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The Wednesday Play (1964 – 1970)

1964 • 9 seasons • Drama
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The Wednesday Play — Season 6

34 episodes · Aug 6, 1969

1. The Parachute
Aug 6, 1969 · 75m
2. Pitchi Poi
Sep 24, 1969 · 75m
3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
Oct 1, 1969 · 75m

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well of…

4. Patterson O.K.
Oct 8, 1969 · 75m

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

5. The Mark II Wife
Oct 15, 1969 · 75m

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

6. Close the Coalhouse Door
Oct 23, 1969 · 75m

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
Oct 30, 1969 · 75m

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley
Nov 5, 1969 · 75m

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

9. Happy
Nov 12, 1969 · 75m

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

10. There Is Also Tomorrow
Nov 19, 1969 · 75m

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

11. The Compartment/Playmates
Nov 26, 1969 · 75m

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred …

12. Blood of the Lamb
Dec 3, 1969 · 75m

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

13. The Vortex
Dec 10, 1969 · 75m

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

14. It Wasn't Me
Dec 17, 1969 · 75m

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

15. The Season of the Witch
Jan 7, 1970 · 75m

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

16. Mille Miglia
Jan 14, 1970 · 75m
17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane
Jan 21, 1970 · 75m

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Jan 28, 1970 · 75m

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

19. Mad Jack
Feb 4, 1970 · 75m

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

20. Nathan and Tabileth
Feb 11, 1970 · 75m

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

21. The Italian Table
Feb 18, 1970 · 75m

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace
Feb 25, 1970 · 75m

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Mar 4, 1970 · 75m

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

24. The Year of the Sex Olympics
Mar 11, 1970 · 75m
25. No Trams to Lime Street
Mar 18, 1970 · 75m

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law
Mar 25, 1970 · 75m
27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins
Apr 1, 1970 · 75m
28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is
Apr 8, 1970 · 75m
29. Wine of India
Apr 15, 1970

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now mak…

30. Sovereign's Company
Apr 22, 1970

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

31. Party Games
Apr 29, 1970
32. Emma's Time
May 6, 1970

Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

33. Chariot of Fire
May 13, 1970

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

34. Wind Vs. Polygamy
May 27, 1970