Saturday Night Theater was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand presented single feature-length plays on Saturday evenings for over 50 years, having launched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included plays, book adaptations and original dramatizations. For most of its history, programs were 90 minutes long and largely focused on entertainment, such as thrillers, comedies, and mysteries.
Saturday Night Theater was considered the major drama of the week on BBC Radio 4, until it was abandoned as a program in 1996. Shorter plays continued to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday evenings at from 1996 until the relaunch of the channel's schedule in 1996. April 1998 by James Boyle, when one-off dramas were removed from the Saturday evening line-up. Since 1998, the station's main weekly show has been The Saturday Play, a daytime show which lasts 60 to 90 minutes.
There have since been campaigns to bring back the Saturday Night Theater, but against the backdrop of BBC budget cuts, which included the 2010 axing of Radio 4's Friday Play (established in 1998, when the Saturday Night Theater was abolished), any return seems unlikely.
Originally broadcast on 08/21/1965
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