The Wednesday Play

Season 6

34 episodes · Aug 6, 1969

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  • S6E1

    The Parachute

    Aug 6, 196975m
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  • S6E2

    Pitchi Poi

    Sep 24, 196975m
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  • S6E3

    The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel

    Oct 1, 196975m

    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.

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  • S6E4

    Patterson O.K.

    Oct 8, 196975m

    A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

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  • S6E5

    The Mark II Wife

    Oct 15, 196975m

    A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

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  • S6E6

    Close the Coalhouse Door

    Oct 23, 196975m

    The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

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  • S6E7

    The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

    Oct 30, 196975m

    A schoolmaster takes to drink.

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  • S6E8

    All Out for Kangaroo Valley

    Nov 5, 196975m

    Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

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  • S6E9

    Happy

    Nov 12, 196975m

    The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

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  • S6E10

    There Is Also Tomorrow

    Nov 19, 196975m

    The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

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  • S6E11

    The Compartment/Playmates

    Nov 26, 196975m

    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

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  • S6E12

    Blood of the Lamb

    Dec 3, 196975m

    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.

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  • S6E13

    The Vortex

    Dec 10, 196975m

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

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  • S6E14

    It Wasn't Me

    Dec 17, 196975m

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

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  • S6E15

    The Season of the Witch

    Jan 7, 197075m

    A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

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  • S6E16

    Mille Miglia

    Jan 14, 197075m
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  • S6E17

    The Hunting of Lionel Crane

    Jan 21, 197075m

    An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

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  • S6E18

    Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

    Jan 28, 197075m

    A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

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  • S6E19

    Mad Jack

    Feb 4, 197075m

    Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

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  • S6E20

    Nathan and Tabileth

    Feb 11, 197075m

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

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  • S6E21

    The Italian Table

    Feb 18, 197075m

    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.

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  • S6E22

    The Boy Who Wanted Peace

    Feb 25, 197075m

    Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

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  • S6E23

    The Cellar and the Almond Tree

    Mar 4, 197075m

    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.

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  • S6E24

    The Year of the Sex Olympics

    Mar 11, 197075m
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  • S6E25

    No Trams to Lime Street

    Mar 18, 197075m

    Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

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  • S6E26

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

    Mar 25, 197075m
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  • S6E27

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

    Apr 1, 197075m
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  • S6E28

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

    Apr 8, 197075m
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  • S6E29

    Wine of India

    Apr 15, 1970

    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.

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  • S6E30

    Sovereign's Company

    Apr 22, 1970

    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.

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  • S6E31

    Party Games

    Apr 29, 1970
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  • S6E32

    Emma's Time

    May 6, 1970

    Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

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  • S6E33

    Chariot of Fire

    May 13, 1970

    A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

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  • S6E34

    Wind Vs. Polygamy

    May 27, 1970
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