The Wednesday Play
Season 6
1969 · 34 episodes
1. The Parachute
1969-08-06 · 75m
2. Pitchi Poi
1969-09-24 · 75m
3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
1969-10-01 · 75m
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 is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.
4. Patterson O.K.
1969-10-08 · 75m
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
5. The Mark II Wife
1969-10-15 · 75m
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
6. Close the Coalhouse Door
1969-10-23 · 75m
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
1969-10-30 · 75m
A schoolmaster takes to drink.
8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley
1969-11-05 · 75m
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
9. Happy
1969-11-12 · 75m
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
10. There Is Also Tomorrow
1969-11-19 · 75m
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
11. The Compartment/Playmates
1969-11-26 · 75m
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 until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther
12. Blood of the Lamb
1969-12-03 · 75m
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.
13. The Vortex
1969-12-10 · 75m
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
14. It Wasn't Me
1969-12-17 · 75m
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
15. The Season of the Witch
1970-01-07 · 75m
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
16. Mille Miglia
1970-01-14 · 75m
17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane
1970-01-21 · 75m
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
1970-01-28 · 75m
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
19. Mad Jack
1970-02-04 · 75m
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
20. Nathan and Tabileth
1970-02-11 · 75m
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
21. The Italian Table
1970-02-18 · 75m
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.
22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace
1970-02-25 · 75m
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
1970-03-04 · 75m
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 Stalinist purges.
24. The Year of the Sex Olympics
1970-03-11 · 75m
25. No Trams to Lime Street
1970-03-18 · 75m
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law
1970-03-25 · 75m
27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins
1970-04-01 · 75m
28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is
1970-04-08 · 75m
29. Wine of India
1970-04-15
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 story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
30. Sovereign's Company
1970-04-22
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 life.
31. Party Games
1970-04-29
32. Emma's Time
1970-05-06
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
33. Chariot of Fire
1970-05-13
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
34. Wind Vs. Polygamy
1970-05-27
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