ITV Saturday Night Theatre - Season 1

1. Park People

Aired: 1/11/1969

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.

2. Bangelstein's Boys

Aired: 1/18/1969

A rugby team's annual tour descends into chaos when Tommy and Jack have a fall out with their brother-in-law.

3. My Bonnie Jean

Aired: 1/25/1969

4. MacNeil

Aired: 2/1/1969

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.

5. Cornelius

Aired: 2/8/1969

6. Emlyn

Aired: 2/15/1969

Mary MacNeil drifts into a complex relationship with a Welsh barrister.

7. Tiger Trap in the Street

Aired: 2/22/1969

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.

8. An Hour of Love #1: The Bind

Aired: 3/1/1969

9. An Hour of Love #2: Anatomy of a Divorce

Aired: 3/1/1969

10. The Piano Tuner

Aired: 3/8/1969

11. Pig in a Poke

Aired: 3/15/1969

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.

12. Machine

Aired: 3/22/1969

Two people (one rich, one poor) have failing kidneys, an expensive kidney machine would save them.

14. The Dirt on Lucy Lane

Aired: 4/5/1969

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.

15. Moonlight on the Highway

Aired: 4/12/1969

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.

16. Hazel and Her New Gas Cooker

Aired: 4/19/1969

17. Steve

Aired: 4/26/1969

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.

18. Toys

Aired: 5/3/1969

19. Rogues Gallery: The Bright Eyed Body Snatcher

Aired: 5/10/1969

20. Rogues Gallery: The Wicked Stage

Aired: 5/17/1969

21. Rogues Gallery: The Timorous Rake

Aired: 5/24/1969

22. Rogues Gallery: The Fearful Image

Aired: 5/31/1969

23. Rogues Gallery: A Bed Full of Miracles

Aired: 6/7/1969

24. Rogues Gallery: The Prude Pursued

Aired: 6/14/1969

25. The Innocent Ceremony

Aired: 6/21/1969

26. The Haunting

Aired: 6/28/1969

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.

27. A Measure of Malice

Aired: 7/5/1969

28. Better Dead

Aired: 7/12/1969

29. Every Day of the Life Man

Aired: 7/19/1969

An innocent man is wrongly picked from an identity parade after a factory robbery because he is black.

30. Salve Regina

Aired: 7/19/1969

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.

31. Takeover

Aired: 7/26/1969

Suddenly and inexplicably Mother and Father find that their previously well behaved adolescent sons are completely unmanageable, reversing the standard family dynamics.

32. Two Hundred Miles by Train

Aired: 7/26/1969

33. The Funeral of Queen Victoria

Aired: 8/2/1969

34. The Garbler Strategy

Aired: 8/2/1969

35. Travelling Where?

Aired: 8/9/1969

36. Two Feet Off the Ground

Aired: 8/16/1969

37. Fly Away Home

Aired: 8/23/1969

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.

38. The Talking Head

Aired: 8/30/1969