The Wednesday Play
Season 5
196827 episodes
Episode 1
Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It
Aug 21, 19681h 15m
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
Episode 2
Spoiled
Aug 28, 19681h 15m
A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
Episode 3
The Gorge
Sep 4, 19681h 15m
A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.
Episode 4
A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka
Sep 11, 19681h 15m
A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.
Episode 5
Charlie
Sep 18, 1968
James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
Episode 6
Anyone For Tennis?
Sep 25, 1968
Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?
Episode 7
Mooney and his Caravans
Oct 2, 1968
A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.
Episode 8
The Lower Largo Sequence
Oct 9, 1968
A man seeks his inner island.
Episode 9
Hello, Good Evening and Welcome
Oct 16, 1968
A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".
Episode 10
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
Oct 23, 1968
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
Episode 11
Nothing Will be The Same
Oct 30, 1968
A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.
Episode 12
A Beast With Two Backs
Nov 6, 1968
An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
Episode 13
On the Eve of Publication
Nov 27, 1968
An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.
Episode 14
The Fabulous Frump
Jan 8, 1969
A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.
Episode 15
Smoke Screen
Jan 15, 1969
A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.
Episode 16
Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter
Jan 21, 1969
After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.
Episode 17
The Apprentices
Jan 29, 1969
A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.
Episode 18
Birthday
Feb 5, 1969
A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.
Episode 19
The Big Flame
Feb 12, 1969
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
Episode 20
A Serpent in Putney
Feb 19, 1969
An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.
Episode 21
Bami Powl Zapl
Mar 5, 1969
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
Episode 22
Cathy Come Home
Mar 28, 1969
A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
Episode 23
Sling Your Hook
Apr 2, 1969
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
Episode 24
A Child and a Half
Apr 9, 1969
A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.
Episode 25
Son of Man
Apr 16, 1969
Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.
Episode 26
The Exiles
Apr 23, 1969
Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.
Episode 27
Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage
Apr 30, 1969
The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.