ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)

★ 7.0 50m/ep Latest: S6 E09

Anthology series of dramatic works.

First aired: January 11, 1969

Seasons

Series 1 · 37 episodes
Season 2 · 50 episodes
Season 3 · 33 episodes
Season 4 · 30 episodes
Season 5 · 32 episodes
Season 6 · 9 episodes

Series 1 Episodes

1. Park People
Young Frank Brady falls in love with a woman he has only seen from a distance. He enlists his friend Peg to help him win the woman's love.
2. Bangelstein's Boys
A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.
3. My Bonnie Jean
4. MacNeil
Carpenter and widower MacNeil takes a blunt approach in making advances to lady executive Miss Saville who works in the same firm as himself. His belief in his instincts regarding women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.
5. Cornelius
6. Emlyn
Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.
7. Tiger Trap in the Street
Fed up with having his car stolen, Williams decides it's time to take the law into his own hands, but there is a price to pay.
8. An Hour of Love #1: The Bind
9. An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce
10. The Piano Tuner
11. Pig in a Poke
An effete television producer and his beautiful wife move into an old terraced house.In the basement is a sitting tenant they cannot move.The tenant starts to invade their life with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.
12. Machine
Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.
14. The Dirt on Lucy Lane
Michael Vint, an embittered hack reporter from a Sunday newspaper, is sent down into the country to find a story in the love life of an aging has-been writer and his new glamorous young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.
15. Moonlight on the Highway
Writing for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
16. Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker
17. Steve
Steve's maverick personality costs him his teaching job. He drops out of conventional society and earns a living by roguish means. Then he meets Paula, who makes him question his ideals and life.
18. Toys
19. Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher
20. Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage
21. Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake
22. Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image
23. Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles
24. Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued
25. The Innocent Ceremony
26. The Haunting
Young Cathy asks her teacher Kate for help with her father Rolf who is still withdrawn and depressed after his wife's fatal car crash sometime ago. However, the line between fantasy and reality complicates matters.
27. A Measure of Malice
28. Better Dead
29. Every Day of the Life Man
An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.
30. Salve Regina
In the basement of a department store after the last bomb of World War Three. A bag lady, calls herself ' the queen ' and exercises complete authority over two befuddled men. That is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.
31. Takeover
Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.
32. Two Hundred Miles by Train
33. The Funeral of Queen Victoria
34. The Garbler Strategy
35. Travelling Where?
36. Two Feet Off the Ground
37. Fly Away Home
A couple return from their holiday to find their house burnt down. Having no insurance, the husband has no option but to rebuild it himself with the help of local handyman Arthur. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.
38. The Talking Head