The Wednesday Play

Season 5

27 episodes · Aug 21, 1968

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  • S5E1

    Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It

    Aug 21, 196875m

    When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

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  • S5E2

    Spoiled

    Aug 28, 196875m

    A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.

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  • S5E3

    The Gorge

    Sep 4, 196875m

    A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.

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  • S5E4

    A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka

    Sep 11, 196875m

    A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.

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  • S5E5

    Charlie

    Sep 18, 1968

    James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.

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  • S5E6

    Anyone For Tennis?

    Sep 25, 1968

    Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?

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  • S5E7

    Mooney and his Caravans

    Oct 2, 1968

    A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.

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  • S5E8

    The Lower Largo Sequence

    Oct 9, 1968

    A man seeks his inner island.

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  • S5E9

    Hello, Good Evening and Welcome

    Oct 16, 1968

    A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".

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  • S5E10

    A Bit of Crucifixion, Father

    Oct 23, 1968

    A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.

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  • S5E11

    Nothing Will be The Same

    Oct 30, 1968

    A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.

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  • S5E12

    A Beast With Two Backs

    Nov 6, 1968

    An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.

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  • S5E13

    On the Eve of Publication

    Nov 27, 1968

    An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.

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  • S5E14

    The Fabulous Frump

    Jan 8, 1969

    A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.

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  • S5E15

    Smoke Screen

    Jan 15, 1969

    A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.

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  • S5E16

    Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter

    Jan 21, 1969

    After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.

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  • S5E17

    The Apprentices

    Jan 29, 1969

    A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.

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  • S5E18

    Birthday

    Feb 5, 1969

    A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.

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  • S5E19

    The Big Flame

    Feb 12, 1969

    Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.

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  • S5E20

    A Serpent in Putney

    Feb 19, 1969

    An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.

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  • S5E21

    Bami Powl Zapl

    Mar 5, 1969

    A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

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  • S5E22

    Cathy Come Home

    Mar 28, 1969

    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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  • S5E23

    Sling Your Hook

    Apr 2, 1969

    A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

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  • S5E24

    A Child and a Half

    Apr 9, 1969

    A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.

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  • S5E25

    Son of Man

    Apr 16, 1969

    Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.

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  • S5E26

    The Exiles

    Apr 23, 1969

    Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.

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  • S5E27

    Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage

    Apr 30, 1969

    The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.

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