• Air date: 30 Sep '64 172 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (172)
    • 1. Catch as Catch Can

      30 Sep '64
    • 2. In Camera

      04 Nov '64
    • 3. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

      11 Nov '64
    • 4. The Big Breaker

      18 Nov '64
    • 5. A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka

    • 6. Malatesta

      02 Dec '64
    • 7. The July Plot

      09 Dec '64
    • 8. First Love

      16 Dec '64
    • 9. A Crack in the Ice

    • 10. A Designing Woman

    • 11. A Black Candle for Mrs. Gogarty

    • 12. Close the Coalhouse Door

    • 13. The Girl Who Loved Robots

    • 14. A Piece of Resistance

    • 15. Wanted: Single Gentleman

    • 16. Hello, Good Evening and Welcome

    • 17. The Mark II Wife

    • 18. Alice

      13 Oct '65
      This episode is about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. Episode writer Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell. What follows are recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, designed to resemble the Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
    • 19. Sleeping Dog

    • 20. The Lower Largo Sequence

    • 21. Patterson O.K.

    • 22. Mooney and His Caravans

    • 23. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel

    • 24. A Pyre for Private James

    • 25. Dial Rudolph Valentino One One