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The Wednesday Play (1964) is a drama web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch The Wednesday Play online in HD.

The Wednesday Play — Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Sydney Newman

The Wednesday Play — Series Details

The Wednesday Play — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Catch As Catch Can (1964-09-30) — Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
• E2: A Crack in the Ice (1964-10-28) — A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
• E3: In Camera (1964-11-04) — 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.
• E4: Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1964-11-11) — A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
• E5: The Big Breaker (1964-11-18) — A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
• E6: Mr. Douglas (1964-11-25) — Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
• E7: Malatesta (1964-12-02) — Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
• E8: The July Plot (1964-12-09) — Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
• E9: First Love (1964-12-16) — A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
• E10: Tap on the Shoulder (1965-01-06) — 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
• E11: Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word… (1965-01-13) — 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.
• E12: The Navigators (1965-01-20) — A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
• E13: Fable (1965-01-27) — 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
• E14: Dan, Dan the Charity Man (1965-02-03) — Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
• E15: Ashes to Ashes (1965-02-10) — 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
• E16: Wear a Very Big Hat (1965-02-17) — A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
• E17: The Confidence Course (1965-02-24) — 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
• E18: Campaign for One (1965-03-03) — 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
• E19: Horror of Darkness (1965-03-10) — 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.
• E20: A Little Temptation (1965-03-17) — A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
• E21: Moving On (1965-03-24) — A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
• E22: Cat's Cradle (1965-03-31) — A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
• E23: Three Clear Sundays (1965-04-07) — A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guar
• E24: The Interior Decorator (1965-04-14) — An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
• E25: Auto-Stop (1965-04-21) — A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
• E26: The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler (1965-04-28) — An account of the shocking Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920s, where two working-class Italian immigrants to the US were executed after seven years on Death Row.
• E27: Cemented with Love (1965-05-05) — It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
• E28: A Knight in Tarnished Armour (1965-05-12) — Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
• E29: For the West (1965-05-26) — White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
• E30: And Did Those Feet? (1965-06-02) — Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
• E31: The Man Without Papers (1965-06-09) — Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London – will his now-prosperous former friends help him?
• E32: The Pistol (1965-06-16) — A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• E33: Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears (1965-06-23)
• E34: The Seven O'Clock Crunch (1965-06-30) — Martin has a mid-life crisis.

Season 2

• E1: The War Game (1965-10-06) — Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Gove
• E2: Alice (1965-10-13) — In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity.
• E3: The Girl Who Loved Robots (1965-10-20) — Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.
• E4: A Designing Woman (1965-10-27) — Milly has been at it again.
• E5: Up The Junction (1965-11-03) — Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover famil
• E6: The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (1965-11-10) — An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
• E7: The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965-11-17) — A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership wil
• E8: Tomorrow, Just You Wait (1965-11-24) — Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
• E9: The Bond (1965-12-01) — Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
• E10: Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965-12-08) — It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the
• E11: Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton (1965-12-15) — Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
• E12: The Coming Out Party (1965-12-22) — A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.
• E13: The Bone Yard (1966-01-05) — Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and
• E14: A Man On Her Back (1966-01-12) — John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladie
• E15: Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero (1966-01-19) — Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expos
• E16: Calf Love (1966-01-26) — A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.
• E17: Silent Song (1966-02-02) — Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
• E18: Who's A Good Boy Then? (1966-02-09) — Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.
• E19: A Game – Like – Only A Game (1966-02-16) — Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.
• E20: Why Aren't You Famous? (1966-02-23) — A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.
• E21: Macready's Gala (1966-03-02) — The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
• E22: A Walk In The Sea (1966-03-09) — Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for
• E23: Boy In The Smoke (1966-03-16)
• E24: Barlowe of the Car Park (1966-03-23) — We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.
• E25: The Portsmouth Defence (1966-03-30) — After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire again
• E26: Pity About The Abbey (1966-04-06) — Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
• E27: The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966-04-13) — Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
• E28: The Snow Ball (1966-04-20) — A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.
• E29: A Cheery Soul (1966-04-27) — When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.
• E30: The Connoiseur (1966-05-04) — A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.
• E31: The Retreat (1966-05-11) — A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.
• E32: Ape and Essence (1966-05-18) — Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.
• E33: Toddler on the Run (1966-05-25) — Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.
• E34: The Executioner (1966-06-01) — Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
• E35: Way Off Beat (1966-06-08) — Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
• E36: A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel (1966-06-15) — A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one
• E37: Cock, Hen and Counting Pit (1966-06-22) — A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

