The Wednesday Play

Season 2

37 episodes · Oct 6, 1965

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  • S2E1

    The War Game

    Oct 6, 196575m
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  • S2E2

    Alice

    Oct 13, 196575m

    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. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

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  • S2E3

    The Girl Who Loved Robots

    Oct 20, 196575m

    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.

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  • S2E4

    A Designing Woman

    Oct 27, 196575m

    Milly has been at it again.

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  • S2E5

    Up The Junction

    Nov 3, 196575m

    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 family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.

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  • S2E6

    The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

    Nov 10, 196575m

    An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

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  • S2E7

    The End of Arthur's Marriage

    Nov 17, 196575m

    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 will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

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  • S2E8

    Tomorrow, Just You Wait

    Nov 24, 196575m

    Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

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  • S2E9

    The Bond

    Dec 1, 196575m

    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.

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  • S2E10

    Stand Up, Nigel Barton

    Dec 8, 196575m

    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 rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.

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  • S2E11

    Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

    Dec 15, 196575m

    Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

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  • S2E12

    The Coming Out Party

    Dec 22, 196575m

    A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.

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  • S2E13

    The Bone Yard

    Jan 5, 196675m

    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 the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?

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  • S2E14

    A Man On Her Back

    Jan 12, 196675m

    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 ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

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  • S2E15

    Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

    Jan 19, 196675m

    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 expose the venture.

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  • S2E16

    Calf Love

    Jan 26, 196675m

    A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.

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  • S2E17

    Silent Song

    Feb 2, 196675m

    Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

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  • S2E18

    Who's A Good Boy Then?

    Feb 9, 196675m

    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.

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  • S2E19

    A Game - Like - Only A Game

    Feb 16, 196675m

    Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

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  • S2E20

    Why Aren't You Famous?

    Feb 23, 196675m

    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.

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  • S2E21

    Macready's Gala

    Mar 2, 196675m

    The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

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  • S2E22

    A Walk In The Sea

    Mar 9, 196675m

    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 a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

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  • S2E23

    Boy In The Smoke

    Mar 16, 196675m
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  • S2E24

    Barlowe of the Car Park

    Mar 23, 196675m

    We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

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  • S2E25

    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 against him.

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  • S2E26

    Pity About The Abbey

    Apr 6, 1966

    Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

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  • S2E27

    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.

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  • S2E28

    The Snow Ball

    Apr 20, 1966

    A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

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  • S2E29

    A Cheery Soul

    Apr 27, 1966

    When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

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  • S2E30

    The Connoiseur

    May 4, 1966

    A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.

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  • S2E31

    The Retreat

    May 11, 1966

    A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

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  • S2E32

    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.

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  • S2E33

    Toddler on the Run

    May 25, 1966

    Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

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  • S2E34

    The Executioner

    Jun 1, 1966

    Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

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  • S2E35

    Way Off Beat

    Jun 8, 1966

    Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

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  • S2E36

    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.

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  • S2E37

    Cock, Hen and Counting Pit

    Jun 22, 1966

    A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

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