ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Season 3
1970 · 33 episodes
1. The Exiles: Jennie
1970-10-10
2. The Exiles: Emma
1970-10-17
3. The Exiles: Zo
1970-10-24
4. Visit from a Stranger
1970-10-30
5. Roll on Four O'Clock
1970-12-19
In a city comprehensive school that has low expectations and ambitions, pupil Peter Latimer does not conform to the macho culture, and is labeled a homosexual. This leads to bullying, both by the pupils and by some of the teachers.
6. The Policeman and the Cook
1970-12-26
Murder mystery in a boarding house based on a Wilkie Collins story.
7. The Dead
1971-01-02
Its Christmas 1901, and a group of Dubliners make their annual call on Granny Morkan's island. As the music and wine flows Gabriel's initial contentment with his wife Gretta changes as he realizes his wife's mind is far away thinking about one of the departed just remembered by all - but which one?
8. Tales of Piccadilly: Behind the Spearmint Sign
1971-01-09
Private investigator Harry is find his life & work involving debt collection and the like boring and humdrum.Then Helen enters his life with an exciting case involving her missing husband.
9. Tales of Piccadilly: A Room Full of Holes
1971-01-16
Pete and Glynis meet in a post office queue for booking long distance phone calls overseas. Their loved ones abroad become less important as they both discover they have a mutual appreciation of Rembrandt.
10. Tales of Piccadilly: The Way Out
1971-01-23
11. Big Soft Nellie
1971-02-21
12. Anna of the Five Towns
1971-02-28
13. Hari-Kari and Sally
1971-03-07
14. The Hotel in Amsterdam
1971-02-14
15. Pandora
1971-03-21
16. The Price
1971-03-28
A family convenes after the death of the father. Two brothers and their mother come to terms with the sacrifices and misunderstandings they have carried since the children left home.
17. Arms and the Man
1971-04-04
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
18. Love Doesn't Grow on Trees
1971-04-11
19. The Silver Collection
1971-05-23
Rachel works in a museum, showing people round the silver collection. Jim, a carpenter, suggests she may be too far removed from real life.
20. The Shopper
1971-05-30
21. Man and Boy
1971-06-06
An unscrupulous financial manipulator is down on his luck, and does not hesitate to involve his long-estranged son in his shady dealings.
22. Paper Roses
1971-06-13
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
23. The Prize
1971-06-20
24. Square
1971-06-27
25. Alice Dancing
1971-07-04
26. Square One
1971-07-10
27. After a Lifetime
1971-07-18
The death of 64-year-old engineer Billy Scully leads his two adult sons to reflect on another side of their father, his lifelong political commitment as an activist and trade unionist.
28. Mr. Pargiter
1971-07-24
29. One More on Top
1971-08-01
30. Hamlet
1971-08-08
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
31. The Chaps
1971-08-14
32. Giants and Ogres
1971-08-22
On learning of the death of his ex-wife, American businessman Sam Dirk arranges to meet Daniel - the son he has never known. Sam's attempts at reconciliation seem doomed as Daniel doesn't seem to want to know his father.
33. Green Julia
1971-08-29
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