The Wednesday Play
The Wednesday Play: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

September 30, 1964

Episodes

34 episodes

The Wednesday Play

Season 1

Episodes

1. Catch As Catch Can

September 30, 1964
75 min

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

2. A Crack in the Ice

October 28, 1964
75 min

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

3. In Camera

November 4, 1964
85 min

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.

4. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

November 11, 1964
85 min

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

5. The Big Breaker

November 18, 1964
90 min

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

6. Mr. Douglas

November 25, 1964
70 min

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

7. Malatesta

December 2, 1964
95 min

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

8. The July Plot

December 9, 1964
95 min

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

9. First Love

December 16, 1964
85 min

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

10. Tap on the Shoulder

January 6, 1965
75 min

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.

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

January 13, 1965
75 min

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.

12. The Navigators

January 20, 1965
75 min

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

13. Fable

January 27, 1965
75 min

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.

14. Dan, Dan the Charity Man

February 3, 1965
75 min

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

15. Ashes to Ashes

February 10, 1965
75 min

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.

16. Wear a Very Big Hat

February 17, 1965
75 min

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

17. The Confidence Course

February 24, 1965
61 min

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.

18. Campaign for One

March 3, 1965
75 min

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.

19. Horror of Darkness

March 10, 1965
70 min

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.

20. A Little Temptation

March 17, 1965
75 min

21. Moving On

March 24, 1965
75 min

22. Cat's Cradle

March 31, 1965
75 min

23. Three Clear Sundays

April 7, 1965
75 min

24. The Interior Decorator

April 14, 1965
75 min

25. Auto-Stop

April 21, 1965
75 min

26. The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

April 28, 1965
75 min

27. Cemented with Love

May 5, 1965
75 min

28. A Knight in Tarnished Armour

May 12, 1965
75 min

29. For the West

May 26, 1965
75 min

30. And Did Those Feet?

June 2, 1965
75 min

31. The Man Without Papers

June 9, 1965
75 min

32. The Pistol

June 16, 1965
75 min

33. Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

June 23, 1965
75 min

34. The Seven O'Clock Crunch

June 30, 1965
75 min
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