The Wednesday Play: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Wednesday Play Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The War Game
Oct 6, 1965 · 75 min
Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Gove
Alice
Oct 13, 1965 · 75 min
In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity.
The Girl Who Loved Robots
Oct 20, 1965 · 75 min
Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.
Up The Junction
Nov 3, 1965 · 75 min
Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover famil
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
Nov 10, 1965 · 75 min
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
The End of Arthur's Marriage
Nov 17, 1965 · 75 min
A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership wil
Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Nov 24, 1965 · 75 min
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
The Bond
Dec 1, 1965 · 75 min
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Dec 8, 1965 · 75 min
It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the
Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton
Dec 15, 1965 · 75 min
Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
The Coming Out Party
Dec 22, 1965 · 75 min
A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.
The Bone Yard
Jan 5, 1966 · 75 min
Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and
A Man On Her Back
Jan 12, 1966 · 75 min
John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladie
Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero
Jan 19, 1966 · 75 min
Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expos
Calf Love
Jan 26, 1966 · 75 min
A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.
Silent Song
Feb 2, 1966 · 75 min
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
Who's A Good Boy Then?
Feb 9, 1966 · 75 min
Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.
A Game - Like - Only A Game
Feb 16, 1966 · 75 min
Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.
Why Aren't You Famous?
Feb 23, 1966 · 75 min
A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.
Macready's Gala
Mar 2, 1966 · 75 min
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
A Walk In The Sea
Mar 9, 1966 · 75 min
Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for
Barlowe of the Car Park
Mar 23, 1966 · 75 min
We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.
The Portsmouth Defence
Mar 30, 1966
After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire again
Pity About The Abbey
Apr 6, 1966
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
The Big Man Coughed and Died
Apr 13, 1966
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
The Snow Ball
Apr 20, 1966
A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.
A Cheery Soul
Apr 27, 1966
When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.
The Connoiseur
May 4, 1966
A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.
The Retreat
May 11, 1966
A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.
Ape and Essence
May 18, 1966
Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.
Toddler on the Run
May 25, 1966
Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.
Way Off Beat
Jun 8, 1966
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
Jun 15, 1966
A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one
Cock, Hen and Counting Pit
Jun 22, 1966
A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.