The Wednesday Play (1964) · WatchGuide

The Wednesday Play (1964) · WatchGuide

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E1 · Airs Sep 30, 1964 · 1h 15m
Catch As Catch Can
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
E2 · Airs Oct 28, 1964 · 1h 15m
A Crack in the Ice
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
E3 · Airs Nov 4, 1964 · 1h 25m
In Camera
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.
E4 · Airs Nov 11, 1964 · 1h 25m
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
E5 · Airs Nov 18, 1964 · 1h 30m
The Big Breaker
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
E6 · Airs Nov 25, 1964 · 1h 10m
Mr. Douglas
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
E7 · Airs Dec 2, 1964 · 1h 35m
Malatesta
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
E8 · Airs Dec 9, 1964 · 1h 35m
The July Plot
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
E9 · Airs Dec 16, 1964 · 1h 25m
First Love
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
E10 · Airs Jan 6, 1965 · 1h 15m
Tap on the Shoulder
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.
E11 · Airs Jan 13, 1965 · 1h 15m
Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
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.
E12 · Airs Jan 20, 1965 · 1h 15m
The Navigators
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
E13 · Airs Jan 27, 1965 · 1h 15m
Fable
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.
E14 · Airs Feb 3, 1965 · 1h 15m
Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
E15 · Airs Feb 10, 1965 · 1h 15m
Ashes to Ashes
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.
E16 · Airs Feb 17, 1965 · 1h 15m
Wear a Very Big Hat
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
E17 · Airs Feb 24, 1965 · 1h 1m
The Confidence Course
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.
E18 · Airs Mar 3, 1965 · 1h 15m
Campaign for One
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.
E19 · Airs Mar 10, 1965 · 1h 10m
Horror of Darkness
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.
E20 · Airs Mar 17, 1965 · 1h 15m
A Little Temptation
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
E21 · Airs Mar 24, 1965 · 1h 15m
Moving On
A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
E22 · Airs Mar 31, 1965 · 1h 15m
Cat's Cradle
A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.
E23 · Airs Apr 7, 1965 · 1h 15m
Three Clear Sundays
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.
E24 · Airs Apr 14, 1965 · 1h 15m
The Interior Decorator
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
E25 · Airs Apr 21, 1965 · 1h 15m
Auto-Stop
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
E26 · Airs Apr 28, 1965 · 1h 15m
The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
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.
E27 · Airs May 5, 1965 · 1h 15m
Cemented with Love
It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.
E28 · Airs May 12, 1965 · 1h 15m
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
E29 · Airs May 26, 1965 · 1h 15m
For the West
White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo
E30 · Airs Jun 2, 1965 · 1h 15m
And Did Those Feet?
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
E31 · Airs Jun 9, 1965 · 1h 15m
The Man Without Papers
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?
E32 · Airs Jun 16, 1965 · 1h 15m
The Pistol
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
E33 · Airs Jun 23, 1965 · 1h 15m
Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears
E34 · Airs Jun 30, 1965 · 1h 15m
The Seven O'Clock Crunch
Martin has a mid-life crisis.