The Wednesday Play: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Catch As Catch Can
Sep 30, 1964 · 75 min
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
A Crack in the Ice
Oct 28, 1964 · 75 min
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
In Camera
Nov 4, 1964 · 85 min
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.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Nov 11, 1964 · 85 min
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
The Big Breaker
Nov 18, 1964 · 90 min
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Mr. Douglas
Nov 25, 1964 · 70 min
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Malatesta
Dec 2, 1964 · 95 min
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
The July Plot
Dec 9, 1964 · 95 min
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
First Love
Dec 16, 1964 · 85 min
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Tap on the Shoulder
Jan 6, 1965 · 75 min
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 assoc
Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
Jan 13, 1965 · 75 min
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.
The Navigators
Jan 20, 1965 · 75 min
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Fable
Jan 27, 1965 · 75 min
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 aparth
Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Feb 3, 1965 · 75 min
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Ashes to Ashes
Feb 10, 1965 · 75 min
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, everyt
Wear a Very Big Hat
Feb 17, 1965 · 75 min
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
The Confidence Course
Feb 24, 1965 · 61 min
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 18
Campaign for One
Mar 3, 1965 · 75 min
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, h
Horror of Darkness
Mar 10, 1965 · 70 min
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.
A Little Temptation
Mar 17, 1965 · 75 min
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
Cat's Cradle
Mar 31, 1965 · 75 min
A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
Three Clear Sundays
Apr 7, 1965 · 75 min
A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guar
The Interior Decorator
Apr 14, 1965 · 75 min
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
Apr 28, 1965 · 75 min
An account of the shocking Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920s, where two working-class Italian immigrants to the US were executed after seven years on Death Row.
Cemented with Love
May 5, 1965 · 75 min
It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
May 12, 1965 · 75 min
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
For the West
May 26, 1965 · 75 min
White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
And Did Those Feet?
Jun 2, 1965 · 75 min
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
The Man Without Papers
Jun 9, 1965 · 75 min
Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?
The Pistol
Jun 16, 1965 · 75 min
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.