The Wednesday Play (Season 9)

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 Happy

    Happy (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1969-11-12

    Overview: The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

  • Poster for The Cellar and the Almond Tree

    The Cellar and the Almond Tree (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1970-03-04

    Overview: 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 Wednesday Play

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