Sunday-Night Play
Season 4
Episodes
1. The Square Peg
2. The Stepfather
3. The Slip
4. A Suitable Case for Treatment
Heavy-drinking Marxist writer Morgan Delt must hold on to his sanity whilst trying to resolve his marital problems.
5. The Big Eat
An eating contest is staged for a new TV show - with fatal results.
6. Ruth
7. The Aspern Papers
A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letter.
8. Libel on a Liar
9. The Sudden Silence
10. Behind the Line
11. Something to Hide
12. The Canterville Ghost
The ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville has terrified visitors to his family home for centuries - but when a family of Americans rent the place, he's the one who's terrified.
13. Parkin's Primitives
14. The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners
15. The Madhouse on Castle Street
A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.
16. Freya of the Seven Isles
17. House on Three Floors
18. The Reward of Silence
19. The Bergonzi Hand
20. The Fall of Mendel Krick
21. The Prisoner
Not to be confused with the 1967 TV series of the same name (also starring Patrick McGoohan), this adaptation of Bridget Boland's 1954 stage play depicts the conflict between a Cardinal (allegedly inspired by real-life Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty) in an unnamed totalitarian state and the Interrogator who tries to force him into a public abjure of his religious convictions.
22. June Fall
Two lonely, unbeautiful people are brought together by a dating agency, and, against all odds, find love.
23. Continuity Man
Don and Roz, a very trendy couple, are expecting a Hollywood film actress as their dinner guest, but find they also have to look after Don's very eccentric and contrary father.
24. For Tea on Sunday
Three girls sharing living accommodation invite their boyfriends for tea on Sunday. One of the young men arrives carrying an ax over his shoulder.
25. Too Late for Mashed Potato
26. The Big Donkey
27. Just You Wait
28. The Holly Road Rig
29. A Little Bit of Gold Said 'Jump'
30. A Deadly Hush
31. A Right Crusader
32. I'm Not Stopping
33. The Fly Sham
34. How to Get Rid of Your Wife
Mild-mannered and unassuming, Gerald Swinney has had enough of his nagging, domineering wife. So he resolves, not to kill her, but simply to "get rid" of her.
35. So Long Charlie
36. Trial Run
37. The Full Chatter
An eccentric teacher dreams of finding fame as a novelist; but everything in his life seems to conspire against him.
38. Dial Rix #7: Skin Deep
39. She's a Free Country
40. You Can't Throw Your Mates
41. Take the Plunge
Douglas has fallen in love with an American girl and is perturbed to find, at the same time, that he really must get a job at last.
42. The Shadow of Mart
About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalised by the dominant mother.
43. The Joker
44. The Sponge Room
45. Night Express
46. Pig in the Middle
47. The Greevey Column
48. Plain Jane
49. Two by the Sea #1: See the Pretty Lights
50. Two by the Sea #2: Wedding Bells
51. The Affair
A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.