The Wednesday Play
Season 1
196434 episodes
Episode 1
Catch As Catch Can
Sep 30, 19641h 15m
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
Episode 2
A Crack in the Ice
Oct 28, 19641h 15m
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Episode 3
In Camera
Nov 4, 19641h 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.
Episode 4
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Nov 11, 19641h 25m
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Episode 5
The Big Breaker
Nov 18, 19641h 30m
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Episode 6
Mr. Douglas
Nov 25, 19641h 10m
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Episode 7
Malatesta
Dec 2, 19641h 35m
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Episode 8
The July Plot
Dec 9, 19641h 35m
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Episode 9
First Love
Dec 16, 19641h 25m
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Episode 10
Tap on the Shoulder
Jan 6, 19651h 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.
Episode 11
Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
Jan 13, 19651h 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.
Episode 12
The Navigators
Jan 20, 19651h 15m
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Episode 13
Fable
Jan 27, 19651h 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.
Episode 14
Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Feb 3, 19651h 15m
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Episode 15
Ashes to Ashes
Feb 10, 19651h 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.
Episode 16
Wear a Very Big Hat
Feb 17, 19651h 15m
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Episode 17
The Confidence Course
Feb 24, 19651h 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.
Episode 18
Campaign for One
Mar 3, 19651h 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.
Episode 19
Horror of Darkness
Mar 10, 19651h 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.
Episode 20
A Little Temptation
Mar 17, 19651h 15m
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
Episode 21
Moving On
Mar 24, 19651h 15m
A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
Episode 22
Cat's Cradle
Mar 31, 19651h 15m
A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
Episode 23
Three Clear Sundays
Apr 7, 19651h 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.
Episode 24
The Interior Decorator
Apr 14, 19651h 15m
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
Episode 25
Auto-Stop
Apr 21, 19651h 15m
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
Episode 26
The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
Apr 28, 19651h 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.
Episode 27
Cemented with Love
May 5, 19651h 15m
It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
Episode 28
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
May 12, 19651h 15m
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
Episode 29
For the West
May 26, 19651h 15m
White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
Episode 30
And Did Those Feet?
Jun 2, 19651h 15m
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Episode 31
The Man Without Papers
Jun 9, 19651h 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?
Episode 32
The Pistol
Jun 16, 19651h 15m
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Episode 33
Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
Jun 23, 19651h 15m
Episode 34
The Seven O'Clock Crunch
Jun 30, 19651h 15m
Martin has a mid-life crisis.