The Wednesday Play
Season 3
196631 episodes
Episode 1
Photo Finish
Sep 21, 19661h 15m
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.
Episode 2
A Hero of our Time
Sep 28, 19661h 15m
A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.
Episode 3
The Frighteners
Oct 12, 19661h 15m
Episode 4
A Piece of Resistance
Oct 19, 19661h 15m
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 to the daughter's charms.
Episode 5
Where the Buffalo Roam
Oct 26, 19661h 15m
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 spirals down to inevitable destruction.
Episode 6
The Head Waiter
Nov 17, 19651h 15m
It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.
Episode 7
Cathy Come Home
Nov 16, 19661h 15m
A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
Episode 8
The Private Tutor
Nov 23, 19661h 15m
A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.
Episode 9
A Pyre for Private James
Nov 30, 19661h 15m
A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.
Episode 10
A Tale of Two Wives
Dec 7, 19661h 15m
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 their husbands, and their paths are about to cross in an unexpected way.
Episode 11
Little Master Mind
Dec 14, 19661h 15m
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.
Episode 12
The Mayfly and the Frog
Dec 21, 1966
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.
Episode 13
Person To Person
Jan 4, 1967
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 one another: their lives, values, and very different sets of relationships.
Episode 14
The Order
Jan 11, 1967
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 members of the resistance.
Episode 15
Everybody's Rich Except Us
Jan 18, 1967
Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.
Episode 16
The Lump
Jan 25, 1967
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 industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.
Episode 17
Who's Going to Take Me On?
Feb 1, 1967
The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.
Episode 18
Death of a Teddy Bear
Feb 8, 1967
Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.
Episode 19
Days in the Trees
Feb 15, 1967
A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.
Episode 20
In Two Minds
Feb 22, 1967
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 and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.
Episode 21
Another Day, Another Dollar
Mar 1, 1967
A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.
Episode 22
Public Inquiry
Mar 8, 1967
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.
Episode 23
A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant
Mar 15, 1967
John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.
Episode 24
A Breach in the Wall
Mar 22, 1967
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 the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches?
Episode 25
The Voices in the Park
Mar 29, 1967
The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
Episode 26
Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness
Apr 5, 1967
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.
Episode 27
A Brilliant Future Behind Him
Apr 12, 1967
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.
Episode 28
Message for Posterity
Apr 19, 1967
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 opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.
Episode 29
A Way with the Ladies
Apr 26, 1967
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 that she would be better off in their tender care.
Episode 30
The Playground
May 3, 1967
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.
Episode 31
Drums Along the Avon
May 10, 1967
A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.