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Genre
  
Drama

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Writers
  
Colin Welland

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Cast
  
Frank Finlay, Colin Welland

Awards
  
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, British Academy Television Writer Award

Nominations
  
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress

Similar
  
Armchair Theatre, Play of the Month, Play for Today, The Wednesday Play, Twelfth Night

ITV Sunday Night Theatre, originally titled ITV Saturday Night Theatre, is a UK television anthology series produced by ITV (TV network), Kestrel Productions, and London Weekend Television (LWT).

200 episodes aired on ITV from 1969-1974, including productions of the plays Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. Other episodes included adaptions of the works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Wilkie Collins, Simon Gray, Sam Shepard, Israel Horovitz, Arthur Miller, August Strindberg, J.B. Priestley, Lanford Wilson, and John Mortimer.

Among its directors were Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Anthony Page, Mike Newell, Fielder Cook, Ted Kotcheff, Peter Wood, and Vivian Matalon.

Notable guest stars included Helen Mirren, Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Paul Scofield, George C. Scott, Laurence Harvey, Ralph Richardson, Diana Rigg, Trevor Howard, Glenda Jackson, Diane Cilento, Alec Guinness, Jane Asher, Martin Sheen, Colleen Dewhurst, Jean Marsh, Shelley Winters, Ian Holm, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Shirley Knight, Ian McKellen, George Sanders and Margaret Whiting.

References

ITV Sunday Night Theatre Wikipedia


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