The Wednesday Play
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The Wednesday Play

4.5 / 10
1964
9 seasons
205 episodes
Drama

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Catch As Catch Can

    30-09-196475m

    Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

  • Ep 2

    2.A Crack in the Ice

    28-10-196475m

    A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

  • Ep 3

    3.In Camera

    04-11-196485m

    Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.

  • Ep 4

    4.Pale Horse, Pale Rider

    11-11-196485m

    A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Big Breaker

    18-11-196490m

    A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

  • Ep 6

    6.Mr. Douglas

    25-11-196470m

    Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

  • Ep 7

    7.Malatesta

    02-12-196495m

    Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

  • Ep 8

    8.The July Plot

    09-12-196495m

    Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

  • Ep 9

    9.First Love

    16-12-196485m

    A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

  • Ep 10

    10.Tap on the Shoulder

    06-01-196575m

    Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old assoc...

  • Ep 11

    11.Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

    13-01-196575m

    A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.

  • Ep 12

    12.The Navigators

    20-01-196575m

    A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

  • Ep 13

    13.Fable

    27-01-196575m

    In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary aparth...

  • Ep 14

    14.Dan, Dan the Charity Man

    03-02-196575m

    Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

  • Ep 15

    15.Ashes to Ashes

    10-02-196575m

    Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everyt...

  • Ep 16

    16.Wear a Very Big Hat

    17-02-196575m

    A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

  • Ep 17

    17.The Confidence Course

    24-02-196561m

    A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18...

  • Ep 18

    18.Campaign for One

    03-03-196575m

    Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, h...

  • Ep 19

    19.Horror of Darkness

    10-03-196570m

    Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.

  • Ep 20

    20.A Little Temptation

    17-03-196575m
  • Ep 21

    21.Moving On

    24-03-196575m
  • Ep 22

    22.Cat's Cradle

    31-03-196575m
  • Ep 23

    23.Three Clear Sundays

    07-04-196575m
  • Ep 24

    24.The Interior Decorator

    14-04-196575m
  • Ep 25

    25.Auto-Stop

    21-04-196575m
  • Ep 26

    26.The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

    28-04-196575m
  • Ep 27

    27.Cemented with Love

    05-05-196575m
  • Ep 28

    28.A Knight in Tarnished Armour

    12-05-196575m
  • Ep 29

    29.For the West

    26-05-196575m
  • Ep 30

    30.And Did Those Feet?

    02-06-196575m
  • Ep 31

    31.The Man Without Papers

    09-06-196575m
  • Ep 32

    32.The Pistol

    16-06-196575m
  • Ep 33

    33.Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

    23-06-196575m
  • Ep 34

    34.The Seven O'Clock Crunch

    30-06-196575m

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