Sydney Newman
Director
The Wednesday Play (1964)
Season 1
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Released Sept. 30, 1964
Episode 75 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: imdb.day-in-title, imdb.partially-lost-tv-series
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Catch As Catch Can
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
Sept. 30, 1964, midnight
S1E3 - In Camera
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.
Nov. 4, 1964, midnight
S1E4 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Nov. 11, 1964, midnight
S1E5 - The Big Breaker
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Nov. 18, 1964, midnight
S1E7 - Malatesta
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Dec. 2, 1964, midnight
S1E8 - The July Plot
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Dec. 9, 1964, midnight
S1E9 - First Love
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Dec. 16, 1964, midnight
S1E2 - A Crack in the Ice
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Oct. 28, 1964, midnight
S1E6 - Mr. Douglas
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Nov. 25, 1964, midnight
S1E33 - Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
June 23, 1965, midnight
S1E29 - For the West
May 26, 1965, midnight
S1E28 - A Knight in Tarnished Armour
May 12, 1965, midnight
S1E27 - Cemented with Love
May 5, 1965, midnight
S1E22 - Cat's Cradle
March 31, 1965, midnight
S1E21 - Moving On
March 24, 1965, midnight
S1E20 - A Little Temptation
March 17, 1965, midnight
S1E19 - Horror of Darkness
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.
March 10, 1965, midnight
S1E18 - Campaign for One
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.
March 3, 1965, midnight
S1E34 - The Seven O'Clock Crunch
June 30, 1965, midnight
S1E32 - The Pistol
June 16, 1965, midnight
S1E31 - The Man Without Papers
June 9, 1965, midnight
S1E30 - And Did Those Feet?
June 2, 1965, midnight
S1E13 - Fable
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.
Jan. 27, 1965, midnight
S1E12 - The Navigators
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Jan. 20, 1965, midnight
S1E11 - Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
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.
Jan. 13, 1965, midnight
S1E10 - Tap on the Shoulder
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.
Jan. 6, 1965, midnight
S1E17 - The Confidence Course
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.
Feb. 24, 1965, midnight
S1E16 - Wear a Very Big Hat
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Feb. 17, 1965, midnight
S1E15 - Ashes to Ashes
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.
Feb. 10, 1965, midnight
S1E14 - Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Feb. 3, 1965, midnight
S1E26 - The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
April 28, 1965, midnight
S1E25 - Auto-Stop
April 21, 1965, midnight
S1E24 - The Interior Decorator
April 14, 1965, midnight
S1E23 - Three Clear Sundays
April 7, 1965, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 75 min.
Season Runtime: 14175 min.
Released: Sept. 30, 1964
Last Air Date: May 27, 1970, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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