ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Series 1
196937 episodes
Episode 1
Park People
Jan 11, 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.
Episode 2
Bangelstein's Boys
Jan 18, 1969
A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.
Episode 3
My Bonnie Jean
Jan 25, 1969
Episode 4
MacNeil
Feb 1, 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 women is contradicted by his daughter Mary, who knows him better than he thinks.
Episode 5
Cornelius
Feb 8, 1969
Episode 6
Emlyn
Feb 15, 1969
Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.
Episode 7
Tiger Trap in the Street
Feb 22, 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.
Episode 8
An Hour of Love #1: The Bind
Mar 1, 1969
Episode 9
An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce
Mar 1, 1969
Episode 10
The Piano Tuner
Mar 8, 1969
Episode 11
Pig in a Poke
Mar 15, 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 with increasing voracity, leading to him eventually beating up the young wife and then becoming her afternoon lover.
Episode 12
Machine
Mar 22, 1969
Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.
Episode 14
The Dirt on Lucy Lane
Apr 5, 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 young film star wife. The writer is annoyed about the intrusion into his private life, but his wife sees it as an opportunity.
Episode 15
Moonlight on the Highway
Apr 12, 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 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.
Episode 16
Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker
Apr 19, 1969
Episode 17
Steve
Apr 26, 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 ideals and life.
Episode 18
Toys
May 3, 1969
Episode 19
Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher
May 10, 1969
Episode 20
Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage
May 17, 1969
Episode 21
Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake
May 24, 1969
Episode 22
Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image
May 31, 1969
Episode 23
Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles
Jun 7, 1969
Episode 24
Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued
Jun 14, 1969
Episode 25
The Innocent Ceremony
Jun 21, 1969
Episode 26
The Haunting
Jun 28, 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 fantasy and reality complicates matters.
Episode 27
A Measure of Malice
Jul 5, 1969
Episode 28
Better Dead
Jul 12, 1969
Episode 29
Every Day of the Life Man
Jul 19, 1969
An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.
Episode 30
Salve Regina
Jul 19, 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 is until an astronaut (who was in space when the bomb fell) finds them.
Episode 31
Takeover
Jul 26, 1969
Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.
Episode 32
Two Hundred Miles by Train
Jul 26, 1969
Episode 33
The Funeral of Queen Victoria
Aug 2, 1969
Episode 34
The Garbler Strategy
Aug 2, 1969
Episode 35
Travelling Where?
Aug 9, 1969
Episode 36
Two Feet Off the Ground
Aug 16, 1969
Episode 37
Fly Away Home
Aug 23, 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. Local council bureaucracy hinders all the way.
Episode 38
The Talking Head
Aug 30, 1969