The Wednesday Play: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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 6 Progress Shield
The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
Oct 1, 1969 · 75 min
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
Patterson O.K.
Oct 8, 1969 · 75 min
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
The Mark II Wife
Oct 15, 1969 · 75 min
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
Close the Coalhouse Door
Oct 23, 1969 · 75 min
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
All Out for Kangaroo Valley
Nov 5, 1969 · 75 min
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
There Is Also Tomorrow
Nov 19, 1969 · 75 min
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
The Compartment/Playmates
Nov 26, 1969 · 75 min
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
Blood of the Lamb
Dec 3, 1969 · 75 min
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.
The Vortex
Dec 10, 1969 · 75 min
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
It Wasn't Me
Dec 17, 1969 · 75 min
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
The Season of the Witch
Jan 7, 1970 · 75 min
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
The Hunting of Lionel Crane
Jan 21, 1970 · 75 min
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Jan 28, 1970 · 75 min
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
Mad Jack
Feb 4, 1970 · 75 min
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
Nathan and Tabileth
Feb 11, 1970 · 75 min
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
The Italian Table
Feb 18, 1970 · 75 min
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.
The Boy Who Wanted Peace
Feb 25, 1970 · 75 min
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Mar 4, 1970 · 75 min
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 Stalin
No Trams to Lime Street
Mar 18, 1970 · 75 min
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
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
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 lif
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.
Chariot of Fire
May 13, 1970
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.