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UK Taped/Live Drama series Guide
BBC:

BBC Sunday Night Theatre (1950-59)     -      BBC The Sunday-Night Play (1960-63)

BBC Play of the Month (BBC1) (1965-83) UK Dramatic Anthology series (established classic plays)

BBC The Wednesday Play* (BBC1) (1964-70) UK Dramatic Anthology series (new plays)*
BBC Play for Today* (BBC1) (1970-84) UK (follow up to The Wednesday Play) (new plays)*
(*some of the above were shot entirely on 16mm film on location to give a realistic feel)
BBC2 Theatre 625  (1964-68) UK Dramatic Anthology series
BBC2 Thirty-Minute Theatre*  (1965-73) UK Dramatic Anthology series

Maigret (BBC)(1960-63) UK Drama series - starring Rupert Davies
King of the River (BBC) (1966-67) UK Drama series - starring Bernard Lee

N.E.T. Playhouse (US title) (1966-68) US compilation of plays produced by BBC

BBC2 Centre Play (1973-77) (BBC Pebble Mill Studios, Birmingham)

BBC2 Second City Firsts(1973-78) (BBC Pebble Mill Studios, Birmingham)

BBC2 Play of the Week (1977-79) UK Dramatic Anthology series

ITV:

ITV Play of the Week (90min) (1956-67) 
ITV Television Playhouse (60min) (1956- 67)      ITV Playhouse (60min) (1967- 83)

 ABC Armchair Theatre (60min) (1955-68)           ATV Weekend Drama (60min) (1960-67) 

ITV Playdate (60min) (1962) (mainly Canadian plays aired during 1962 ITV Actors Strike) 

ITV Saturday Night Theatre (60min) (1969-71) - retitled  ITV Sunday Night Theatre (60min) (1971-74)   

Murder Bag (1957-59) Crime Sheet (1959) No Hiding Place (1959-67)
(ITV/Associated Rediffusion) UK crime drama series starring Raymond Francis

Somerset Maugham Hour (ITV/Associated-Rediffusion)(1960-62) UK Anthology series

Saki (ITV/Granada)(1962) UK Anthology series - Produced by Philip Mackie
Maupassant (ITV/Granada) (1963) UK Anthology series - Produced by Philip Mackie
The Victorians (ITV/Granada)(1963) UK Anthology series - Produced by Philip Mackie
Paris1900 : Feydeau  (ITV/Granada) (1964) UK Anthology series - Produced by Philip Mackie
The Caesars (ITV/Granada) (1968) UK Anthology series - Produced by Philip Mackie

The Villains (ITV/Granada)(1964-65) UK Play series

Thriller   (ITV/ATV- ITC) (1973-77) UK Thriller Anthology series

Dinosaur TV - Save Our Forgotten British Heritage (David Moore)

Tyne Tees Television: ITV in the North-East of England since 1959

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