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- Series of television plays performed live.
- A filmed theatre production of four of Shakespeare's historical plays condensed down into a trilogy.
- Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
- BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
- Murder mystery, thriller with twists.
- An attractive young girl has the power to stop all kinds of machinery.
- A look at the creation, logistics, and impacts of television worldwide.
- Julien Sorel wants to rise in the world - and will anything in order to do so.
- The Old Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh is called "the heart of Midlothian," and there Effie Deans is held on charges of having murdered her illegitimate son. Her sister, Jeanie Deans, makes a dangerous journey through outlaw-infested regions to London to seek the queen's pardon for Effie.
- Drama serial dealing with the lives of the Broomes, an English theatrical family, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.
- Topical magazine programme with guest celebrities.
- Incapable of earning an honest penny, a kindly English man turns to making counterfeit money instead - so expertly, in fact, that he baffles Scotland Yard for years.
- Programme for children of school age.
- The film takes place in World War One, in the British trenches in March, 1918, just prior to the major German Spring Offensive. It is the interaction between several Officers and enlisted men, including the Company Commander all of whom have been psychologically damaged to varying degrees by their war experiences. Added to that is a newly arrived Officer with no military experience who doesn't understand why things are so.
- The former flame of an Irish landlord visits him, hoping to make a profitable marriage between her impoverished son and the still unwed eldest daughter of the ancient estate.
- Filmed adaption of the play of the same name about Richard II, presenting the same favourable view as in the author's later The Daughter of Time.
- While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
- A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose Trelawny) when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town (Arthur Gower).
- The problems of a group of young lads stuck in borstal.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- The play takes place at Westminster and Oxford during a period of modern time which together with the characters, is purely imaginary.
- The young and liberated Rebekka West wants Pastor Rosmer. Will his pondering and his wife's suicide ruin their relationship?
- The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.
- King Magnus must resort to cunning methods to preserve his throne.
- Todays theme is Till Time Shall End.
- A tramp falls asleep in the woods and dreams of observing a range of insects - each representing various human characteristics. Based on Karel and Josef Capek's satirical, allegorical play.
- The story of Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in the South Seas and was known locally as "Tusitala" - the teller of tales.
- A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father's a bumbling prig, and she's actually in love with Hector, Hesione's husband. This bold mix of farce and tragedy lampoons British society as it blithely sinks towards disaster.