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Issue Details: First known date: 1943... 1943 Saturday Night Theatre
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A BBC radio anthology series broadcasting (usually) ninety-minute radio plays on Saturday nights: the plays were usually genre focused (crime, mysteries, or comedies) and included original works and adaptations of stage plays and novels.

Notes

  • Only works by Australian authors, adapted from Australian-written works, or set in Australia are individually indexed on AustLit.

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form y separately published work icon I Killed the Count Martyn C. Webster , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1945 6432125 1945 single work radio play crime humour

Radio play adaptation of Alec Coppel's play.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1945
form y separately published work icon Once a Crook London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1948 11625032 1948 single work radio play London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1948
form y separately published work icon Sister Mulligatawny Evadne Price , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1949 11624959 1949 single work radio play London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1949
form y separately published work icon No Other Tiger Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1952 6430418 1952 single work radio play thriller

No Other Tiger was set in India, where a man looking to purchase precious gems becomes entangled in the hunt for a man-eating tiger.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1952
form y separately published work icon The Trouble-Makers The Troublemakers Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1953 6430606 1953 single work radio play crime

Based on American writer George Bellak's play The Trouble-Makers, about the murder of a campus newspaper editor by his fellow students and the ensuing 'witch hunt'.

Many sources date Bellak's play to 1956, but it was first performed in London in 1952 (see, for example, The Times, 18 August 1952, p.8).

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1953
form y separately published work icon Murderer at Large Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1953 6430809 1953 single work radio play crime detective

Based on Horler's novel, his second featuring the private detective H. Emp (nicknamed 'Rope'), but there is little information available on the plot.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1953
form y separately published work icon Who Killed Rikhjovic? Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 6430381 1954 single work radio play mystery crime

'The play opens on the centre court at Wimbledon where Dmitri Rikhjovic, of Hungary, and Anthony Hargraves, of Australia, are fighting out the semi-final of the men’s singles. Rikhovic has a comfortable lead of two games and is just about to deliver what will probably be his decisive service in the third.

'The first ball is a fault. A murmur of surprise goes up from the crowd. Before Rikhjovic can serve a second ball, he collapses. A doctor is quickly on the scene, but it is too late—the tennis star is dead. The doctor, obviously disturbed, suggests that the police should be called, for it seems probable that Dmitri Rikhjovic has died of cyanide poisoning.

'This is the problem confronting the police: how could a man be poisoned while on a tennis court, with thousands of eyes focused on him?'

Source: ABC Weekly, 29 October 1955, p.20.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954
form y separately published work icon A Shilling for Candles Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 6430966 1954 single work radio play crime detective

An adaptation of one of Josephine Tey's Inspector Alan Grant novels, about a young man on the run, trying to establish his innocence in the murder of a young woman.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954
form y separately published work icon The Prince of Plunder Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 6431047 1954 single work radio play crime thriller

A Scottish professor is drawn into a world of espionage.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954
form y separately published work icon Witch Hunt Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954 6431271 1954 single work radio play thriller

Little is known about this title, including whether it (like many of Rienits's other scripts for Saturday Night Theatre) was based on another text.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1954
form y separately published work icon Return of a Hero Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1955 6431409 1955 single work radio play thriller

Estridge's novel, on which this radio play is based, is concerned with a man, the sole survivor of a desert mission, who is proclaimed a hero by the public, but scratches away the fame to reveal an uglier truth.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1955
form y separately published work icon Need a Body Tell? Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1956 6431526 1956 single work radio play crime

Little is known about this work's plot.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1956
form y separately published work icon Holiday Task Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1956 6431603 1956 single work radio play

Little is known about the plot of this radio drama, including whether it (like many of Rienits's other scripts for Saturday Night Theatre) was based on another text.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1956
form y separately published work icon The Map-maker Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1957 6431824 1957 single work radio play

A radio play about Matthew Flinders.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1957
form y separately published work icon Rum Rebellion Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958 6431752 1958 single work radio play historical fiction

A radio play based on the rebellion against Governor William Bligh.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958
form y separately published work icon The Celebrated Mr Barrington Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958 6431932 1958 single work radio play crime historical fiction

A radio play based around George Barrington, pickpocket and convict.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958
form y separately published work icon Doubly Dead Rex Rienits , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958 7946795 1958 single work radio play

Nothing is currently known of the plot of this radio play.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958
form y separately published work icon A Time of the Serpent Bruce Stewart , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958 8139840 1958 single work radio play historical fiction

'A play by Bruce Stewart based on the legend of Mrs. Fraser a story they tell in Queensland'.

Source:

Radio Times, 17 January 1958, p.54.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1958
form y separately published work icon Murder in Melbourne Dulcie Gray , United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1961 8162654 1961 single work radio play crime

'Richard Quayle, a pilot for an Australian airline, arrives in Melbourne to ask his girl-friend, Anna Matheson, to marry him. He finds her dead in the bedroom of a squalid little hotel...'

Source:

Radio Times, 16 February 1961, p.12.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1961
form y separately published work icon It's the Geography That Counts Raymond Bowers , London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1962 21656298 1962 single work radio play

Marshall Arnitt, a racing-car driver, is spending the weekend with his mother in the south of England, when his foster brother takes out his car and hits a cyclist on the Scottish border. Marshall agrees to take the blame for the accident, and James finds that their mother has been murdered, and Marshall has engineered the situation to make James look guilty.

London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1962
form y separately published work icon The Attorney General United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1962 7951726 1962 single work radio play historical fiction

'Australia, 1830. A brutal and cold-blooded murder of a coloured man by a young English officer forges a chain of violence and intrigue, and leads to a dramatic fight for justice.'

Source: Radio Times, 8 March 1962, p.22.

United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1962

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