The Wednesday Play es una serie de antología de obras de televisión británicas que se transmitió por BBC1 desde octubre de 1964 hasta mayo de 1970. Las obras generalmente se escribían para televisión, aunque también aparecían adaptaciones de otras fuentes. La serie se ganó la reputación de presentar dramas sociales contemporáneos y de llamar la atención de una audiencia masiva sobre temas que de otro modo no se habrían discutido en la pantalla.
The Wednesday Play (Temporada 6)
The Parachute (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-08-06
Duración: 75 min
Pitchi Poi (Episodio 2)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-09-24
Duración: 75 min
The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel (Episodio 3)
Guionista: Peter Terson
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-01
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Patterson O.K. (Episodio 4)
Guionista: Ray Jenkins
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-08
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
The Mark II Wife (Episodio 5)
Guionista: William Trevor
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-15
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
Close the Coalhouse Door (Episodio 6)
Guionista: Alan Plater
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-23
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury (Episodio 7)
Guionista: John Gorrie
Fecha de emisión: 1969-10-30
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A schoolmaster takes to drink.
All Out for Kangaroo Valley (Episodio 8)
Guionista: Noel Robinson
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-05
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
Happy (Episodio 9)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-12
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
There Is Also Tomorrow (Episodio 10)
Guionista: Hugo Charteris
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-19
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
The Compartment/Playmates (Episodio 11)
Guionista: Johnny Speight
Fecha de emisión: 1969-11-26
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: 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
Blood of the Lamb (Episodio 12)
Guionista: Leon Whiteson
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-03
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: 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.
The Vortex (Episodio 13)
Guionista: Noël Coward
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-10
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
It Wasn't Me (Episodio 14)
Fecha de emisión: 1969-12-17
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
The Season of the Witch (Episodio 15)
Guionista: Desmond McCarthy
Fecha de emisión: 1970-01-07
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
Mille Miglia (Episodio 16)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-01-14
Duración: 75 min
The Hunting of Lionel Crane (Episodio 17)
Guionista: Roy Minton
Fecha de emisión: 1970-01-21
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred (Episodio 18)
Guionista: Alan Plater
Fecha de emisión: 1970-01-28
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
Mad Jack (Episodio 19)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-02-04
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
Nathan and Tabileth (Episodio 20)
Guionista: Barry Bermange
Fecha de emisión: 1970-02-11
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
The Italian Table (Episodio 21)
Guionista: William Trevor
Fecha de emisión: 1970-02-18
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: 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.
The Boy Who Wanted Peace (Episodio 22)
Guionista: George Friel
Fecha de emisión: 1970-02-25
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
The Cellar and the Almond Tree (Episodio 23)
Guionista: David Mercer
Fecha de emisión: 1970-03-04
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: 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.
The Year of the Sex Olympics (Episodio 24)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-03-11
Duración: 75 min
No Trams to Lime Street (Episodio 25)
Guionista: Alun Owen
Fecha de emisión: 1970-03-18
Duración: 75 min
Sinopsis: Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law (Episodio 26)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-03-25
Duración: 75 min
To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins (Episodio 27)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-04-01
Duración: 75 min
To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is (Episodio 28)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-04-08
Duración: 75 min
Wine of India (Episodio 29)
Guionista: Nigel Kneale
Fecha de emisión: 1970-04-15
Sinopsis: 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.
Sovereign's Company (Episodio 30)
Guionista: Don Shaw
Fecha de emisión: 1970-04-22
Sinopsis: 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.
Party Games (Episodio 31)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-04-29
Emma's Time (Episodio 32)
Guionista: David Mercer
Fecha de emisión: 1970-05-06
Sinopsis: Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
Chariot of Fire (Episodio 33)
Guionista: Tony Parker
Fecha de emisión: 1970-05-13
Sinopsis: A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Wind Vs. Polygamy (Episodio 34)
Fecha de emisión: 1970-05-27

Temporadas
Episodios 34
Episodios 37
Episodios 31
Episodios 25
Episodios 27
Episodios 34
Episodios 1
Episodios 16
Episodios 2