The Wednesday Play was an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. Every week's play was usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
The Wednesday Play was an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. Every week's play was usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
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Seasons (6)
Season 1
28 Oct 1964 – 20 May 1971 · 173 episodes
1Catch as Catch Can
2A Hero of Our Time
3Anyone for Tennis?
4Charlie
5A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka
6The Gorge
7A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
8The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury29 Oct 1969
9A Crack in the Ice28 Oct 1964
10A Designing Woman
11A Black Candle for Mrs. Gogarty
12Close the Coalhouse Door
13The Girl Who Loved Robots
14A Piece of Resistance
15Wanted: Single Gentleman
16Hello, Good Evening and Welcome
17The Mark II Wife
18Alice13 Oct 1965
19Sleeping Dog
20The Lower Largo Sequence
21Patterson O.K.
22Mooney and His Caravans2 Oct 1968
23The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
24A Pyre for Private James30 Nov 1966
25Dial Rudolph Valentino One One
26On the Eve of Publication
27The Compartment/Playmates
28Mr. Douglas
29Tomorrow, Just You Wait24 Nov 1965
30The Private Tutor
31The Profile of a Gentleman
32A Beast with Two Backs
33There is Also Tomorrow
34The Big Breaker
35The End of Arthur's Marriage
36Cathy Come Home16 Nov 1966
37Fall of the Goat15 Nov 1967
38Happy
39The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
40The Head Waiter
41The Devil a Monk Would Be8 Nov 1967
42Nothing Will Be the Same
43All Out for Kangaroo Valley5 Nov 1969
44In Camera
45Up the Junction3 Nov 1965
46Where the Buffalo Roam
47Pitchi Poi
48Joan
49For the West
50Toddler on the Run
51Drums Along the Avon
52Chariot of Fire
53Ape and Essence
54The Playground
55Emma's Time
56A Knight in Tarnished Armour
57The Retreat11 May 1966
58A Way with the Ladies
59Infidelity Took Place8 May 1968
60Cemented with Love
61The Connoisseur
62Message for Posterity3 May 1967
63The Man Behind You
64Cat's Cradle
65The Portsmouth Defence
66A Breach in the Wall
67Moving On24 Mar 1965
68Barlowe of the Car Park
69A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant22 Mar 1967
70No Trams to Lime Street
71A Little Temptation17 Mar 1965
72Public Inquiry
73Horror of Darkness
74A Walk in the Sea
75Another Day, Another Dollar8 Mar 1967
76Bam! Pow! Zap!
77The Cellar and the Almond Tree
78Campaign for One
79Macready's Gala
80In Two Minds1 Mar 1967
81The Seven O'Clock Crunch
82Cock, Hen and Courting Pit
83The Pistol16 Jun 1965
84A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
85The Man Without Papers
86Way Off Beat
87And Did Those Feet?
88The Executioner
89The Drummer and the Bloke
90The Apprentices
91Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
92Fable
93Calf Love26 Jan 1966
94Everybody's Rich Except Us
95Monsieur Barnett
96Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter22 Jan 1969
97The Hunting of Lionel Crane
98The Navigators
99Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero
100The Order
101Jamie, On a Flying Visit17 Jan 1968
102Smoke Screen
103Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...13 Jan 1965
104A Man on Her Back
105House of Character
106The Fabulous Frump8 Jan 1969
107The Season of the Witch7 Jan 1970
108A Tap on the Shoulder6 Jan 1965
109The Bone Yard
110Person to Person4 Jan 1967
111Toggle
112A Serpent in Putney
113The Boy Who Wanted Peace
114The Confidence Course
115Why Aren't You Famous?
116Days in the Trees
117Coincidence
118The Big Flame19 Feb 1969
119The Italian Table
120Wear a Very Big Hat
121A Game--Like--Only a Game
122Death of a Teddy Bear
123Birthday12 Feb 1969
124Nathan and Tabileth
125Ashes to Ashes
126Who's a Good Boy Then?
127Who's Going to Take Me On?
128Rebel in the Grave
129Mad Jack4 Feb 1970
130Dan, Dan the Charity Man3 Feb 1965
131Silent Song2 Feb 1966
132The Lump1 Feb 1967
133The Fat of the Land
134The Coming Out Party
135The Mayfly and the Frog
136An Officer of the Court20 Dec 1967
137It Wasn't Me
138First Love
139Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton
140Little Master Mind
141Death of a Private13 Dec 1967
142The Vortex
143The July Plot
144Stand Up, Nigel Barton
145A Tale of Two Wives
146Kippers and Curtains6 Dec 1967
147Blood of the Lamb
148Malatesta
149The Bond
150Spoiled
151Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
152Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage30 Apr 1969