The Wednesday Play
Season 6
196934 episodes
Episode 1
The Parachute
Aug 6, 19691h 15m
Episode 2
Pitchi Poi
Sep 24, 19691h 15m
Episode 3
The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
Oct 1, 19691h 15m
A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.
Episode 4
Patterson O.K.
Oct 8, 19691h 15m
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
Episode 5
The Mark II Wife
Oct 15, 19691h 15m
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
Episode 6
Close the Coalhouse Door
Oct 23, 19691h 15m
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
Episode 7
The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
Oct 30, 19691h 15m
A schoolmaster takes to drink.
Episode 8
All Out for Kangaroo Valley
Nov 5, 19691h 15m
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
Episode 9
Happy
Nov 12, 19691h 15m
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
Episode 10
There Is Also Tomorrow
Nov 19, 19691h 15m
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
Episode 11
The Compartment/Playmates
Nov 26, 19691h 15m
In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther
Episode 12
Blood of the Lamb
Dec 3, 19691h 15m
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
Episode 13
The Vortex
Dec 10, 19691h 15m
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
Episode 14
It Wasn't Me
Dec 17, 19691h 15m
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
Episode 15
The Season of the Witch
Jan 7, 19701h 15m
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
Episode 16
Mille Miglia
Jan 14, 19701h 15m
Episode 17
The Hunting of Lionel Crane
Jan 21, 19701h 15m
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
Episode 18
Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Jan 28, 19701h 15m
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
Episode 19
Mad Jack
Feb 4, 19701h 15m
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
Episode 20
Nathan and Tabileth
Feb 11, 19701h 15m
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
Episode 21
The Italian Table
Feb 18, 19701h 15m
A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.
Episode 22
The Boy Who Wanted Peace
Feb 25, 19701h 15m
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
Episode 23
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Mar 4, 19701h 15m
A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.
Episode 24
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Mar 11, 19701h 15m
Episode 25
No Trams to Lime Street
Mar 18, 19701h 15m
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
Episode 26
To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law
Mar 25, 19701h 15m
Episode 27
To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins
Apr 1, 19701h 15m
Episode 28
To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is
Apr 8, 19701h 15m
Episode 29
Wine of India
Apr 15, 1970
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
Episode 30
Sovereign's Company
Apr 22, 1970
A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
Episode 31
Party Games
Apr 29, 1970
Episode 32
Emma's Time
May 6, 1970
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
Episode 33
Chariot of Fire
May 13, 1970
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Episode 34
Wind Vs. Polygamy
May 27, 1970