The Wednesday Play (Сезон 1)

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

  • Poster for Catch As Catch Can

    Catch As Catch Can (Эпизод 1)

    Дата выхода: 1964-09-30

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for A Crack in the Ice

    A Crack in the Ice (Эпизод 2)

    Дата выхода: 1964-10-28

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

  • Poster for In Camera

    In Camera (Эпизод 3)

    Дата выхода: 1964-11-04

    Продолжительность: 85 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Pale Horse, Pale Rider

    Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Эпизод 4)

    Дата выхода: 1964-11-11

    Продолжительность: 85 min

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

  • Poster for The Big Breaker

    The Big Breaker (Эпизод 5)

    Сценарист: Alun Richards

    Дата выхода: 1964-11-18

    Продолжительность: 90 min

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

  • Poster for Mr. Douglas

    Mr. Douglas (Эпизод 6)

    Сценарист: John Prebble

    Дата выхода: 1964-11-25

    Продолжительность: 70 min

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

  • Poster for Malatesta

    Malatesta (Эпизод 7)

    Дата выхода: 1964-12-02

    Продолжительность: 95 min

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

  • Poster for The July Plot

    The July Plot (Эпизод 8)

    Сценарист: Roger Manvell

    Дата выхода: 1964-12-09

    Продолжительность: 95 min

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

  • Poster for First Love

    First Love (Эпизод 9)

    Дата выхода: 1964-12-16

    Продолжительность: 85 min

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

  • Poster for Tap on the Shoulder

    Tap on the Shoulder (Эпизод 10)

    Сценарист: Jimmy O'Connor

    Дата выхода: 1965-01-06

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

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

    Сценарист: Simon Raven

    Дата выхода: 1965-01-13

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for The Navigators

    The Navigators (Эпизод 12)

    Сценарист: Julia Jones

    Дата выхода: 1965-01-20

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Fable

    Fable (Эпизод 13)

    Сценарист: John Hopkins

    Дата выхода: 1965-01-27

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Dan, Dan the Charity Man

    Dan, Dan the Charity Man (Эпизод 14)

    Сценарист: Hugh Whitemore

    Дата выхода: 1965-02-03

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Ashes to Ashes

    Ashes to Ashes (Эпизод 15)

    Сценарист: Marc Brandel

    Дата выхода: 1965-02-10

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Wear a Very Big Hat

    Wear a Very Big Hat (Эпизод 16)

    Сценарист: Eric Coltart

    Дата выхода: 1965-02-17

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for The Confidence Course

    The Confidence Course (Эпизод 17)

    Сценарист: Dennis Potter

    Дата выхода: 1965-02-24

    Продолжительность: 61 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Campaign for One

    Campaign for One (Эпизод 18)

    Сценарист: Anthony Church

    Дата выхода: 1965-03-03

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Horror of Darkness

    Horror of Darkness (Эпизод 19)

    Сценарист: John Hopkins

    Дата выхода: 1965-03-10

    Продолжительность: 70 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for A Little Temptation

    A Little Temptation (Эпизод 20)

    Сценарист: Thomas Clarke

    Дата выхода: 1965-03-17

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Moving On

    Moving On (Эпизод 21)

    Сценарист: Bill Meilen

    Дата выхода: 1965-03-24

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Cat's Cradle

    Cat's Cradle (Эпизод 22)

    Сценарист: Hugo Charteris

    Дата выхода: 1965-03-31

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Three Clear Sundays

    Three Clear Sundays (Эпизод 23)

    Сценарист: Jimmy O'Connor

    Дата выхода: 1965-04-07

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for The Interior Decorator

    The Interior Decorator (Эпизод 24)

    Сценарист: Jack Russell

    Дата выхода: 1965-04-14

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Auto-Stop

    Auto-Stop (Эпизод 25)

    Сценарист: Alan Seymour

    Дата выхода: 1965-04-21

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

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

    Сценарист: Jean Benedetti

    Дата выхода: 1965-04-28

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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.

  • Poster for Cemented with Love

    Cemented with Love (Эпизод 27)

    Дата выхода: 1965-05-05

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for A Knight in Tarnished Armour

    A Knight in Tarnished Armour (Эпизод 28)

    Сценарист: Alan Sharp

    Дата выхода: 1965-05-12

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for For the West

    For the West (Эпизод 29)

    Сценарист: Michael Hastings

    Дата выхода: 1965-05-26

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for And Did Those Feet?

    And Did Those Feet? (Эпизод 30)

    Сценарист: David Mercer

    Дата выхода: 1965-06-02

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for The Man Without Papers

    The Man Without Papers (Эпизод 31)

    Сценарист: Troy Kennedy Martin

    Дата выхода: 1965-06-09

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: 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?

  • Poster for The Pistol

    The Pistol (Эпизод 32)

    Дата выхода: 1965-06-16

    Продолжительность: 75 min

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

  • Poster for Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

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

    Дата выхода: 1965-06-23

    Продолжительность: 75 min

  • Poster for The Seven O'Clock Crunch

    The Seven O'Clock Crunch (Эпизод 34)

    Сценарист: David Stone

    Дата выхода: 1965-06-30

    Продолжительность: 75 min

    Описание: Martin has a mid-life crisis.

The Wednesday Play

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