Season 3

• E1: Photo Finish (1966-09-21) — Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.
• E2: A Hero of our Time (1966-09-28) — A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.
• E3: The Frighteners (1966-10-12)
• E4: A Piece of Resistance (1966-10-19) — A retired colonel is enduring the invasion of the Channel Islands when his household is disrupted by the arrival of a German officer who is surprisingly civilised and susceptible t
• E5: Where the Buffalo Roam (1966-10-26) — A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spiral
• E6: The Head Waiter (1965-11-17) — It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.
• E7: Cathy Come Home (1966-11-16) — A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
• E8: The Private Tutor (1966-11-23) — A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.
• E9: A Pyre for Private James (1966-11-30) — A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.
• E10: A Tale of Two Wives (1966-12-07) — A tale of two wives: one a blonde living in a chic Parisian apartment and the other a brunette with a smart mews flat in London. Both are young, attractive, and separated from thei
• E11: Little Master Mind (1966-12-14) — The Barking brothers dote on their parents and do a lot of good work for charity but the police are determined to bring them to account.
• E12: The Mayfly and the Frog (1966-12-21) — Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.
• E13: Person To Person (1967-01-04) — A twenty-two-year-old architecture student appears at the door of a divorced thirty-something journalist and asks to use her telephone. They talk, and slowly begin to understand on
• E14: The Order (1967-01-11) — An inspector in Austria investigates the death, over twenty years earlier, of a teenage girl who fell into a canal and drowned trying to evade capture by a policeman searching for
• E15: Everybody's Rich Except Us (1967-01-18) — Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.
• E16: The Lump (1967-01-25) — Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building indust
• E17: Who's Going to Take Me On? (1967-02-01) — The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.
• E18: Death of a Teddy Bear (1967-02-08) — Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.
• E19: Days in the Trees (1967-02-15) — A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man – her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.
• E20: In Two Minds (1967-02-22) — In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors an
• E21: Another Day, Another Dollar (1967-03-01) — A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.
• E22: Public Inquiry (1967-03-08) — A tired signalman waits to be relieved. However, there are four trains to be guided through and some of the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly.
• E23: A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant (1967-03-15) — John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.
• E24: A Breach in the Wall (1967-03-22) — A parish church is undergoing restoration, when a coffin bearing the seal of Thomas à Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, is discovered. Will the discovery help unite th
• E25: The Voices in the Park (1967-03-29) — The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
• E26: Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness (1967-04-05) — A young man, newly dismissed from his job, returns home to a party where the other partygoers seem determined that he and a female flatmate should go on holiday together.
• E27: A Brilliant Future Behind Him (1967-04-12) — A minor driving offence is being tried in court, but the case involves a rich young heiress, a dope peddler, and a Shadow Cabinet member.
• E28: Message for Posterity (1967-04-19) — An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission – to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposi
• E29: A Way with the Ladies (1967-04-26) — Josh and Maisie come to Italy after the passing of the old lady who had been living in their sapre room but are soon drawn to another old lady, and try to convince her daughter tha
• E30: The Playground (1967-05-03) — Walter has three children, by his estranged wife and his current partner, so he is far too busy to get a job, preferring to spend his time in the playground.
• E31: Drums Along the Avon (1967-05-10) — A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.

Season 4

• E1: Sleeping Dog (1967-10-11) — A black barman upsets a colonial Governor who has just retired and returned to England. He locks the barman in the cellar and treats him like an animal.
• E2: Wanted: Single Gentleman (1967-10-18) — The world of two simple-minded men living with a woman is disrupted by a new lodger.
• E3: A Black Candle for Mrs. Gogarty (1967-10-25) — Mrs. Gogarty agrees to pay off a stranger's debt to a loan-shark, on condition that he marry her.
• E4: The Devil a Monk Would Be (1967-11-08) — A community of monks decides to solve its financial predicament through the sale of a potent cure for rheumatism made from rare herbs and one hundred per cent proof alcohol.
• E5: Fall of the Goat (1967-11-15) — A husband decides to impose a novel and outrageous arrangement on his wife.
• E6: The Profile of a Gentleman (1967-11-22) — A gentleman thief puts together a gang to commit a perfectly executed robbery.
• E7: Dial Rudolph Valentino One One (1967-11-29) — It is the morning of a notorious bachelor's wedding in this tale of marriage, friendship and non-communication between parents and children.
• E8: Kippers and Curtains (1967-12-06) — The Honourable Audrey is the latest arrival at a boarding-house in a working-class area of London.
• E9: Death of a Private (1967-12-13) — An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.
• E10: An Officer of the Court (1967-12-20) — Incompetent and corrupt defence barrister Plantagenet King dreams of a grand venture into commercial law.
• E11: The Fat of the Land (1967-12-27) — Five distinguished guests spend Christmas at a health farm.
• E12: Toggle (1968-01-03) — An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.
• E13: House of Character (1968-01-10) — Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a table-top model in an advertising
• E14: Jamie, On a Flying Visit (1968-01-17) — Jamie's flying visit is a somewhat sentimental one. Because Jamie is calling to see Lois, an old and dear flame he hasn't met since they left Oxford ten years ago. He is still the
• E15: Monsieur Barnett (1968-01-24) — An ageing millionaire reflects on his life while being pampered at a Parisian hairdressing salon.
• E16: The Drummer and the Bloke (1968-01-31) — An industrial dispute takes place in an isolated quarry while the Drummer and the Bloke look on.
• E17: Rebel in the Grave (1968-02-07) — A country squire and his late friend's nephew argue over the dead man's artistic legacy.
• E18: Coincidence (1968-02-21) — Three men who have avoided one another since violent events five years before meet unexpectedly one evening.
• E19: Light Blue (1968-04-03) — An African-American trumpet player spends a few hours in an English provincial town, with a girl who happens to be white. As a result, each learns to care for the other, not as a "
• E20: Let's Murder Vivaldi (1968-04-10) — Two couples, one fights all the time and the others let tensions in their relationship build until one stabs the other, the ones that fight end up saying oh well let's murder Vival
• E21: The Golden Vision (1968-04-17) — Story of a group of manual workers who live and breath watching Everton FC. The gang travel to London, to watch the team play Arsenal, at Highbury. Vince discovers his wife has gon
• E22: The Man Behind You (1968-05-01) — The quiet head of a film company's dispatch department reacts violently to a practical joke.
• E23: Infidelity Took Place (1968-05-08) — A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.
• E98: Episode 98
• E99: Episode 99

