ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries 1Season 1 · 1969 · 37 episodesEpisodes1Park PeopleYoung 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.2Bangelstein's BoysA rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.3My Bonnie Jean4MacNeilCarpenter 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.5Cornelius6EmlynMary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.7Tiger Trap in the StreetFed 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.8An Hour of Love #1: The Bind9An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce10The Piano Tuner11Pig in a PokeAn 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.12MachineTwo people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.14The Dirt on Lucy LaneMichael 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.15Moonlight on the HighwayWriting 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.16Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker17SteveSteve'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.18Toys19Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher20Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage21Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake22Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image23Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles24Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued25The Innocent Ceremony26The HauntingYoung 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.27A Measure of Malice28Better Dead29Every Day of the Life ManAn innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.30Salve ReginaIn 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.31TakeoverSuddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.32Two Hundred Miles by Train33The Funeral of Queen Victoria34The Garbler Strategy35Travelling Where?36Two Feet Off the Ground37Fly Away HomeA 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.38The Talking HeadSeason 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6
