The Wednesday Play (Staffel 1)

Catch As Catch Can (Folge 1)

Sendedatum: 1964-09-30

Laufzeit: 75 min

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

A Crack in the Ice (Folge 2)

Sendedatum: 1964-10-28

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

In Camera (Folge 3)

Sendedatum: 1964-11-04

Laufzeit: 85 min

Übersicht: 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.

Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Folge 4)

Sendedatum: 1964-11-11

Laufzeit: 85 min

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

The Big Breaker (Folge 5)

Autor: Alun Richards

Sendedatum: 1964-11-18

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

Mr. Douglas (Folge 6)

Autor: John Prebble

Sendedatum: 1964-11-25

Laufzeit: 70 min

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

Malatesta (Folge 7)

Sendedatum: 1964-12-02

Laufzeit: 95 min

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

The July Plot (Folge 8)

Autor: Roger Manvell

Sendedatum: 1964-12-09

Laufzeit: 95 min

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

First Love (Folge 9)

Sendedatum: 1964-12-16

Laufzeit: 85 min

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

Tap on the Shoulder (Folge 10)

Autor: Jimmy O'Connor

Sendedatum: 1965-01-06

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: 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.

Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word... (Folge 11)

Autor: Simon Raven

Sendedatum: 1965-01-13

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Navigators (Folge 12)

Autor: Julia Jones

Sendedatum: 1965-01-20

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

Fable (Folge 13)

Autor: John Hopkins

Sendedatum: 1965-01-27

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: 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.

Dan, Dan the Charity Man (Folge 14)

Autor: Hugh Whitemore

Sendedatum: 1965-02-03

Laufzeit: 75 min

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

Ashes to Ashes (Folge 15)

Autor: Marc Brandel

Sendedatum: 1965-02-10

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: 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.

Wear a Very Big Hat (Folge 16)

Autor: Eric Coltart

Sendedatum: 1965-02-17

Laufzeit: 75 min

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

The Confidence Course (Folge 17)

Autor: Dennis Potter

Sendedatum: 1965-02-24

Laufzeit: 61 min

Übersicht: 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.

Campaign for One (Folge 18)

Autor: Anthony Church

Sendedatum: 1965-03-03

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: 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.

Horror of Darkness (Folge 19)

Autor: John Hopkins

Sendedatum: 1965-03-10

Laufzeit: 70 min

Übersicht: 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.

A Little Temptation (Folge 20)

Autor: Thomas Clarke

Sendedatum: 1965-03-17

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.

Moving On (Folge 21)

Autor: Bill Meilen

Sendedatum: 1965-03-24

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.

Cat's Cradle (Folge 22)

Autor: Hugo Charteris

Sendedatum: 1965-03-31

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.

Three Clear Sundays (Folge 23)

Autor: Jimmy O'Connor

Sendedatum: 1965-04-07

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.

The Interior Decorator (Folge 24)

Autor: Jack Russell

Sendedatum: 1965-04-14

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.

Auto-Stop (Folge 25)

Autor: Alan Seymour

Sendedatum: 1965-04-21

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.

The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler (Folge 26)

Autor: Jean Benedetti

Sendedatum: 1965-04-28

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: An account of the shocking Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920s, where two working-class Italian immigrants to the US were executed after seven years on Death Row.

Cemented with Love (Folge 27)

Sendedatum: 1965-05-05

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.

A Knight in Tarnished Armour (Folge 28)

Autor: Alan Sharp

Sendedatum: 1965-05-12

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.

For the West (Folge 29)

Autor: Michael Hastings

Sendedatum: 1965-05-26

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo

And Did Those Feet? (Folge 30)

Autor: David Mercer

Sendedatum: 1965-06-02

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.

The Man Without Papers (Folge 31)

Autor: Troy Kennedy Martin

Sendedatum: 1965-06-09

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?

The Pistol (Folge 32)

Sendedatum: 1965-06-16

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears (Folge 33)

Sendedatum: 1965-06-23

Laufzeit: 75 min

The Seven O'Clock Crunch (Folge 34)

Autor: David Stone

Sendedatum: 1965-06-30

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: Martin has a mid-life crisis.