Season 5

• E1: Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It (1968-08-21) — When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
• E2: Spoiled (1968-08-28) — A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
• E3: The Gorge (1968-09-04) — A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.
• E4: A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka (1968-09-11) — A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.
• E5: Charlie (1968-09-18) — James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
• E6: Anyone For Tennis? (1968-09-25) — Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?
• E7: Mooney and his Caravans (1968-10-02) — A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.
• E8: The Lower Largo Sequence (1968-10-09) — A man seeks his inner island.
• E9: Hello, Good Evening and Welcome (1968-10-16) — A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".
• E10: A Bit of Crucifixion, Father (1968-10-23) — A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
• E11: Nothing Will be The Same (1968-10-30) — A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.
• E12: A Beast With Two Backs (1968-11-06) — An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling sho
• E13: On the Eve of Publication (1968-11-27) — An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.
• E14: The Fabulous Frump (1969-01-08) — A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.
• E15: Smoke Screen (1969-01-15) — A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.
• E16: Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter (1969-01-21) — After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.
• E17: The Apprentices (1969-01-29) — A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.
• E18: Birthday (1969-02-05) — A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.
• E19: The Big Flame (1969-02-12) — Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
• E20: A Serpent in Putney (1969-02-19) — An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.
• E21: Bami Powl Zapl (1969-03-05) — A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
• E22: Cathy Come Home (1969-03-28) — A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
• E23: Sling Your Hook (1969-04-02) — A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
• E24: A Child and a Half (1969-04-09) — A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.
• E25: Son of Man (1969-04-16) — Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemi
• E26: The Exiles (1969-04-23) — Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.
• E27: Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (1969-04-30) — The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.

Season 6

• E1: The Parachute (1969-08-06)
• E2: Pitchi Poi (1969-09-24)
• E3: The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel (1969-10-01) — 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
• E4: Patterson O.K. (1969-10-08) — A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
• E5: The Mark II Wife (1969-10-15) — A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
• E6: Close the Coalhouse Door (1969-10-23) — The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
• E7: The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury (1969-10-30) — A schoolmaster takes to drink.
• E8: All Out for Kangaroo Valley (1969-11-05) — Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
• E9: Happy (1969-11-12) — The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
• E10: There Is Also Tomorrow (1969-11-19) — The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
• E11: The Compartment/Playmates (1969-11-26) — 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
• E12: Blood of the Lamb (1969-12-03) — 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.
• E13: The Vortex (1969-12-10) — Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
• E14: It Wasn't Me (1969-12-17) — A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
• E15: The Season of the Witch (1970-01-07) — A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
• E16: Mille Miglia (1970-01-14)
• E17: The Hunting of Lionel Crane (1970-01-21) — An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
• E18: Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred (1970-01-28) — A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
• E19: Mad Jack (1970-02-04) — Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
• E20: Nathan and Tabileth (1970-02-11) — A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
• E21: The Italian Table (1970-02-18) — 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.
• E22: The Boy Who Wanted Peace (1970-02-25) — Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
• E23: The Cellar and the Almond Tree (1970-03-04) — 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 Stalin
• E24: The Year of the Sex Olympics (1970-03-11)
• E25: No Trams to Lime Street (1970-03-18) — Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
• E26: To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law (1970-03-25)
• E27: To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins (1970-04-01)
• E28: To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is (1970-04-08)
• E29: Wine of India (1970-04-15) — 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
• E30: Sovereign's Company (1970-04-22) — 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 lif
• E31: Party Games (1970-04-29)
• E32: Emma's Time (1970-05-06) — Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
• E33: Chariot of Fire (1970-05-13) — A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
• E34: Wind Vs. Polygamy (1970-05-27)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does The Wednesday Play have? 9 season(s) with 207 episodes.

Who created The Wednesday Play? Sydney Newman.

Where can I watch The Wednesday Play? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.