The Wednesday Play

Season 3

31 episodes · Sep 21, 1966

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  • S3E1

    Photo Finish

    Sep 21, 196675m

    Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

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  • S3E2

    A Hero of our Time

    Sep 28, 196675m

    A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.

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  • S3E3

    The Frighteners

    Oct 12, 196675m
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  • A Piece of Resistance
    S3E4

    A Piece of Resistance

    Oct 19, 196675m

    A retired colonel is enduring the invasion of the Channel Islands when his household is disrupted by the arrival of a German officer who is surprisingly civilised and susceptible to the daughter's charms.

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  • S3E5

    Where the Buffalo Roam

    Oct 26, 196675m

    A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.

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  • S3E6

    The Head Waiter

    Nov 17, 196575m

    It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.

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  • S3E7

    Cathy Come Home

    Nov 16, 196675m

    A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

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  • S3E8

    The Private Tutor

    Nov 23, 196675m

    A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.

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  • S3E9

    A Pyre for Private James

    Nov 30, 196675m

    A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.

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  • S3E10

    A Tale of Two Wives

    Dec 7, 196675m

    A tale of two wives: one a blonde living in a chic Parisian apartment and the other a brunette with a smart mews flat in London. Both are young, attractive, and separated from their husbands, and their paths are about to cross in an unexpected way.

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  • S3E11

    Little Master Mind

    Dec 14, 196675m

    The Barking brothers dote on their parents and do a lot of good work for charity but the police are determined to bring them to account.

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  • S3E12

    The Mayfly and the Frog

    Dec 21, 1966

    Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.

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  • S3E13

    Person To Person

    Jan 4, 1967

    A twenty-two-year-old architecture student appears at the door of a divorced thirty-something journalist and asks to use her telephone. They talk, and slowly begin to understand one another: their lives, values, and very different sets of relationships.

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  • S3E14

    The Order

    Jan 11, 1967

    An inspector in Austria investigates the death, over twenty years earlier, of a teenage girl who fell into a canal and drowned trying to evade capture by a policeman searching for members of the resistance.

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  • S3E15

    Everybody's Rich Except Us

    Jan 18, 1967

    Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.

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  • S3E16

    The Lump

    Jan 25, 1967

    Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.

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  • S3E17

    Who's Going to Take Me On?

    Feb 1, 1967

    The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.

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  • S3E18

    Death of a Teddy Bear

    Feb 8, 1967

    Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.

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  • S3E19

    Days in the Trees

    Feb 15, 1967

    A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

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  • S3E20

    In Two Minds

    Feb 22, 1967

    In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.

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  • S3E21

    Another Day, Another Dollar

    Mar 1, 1967

    A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.

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  • S3E22

    Public Inquiry

    Mar 8, 1967

    A tired signalman waits to be relieved. However, there are four trains to be guided through and some of the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly.

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  • S3E23

    A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant

    Mar 15, 1967

    John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.

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  • S3E24

    A Breach in the Wall

    Mar 22, 1967

    A parish church is undergoing restoration, when a coffin bearing the seal of Thomas à Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, is discovered. Will the discovery help unite the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches?

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  • S3E25

    The Voices in the Park

    Mar 29, 1967

    The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.

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  • S3E26

    Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness

    Apr 5, 1967

    A young man, newly dismissed from his job, returns home to a party where the other partygoers seem determined that he and a female flatmate should go on holiday together.

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  • S3E27

    A Brilliant Future Behind Him

    Apr 12, 1967

    A minor driving offence is being tried in court, but the case involves a rich young heiress, a dope peddler, and a Shadow Cabinet member.

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  • S3E28

    Message for Posterity

    Apr 19, 1967

    An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.

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  • S3E29

    A Way with the Ladies

    Apr 26, 1967

    Josh and Maisie come to Italy after the passing of the old lady who had been living in their sapre room but are soon drawn to another old lady, and try to convince her daughter that she would be better off in their tender care.

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  • S3E30

    The Playground

    May 3, 1967

    Walter has three children, by his estranged wife and his current partner, so he is far too busy to get a job, preferring to spend his time in the playground.

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  • S3E31

    Drums Along the Avon

    May 10, 1967

    A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.

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