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The Wednesday Play.

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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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Created by Sydney Newman

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Season 1.

Catch As Catch Can

1964-09-30 · 1h 15m

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

A Crack in the Ice

1964-10-28 · 1h 15m

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

In Camera

1964-11-04 · 1h 25m

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.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

1964-11-11 · 1h 25m

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

The Big Breaker

1964-11-18 · 1h 30m

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

Mr. Douglas

1964-11-25 · 1h 10m

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

Malatesta

1964-12-02 · 1h 35m

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

The July Plot

1964-12-09 · 1h 35m

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

First Love

1964-12-16 · 1h 25m

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

Tap on the Shoulder

1965-01-06 · 1h 15m

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 associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.

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

1965-01-13 · 1h 15m

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.

The Navigators

1965-01-20 · 1h 15m

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

Fable

1965-01-27 · 1h 15m

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 apartheid South Africa.

Dan, Dan the Charity Man

1965-02-03 · 1h 15m

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

Ashes to Ashes

1965-02-10 · 1h 15m

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, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.

Wear a Very Big Hat

1965-02-17 · 1h 15m

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

The Confidence Course

1965-02-24 · 1h 1m

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 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.

Campaign for One

1965-03-03 · 1h 15m

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, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.

Horror of Darkness

1965-03-10 · 1h 10m

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.

A Little Temptation

1965-03-17 · 1h 15m

A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.

Moving On

1965-03-24 · 1h 15m

A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.

Cat's Cradle

1965-03-31 · 1h 15m

A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.

Three Clear Sundays

1965-04-07 · 1h 15m

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 guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.

The Interior Decorator

1965-04-14 · 1h 15m

An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.

Auto-Stop

1965-04-21 · 1h 15m

A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.

The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

1965-04-28 · 1h 15m

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.

Cemented with Love

1965-05-05 · 1h 15m

It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

1965-05-12 · 1h 15m

Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.

For the West

1965-05-26 · 1h 15m

White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo

And Did Those Feet?

1965-06-02 · 1h 15m

Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.

The Man Without Papers

1965-06-09 · 1h 15m

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?

The Pistol

1965-06-16 · 1h 15m

A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

1965-06-23 · 1h 15m

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The Seven O'Clock Crunch

1965-06-30 · 1h 15m

Martin has a mid-life crisis.

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