The Wednesday Play (Temporada 2)

The War Game (Episodio 1)

Guionista: Peter Watkins

Fecha de emisión: 1965-10-06

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Government that it was too horrifying for TV. It premiered at a London cinema six months later and was shown at film festivals, winning a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. It then won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Alice (Episodio 2)

Guionista: Dennis Potter

Fecha de emisión: 1965-10-13

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

The Girl Who Loved Robots (Episodio 3)

Guionista: Peter Everett

Fecha de emisión: 1965-10-20

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.

A Designing Woman (Episodio 4)

Guionista: Julia Jones

Fecha de emisión: 1965-10-27

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Milly has been at it again.

Up The Junction (Episodio 5)

Guionista: Nell Dunn

Fecha de emisión: 1965-11-03

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (Episodio 6)

Guionista: Alan Seymour

Fecha de emisión: 1965-11-10

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

The End of Arthur's Marriage (Episodio 7)

Guionista: Stanley Myers

Fecha de emisión: 1965-11-17

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

Tomorrow, Just You Wait (Episodio 8)

Guionista: Fred Watson

Fecha de emisión: 1965-11-24

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

The Bond (Episodio 9)

Guionista: Terry Wale

Fecha de emisión: 1965-12-01

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.

Stand Up, Nigel Barton (Episodio 10) 10.0

Guionista: Dennis Potter

Fecha de emisión: 1965-12-08

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.

Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton (Episodio 11)

Guionista: Dennis Potter

Fecha de emisión: 1965-12-15

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

The Coming Out Party (Episodio 12)

Guionista: Jimmy O'Connor

Fecha de emisión: 1965-12-22

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.

The Bone Yard (Episodio 13)

Guionista: Clive Exton

Fecha de emisión: 1966-01-05

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?

A Man On Her Back (Episodio 14)

Guionista: William Sansom

Fecha de emisión: 1966-01-12

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero (Episodio 15)

Guionista: Brian Finch

Fecha de emisión: 1966-01-19

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expose the venture.

Calf Love (Episodio 16)

Guionista: Philip Purser

Fecha de emisión: 1966-01-26

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.

Silent Song (Episodio 17)

Guionista: Hugh Leonard

Fecha de emisión: 1966-02-02

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

Who's A Good Boy Then? (Episodio 18)

Guionista: Richard Harris

Fecha de emisión: 1966-02-09

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.

A Game - Like - Only A Game (Episodio 19)

Guionista: John Hopkins

Fecha de emisión: 1966-02-16

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

Why Aren't You Famous? (Episodio 20)

Guionista: Ernest Gebler

Fecha de emisión: 1966-02-23

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.

Macready's Gala (Episodio 21)

Guionista: Hugh Whitemore

Fecha de emisión: 1966-03-02

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

A Walk In The Sea (Episodio 22)

Guionista: James Hanley

Fecha de emisión: 1966-03-09

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

Boy In The Smoke (Episodio 23)

Guionista: Patrick Galvin

Fecha de emisión: 1966-03-16

Duración: 75 min

Barlowe of the Car Park (Episodio 24)

Guionista: Paul Ableman

Fecha de emisión: 1966-03-23

Duración: 75 min

Sinopsis: We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

The Portsmouth Defence (Episodio 25)

Guionista: Nemone Lethbridge

Fecha de emisión: 1966-03-30

Sinopsis: After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.

Pity About The Abbey (Episodio 26)

Guionista: Stewart Farrar

Fecha de emisión: 1966-04-06

Sinopsis: Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

The Big Man Coughed and Died (Episodio 27)

Guionista: Brian Wright

Fecha de emisión: 1966-04-13

Sinopsis: Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

The Snow Ball (Episodio 28)

Guionista: Katharine Blake

Fecha de emisión: 1966-04-20

Sinopsis: A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

A Cheery Soul (Episodio 29)

Guionista: Patrick White

Fecha de emisión: 1966-04-27

Sinopsis: When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

The Connoiseur (Episodio 30)

Guionista: Hugo Charteris

Fecha de emisión: 1966-05-04

Sinopsis: A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.

The Retreat (Episodio 31)

Guionista: Hugh Leonard

Fecha de emisión: 1966-05-11

Sinopsis: A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

Ape and Essence (Episodio 32)

Guionista: Aldous Huxley

Fecha de emisión: 1966-05-18

Sinopsis: Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.

Toddler on the Run (Episodio 33)

Fecha de emisión: 1966-05-25

Sinopsis: Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

The Executioner (Episodio 34)

Fecha de emisión: 1966-06-01

Sinopsis: Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

Way Off Beat (Episodio 35)

Fecha de emisión: 1966-06-08

Sinopsis: Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel (Episodio 36)

Guionista: Simon Raven

Fecha de emisión: 1966-06-15

Sinopsis: A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.

Cock, Hen and Counting Pit (Episodio 37)

Guionista: David Halliwell

Fecha de emisión: 1966-06-22

Sinopsis: A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.