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The Wednesday Play

Season 6

1969 · 34 episodes

  1. 1. The Parachute

    1969-08-06 · 75m

  2. 2. Pitchi Poi

    1969-09-24 · 75m

  3. 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. 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. 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. 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. 7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

    1969-10-30 · 75m

    A schoolmaster takes to drink.

  8. 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. 9. Happy

    1969-11-12 · 75m

    The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

  10. 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. 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. 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. 13. The Vortex

    1969-12-10 · 75m

    Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

  14. 14. It Wasn't Me

    1969-12-17 · 75m

    A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

  15. 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. 16. Mille Miglia

    1970-01-14 · 75m

  17. 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. 18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

    1970-01-28 · 75m

    A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

  19. 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. 20. Nathan and Tabileth

    1970-02-11 · 75m

    A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

  21. 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. 22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace

    1970-02-25 · 75m

    Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

  23. 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. 24. The Year of the Sex Olympics

    1970-03-11 · 75m

  25. 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. 26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law

    1970-03-25 · 75m

  27. 27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins

    1970-04-01 · 75m

  28. 28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is

    1970-04-08 · 75m

  29. 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. 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. 31. Party Games

    1970-04-29

  32. 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. 33. Chariot of Fire

    1970-05-13

    A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

  34. 34. Wind Vs. Polygamy

    1970-05-27

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