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The Wednesday Play

Season 1

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Episode 175 min1964-09-30

Catch As Catch Can

Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

Episode 275 min1964-10-28

A Crack in the Ice

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

Episode 385 min1964-11-04

In Camera

Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.

Episode 485 min1964-11-11

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

Episode 590 min1964-11-18

The Big Breaker

A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

Episode 670 min1964-11-25

Mr. Douglas

Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

Episode 795 min1964-12-02

Malatesta

Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

Episode 895 min1964-12-09

The July Plot

Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

Episode 985 min1964-12-16

First Love

A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

Episode 1075 min1965-01-06

Tap on the Shoulder

Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.

Episode 1175 min1965-01-13

Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.

Episode 1275 min1965-01-20

The Navigators

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

Episode 1375 min1965-01-27

Fable

In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary apartheid South Africa.

Episode 1475 min1965-02-03

Dan, Dan the Charity Man

Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

Episode 1575 min1965-02-10

Ashes to Ashes

Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.

Episode 1675 min1965-02-17

Wear a Very Big Hat

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

Episode 1761 min1965-02-24

The Confidence Course

A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.

Episode 1875 min1965-03-03

Campaign for One

Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.

Episode 1970 min1965-03-10

Horror of Darkness

Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.

Episode 2075 min1965-03-17