ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV ShowReturning Series

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

7.0 / 10
1969
6 seasons
16 episodes

Anthology series of dramatic works.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Park People

    11-01-1969

    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.

  • Ep 2

    2.Bangelstein's Boys

    18-01-1969

    A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.

  • Ep 3

    3.My Bonnie Jean

    25-01-1969
  • Ep 4

    4.MacNeil

    01-02-1969

    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...

  • Ep 5

    5.Cornelius

    08-02-1969
  • Ep 6

    6.Emlyn

    15-02-1969

    Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.

  • Ep 7

    7.Tiger Trap in the Street

    22-02-1969

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.An Hour of Love #1: The Bind

    01-03-1969
  • Ep 9

    9.An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce

    01-03-1969
  • Ep 10

    10.The Piano Tuner

    08-03-1969
  • Ep 11

    11.Pig in a Poke

    15-03-1969

    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 wit...

  • Ep 12

    12.Machine

    22-03-1969

    Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.

  • Ep 14

    14.The Dirt on Lucy Lane

    05-04-1969

    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...

  • Ep 15

    15.Moonlight on the Highway

    12-04-196952m

    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 youn...

  • Ep 16

    16.Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker

    19-04-1969
  • Ep 17

    17.Steve

    26-04-1969

    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 i...

  • Ep 18

    18.Toys

    03-05-1969
  • Ep 19

    19.Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher

    10-05-1969
  • Ep 20

    20.Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage

    17-05-1969
  • Ep 21

    21.Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake

    24-05-1969
  • Ep 22

    22.Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image

    31-05-1969
  • Ep 23

    23.Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles

    07-06-1969
  • Ep 24

    24.Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued

    14-06-1969
  • Ep 25

    25.The Innocent Ceremony

    21-06-1969
  • Ep 26

    26.The Haunting

    28-06-1969

    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 fantas...

  • Ep 27

    27.A Measure of Malice

    05-07-1969
  • Ep 28

    28.Better Dead

    12-07-1969
  • Ep 29

    29.Every Day of the Life Man

    19-07-1969

    An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.

  • Ep 30

    30.Salve Regina

    19-07-1969

    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...

  • Ep 31

    31.Takeover

    26-07-1969

    Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.

  • Ep 32

    32.Two Hundred Miles by Train

    26-07-1969
  • Ep 33

    33.The Funeral of Queen Victoria

    02-08-1969
  • Ep 34

    34.The Garbler Strategy

    02-08-1969
  • Ep 35

    35.Travelling Where?

    09-08-1969
  • Ep 36

    36.Two Feet Off the Ground

    16-08-1969
  • Ep 37

    37.Fly Away Home

    23-08-1969

    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....

  • Ep 38

    38.The Talking Head

    30-08-1969

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