The Wednesday Play

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  • Genre(s):Drama
  • Release year: 1964
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation...read more

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.

Original Release

09/30/1964 on BBC

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 The Last Train Through The Harecastle Tunnel Wednesday, 01 October 1969
2 Patterson O.K. Wednesday, 08 October 1969
3 The Mark Two Wife Wednesday, 15 October 1969
4 Close The Coalhouse Door Wednesday, 22 October 1969
5 The Sad Decline Of Arthur Maybury Wednesday, 29 October 1969
6 All Out For Kangaroo Valley Wednesday, 05 November 1969
7 Happy Wednesday, 12 November 1969
8 There Is Also Tomorrow Wednesday, 19 November 1969
9 Double Bill Wednesday, 26 November 1969
10 Blood Of The Lamb Wednesday, 03 December 1969
11 The Vortex Wednesday, 10 December 1969
12 It Wasn't Me Wednesday, 17 December 1969
13 The Season Of The Witch Wednesday, 07 January 1970
14 Millie Migla Wednesday, 14 January 1970
15 The Hunting Of Lionel Crane Wednesday, 21 January 1970
16 Rest In Peace, Uncle Fred Wednesday, 28 January 1970
17 Mad Jack Wednesday, 04 February 1970
18 Nathan and Tabileth Wednesday, 11 February 1970
19 The Italian Table Wednesday, 18 February 1970
20 The Boy Who Wanted Peace Wednesday, 25 February 1970
21 The Cellar And The Almond Tree Wednesday, 04 March 1970
22 The Year Of The Sex Olympics Wednesday, 11 March 1970
23 No Trams To Lime Street Wednesday, 18 March 1970
24 To See How Far It Is (Part 1): Murphy's Law Wednesday, 25 March 1970
25 To See How Far It Is (Part 2): The Curse Of The Donkins Wednesday, 01 April 1970
26 To See How Far It Is (Part 3): To See How Far It Is Wednesday, 08 April 1970
27 Wine Of India Wednesday, 15 April 1970
28 Sovereign's Company Wednesday, 22 April 1970
29 Party Games Wednesday, 29 April 1970
30 Emma's Time Wednesday, 13 May 1970
31 Chariot Of Fire Wednesday, 20 May 1970
32 Wind Versus Polygamy Wednesday, 27 May 1970
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Directors

Ken Loach, Gareth Davies, James Ferman, Waris Hussein, Gilchrist Calder, Claude Whatham, Alan Bridges, Peter Duguid, James MacTaggart, Charles Jarrott, Christopher Morahan, John Mackenzie, John Gorrie, Brian Parker, Jack Gold, Alan Clarke, Geoffrey Nethercott, Moira Armstrong, Alan Cooke, Pharic Maclaren, Toby Robertson, Herbert Wise, Michael Hayes, Raymond Menmuir, John Glenister, Michael Tuchner, Alan Gibson, Henric Hirsch, Rex Tucker, Donald McWhinnie, Peter Hammond, Philip Saville, Mary Ridge, Don Taylor, Murray Martin, Alan Cooke, Ronald Eyre, Michael Leeston-Smith, Marc Miller, Lionel Harris, Philip Dudley, Basil Coleman, William Slater, Bill Bain, Bill Hays, Desmond McCarthy, Roderick Graham, Mario Prizek, Robert Fleming, Barry Bermange, Michael Simpson, Piers Haggard, Peter Sasdy, Eric Till, Vivian Matalon, John Schlesinger, Anthony Page, John Robins, John McGrath, Franz Josef Wild, Robin Midgley, Rudolph Cartier, Stuart Burge

Writers

Dennis Potter, David Mercer, Hugh Whitemore, Simon Gray, Hugo Charteris, David Rudkin, Jimmy O'Connor, Jack Russell, William Trevor, Fay Weldon, Alun Owen, James Hanley, John Hopkins, Simon Raven, Nigel Kneale, Marc Brandel, Thomas Clarke, Nemone Lethbridge, Peter Terson, Julia Jones, Michael Frayn, Robert Muller, Andrew Davies, Jean Anouilh, Peter Luke, Jim Allen, Roy Minton, Richard Harris, Gordon Honeycombe, Alan Seymour, Terence Dudley, Roger Smith, Leon Griffiths, Alan Plater, Clive Exton, Fred Watson, John Mortimer, Tony Parker, Hugh Leonard, Edward Boyd, Tennys Sandgren, Mikhail Lermontov, Rosemary Hill, John Finch, Terry Wale, Ewart Alexander, Ronald Eyre, Owen Holder, Jonquil Antony, Ernest Gebler, Hunter Davies, George Salverson, Rhys Adrian, Alun Richards, François Billetdoux, Jeremy Brooks, Peter Nichols, Neville Smith, Katherine Anne Porter, Jonathan Griffin, Nell Dunn, Piers Paul Read, Desmond McCarthy, Patrick Alexander, Alphonse Daudet, Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, Ivan Turgenev, David Magarshack, Raymond Williams, Marielaine Double, Dawn Pavitt, Eric Coltart, Noel Robinson, James Broom Lynne, Alan Gosling, Ian Dallas, James Gibbins, Philip Purser, Sid Chaplin, Paul Ableman, Ian Roberts, Thomas Murphy, Christopher Williams, Tom Clarke, Peter Meyer, Charlotte Spencer, Sam Thompson, Brigid Brophy, Thomas Whyte, George Friel, Sheena Mackay, Barry Bermange, Stuart Gilbert, David Stone, Charles Wood, Charles Wood, Jeremy Sandford, Peter Everett, Michael Standing, Sonia Orwell, Jean Benedetti, Henry de Montherlant, Fritz Hochwälder, Ray Lawler, Roger Manvell, Vernon Bartlett, Leon Whiteson, Brian Wright, Frank O'Connor, Joan Henry, Patrick White, Stanley Myers, Jeremy Scott, Anthony Church, William Sansom, Errol John, David Turner, James Jones, Vickery Turner, Michael Hastings, John Hopkins, Ken Loach, Alan Sharp, Philip Saville, Waris Hussein, Noël Coward, Johnny Byrne, Marguerite Duras, Johnny Speight, Nikolai Leskov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brian Finch, Ray Jenkins, John Prebble, Don Shaw, David Halliwell, Katharine Blake, J.B. Priestley, John Gorrie, Lewis Carroll, Bill Meilen, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Logue

Cast

Producers

Editors

Roy Watts, Pam Bosworth, Dave King, Howard Billingham, Gitta Zadek, Geoffrey Botterill, Stan Hawkes, Bob Rymer, Ken Pearce, John Jarvis, Roger Marsden, Howard Kennett, Norman Carr, Peter Pierce, Les Newman, Raoul Sobel, John Nash, John Griffiths, Frank Lucas, Maksim Ushakov, Peter Ringsted, Gerard Prakke, Malcolm Baldwin, Jim Latham, Norman Matthews, Michael Johns, Dan Rae, Adam Dawson, Peter West, Brian Keene, Paddy Higson

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