The Wednesday Play (Staffel 5)

Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It (Folge 1)

Autor: Tony Parker

Sendedatum: 1968-08-21

Laufzeit: 75 min

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

Spoiled (Folge 2)

Autor: Simon Gray

Sendedatum: 1968-08-28

Laufzeit: 75 min

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

The Gorge (Folge 3)

Autor: Peter Nichols

Sendedatum: 1968-09-04

Laufzeit: 75 min

Übersicht: 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.

A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka (Folge 4)

Autor: William Trevor

Sendedatum: 1968-09-11

Laufzeit: 75 min

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

Charlie (Folge 5)

Autor: Alun Owen

Sendedatum: 1968-09-18

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

Anyone For Tennis? (Folge 6)

Autor: J. B. Priestley

Sendedatum: 1968-09-25

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

Mooney and his Caravans (Folge 7)

Autor: Peter Terson

Sendedatum: 1968-10-02

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

The Lower Largo Sequence (Folge 8)

Autor: Edward Boyd

Sendedatum: 1968-10-09

Übersicht: A man seeks his inner island.

Hello, Good Evening and Welcome (Folge 9)

Autor: Hugh Whitemore

Sendedatum: 1968-10-16

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

A Bit of Crucifixion, Father (Folge 10)

Autor: Julia Jones

Sendedatum: 1968-10-23

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

Nothing Will be The Same (Folge 11)

Autor: James Hanley

Sendedatum: 1968-10-30

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

A Beast With Two Backs (Folge 12)

Autor: Dennis Potter

Sendedatum: 1968-11-06

Übersicht: 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.

On the Eve of Publication (Folge 13)

Autor: David Mercer

Sendedatum: 1968-11-27

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

The Fabulous Frump (Folge 14)

Autor: James Gibbons

Sendedatum: 1969-01-08

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

Smoke Screen (Folge 15)

Autor: Fay Weldon

Sendedatum: 1969-01-15

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

Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter (Folge 16)

Autor: Hugo Charteris

Sendedatum: 1969-01-21

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

The Apprentices (Folge 17)

Autor: Peter Terson

Sendedatum: 1969-01-29

Übersicht: A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.

Birthday (Folge 18)

Autor: Michael Frayn

Sendedatum: 1969-02-05

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

The Big Flame (Folge 19)

Autor: Jim Allen

Sendedatum: 1969-02-12

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

A Serpent in Putney (Folge 20)

Autor: Fred Watson

Sendedatum: 1969-02-19

Übersicht: An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.

Bami Powl Zapl (Folge 21)

Autor: Nigel Kneale

Sendedatum: 1969-03-05

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

Cathy Come Home (Folge 22)

Autor: Ken Loach

Sendedatum: 1969-03-28

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

Sling Your Hook (Folge 23)

Autor: Roy Minton

Sendedatum: 1969-04-02

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

A Child and a Half (Folge 24)

Autor: Barry Letts

Sendedatum: 1969-04-09

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

Son of Man (Folge 25)

Autor: Dennis Potter

Sendedatum: 1969-04-16

Übersicht: 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.

The Exiles (Folge 26)

Autor: Errol John

Sendedatum: 1969-04-23

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

Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (Folge 27)

Autor: David Rudkin

Sendedatum: 1969-04-30

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