The Wednesday Play
Season 2
196537 episodes
Episode 1
The War Game
Oct 6, 19651h 15m
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 Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Government that it was too horrifying for TV. It premiered at a London cinema six months later and was shown at film festivals, winning a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. It then won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Episode 2
Alice
Oct 13, 19651h 15m
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. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
Episode 3
The Girl Who Loved Robots
Oct 20, 19651h 15m
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.
Episode 4
A Designing Woman
Oct 27, 19651h 15m
Milly has been at it again.
Episode 5
Up The Junction
Nov 3, 19651h 15m
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 family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.
Episode 6
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Nov 10, 19651h 15m
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Episode 7
The End of Arthur's Marriage
Nov 17, 19651h 15m
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 will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.
Episode 8
Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Nov 24, 19651h 15m
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
Episode 9
The Bond
Dec 1, 19651h 15m
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.
Episode 10
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Dec 8, 19651h 15m
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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 rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.
Episode 11
Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton
Dec 15, 19651h 15m
Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
Episode 12
The Coming Out Party
Dec 22, 19651h 15m
A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.
Episode 13
The Bone Yard
Jan 5, 19661h 15m
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 the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?
Episode 14
A Man On Her Back
Jan 12, 19661h 15m
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 ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.
Episode 15
Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero
Jan 19, 19661h 15m
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 expose the venture.
Episode 16
Calf Love
Jan 26, 19661h 15m
A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.
Episode 17
Silent Song
Feb 2, 19661h 15m
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
Episode 18
Who's A Good Boy Then?
Feb 9, 19661h 15m
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.
Episode 19
A Game - Like - Only A Game
Feb 16, 19661h 15m
Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.
Episode 20
Why Aren't You Famous?
Feb 23, 19661h 15m
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.
Episode 21
Macready's Gala
Mar 2, 19661h 15m
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
Episode 22
A Walk In The Sea
Mar 9, 19661h 15m
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 a building scheme, with tragic consequences.
Episode 23
Boy In The Smoke
Mar 16, 19661h 15m
Episode 24
Barlowe of the Car Park
Mar 23, 19661h 15m
We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.
Episode 25
The Portsmouth Defence
Mar 30, 1966
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 against him.
Episode 26
Pity About The Abbey
Apr 6, 1966
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
Episode 27
The Big Man Coughed and Died
Apr 13, 1966
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
Episode 28
The Snow Ball
Apr 20, 1966
A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.
Episode 29
A Cheery Soul
Apr 27, 1966
When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.
Episode 30
The Connoiseur
May 4, 1966
A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.
Episode 31
The Retreat
May 11, 1966
A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.
Episode 32
Ape and Essence
May 18, 1966
Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.
Episode 33
Toddler on the Run
May 25, 1966
Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.
Episode 34
The Executioner
Jun 1, 1966
Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
Episode 35
Way Off Beat
Jun 8, 1966
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Episode 36
A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
Jun 15, 1966
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.
Episode 37
Cock, Hen and Counting Pit
Jun 22, 1966
A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.