• Air date: 06 Jan '65 24 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 (24)
    • 1. A Tap On The Shoulder

      06 Jan '65
    • 2. Sir Jocelyn, The Minister Would Like A Word …

      13 Jan '65
    • 3. The Navigators

      20 Jan '65
    • 4. Fable

      27 Jan '65
      Fable is a British television play, shown on 27 January 1965 as an episode of The Wednesday Play series on BBC 1. Written by John Hopkins, the play is set in a parallel totalitarian Britain where those in authority are black people, and white people are their social underdogs - a reversal of the situation in contemporary apartheid South Africa. It was directed by Christopher Morahan and produced by James MacTaggart.
    • 5. Dan, Dan, The Charity Man

      03 Feb '65
    • 6. Ashes To Ashes

      10 Feb '65
    • 7. Wear A Very Big Hat

      17 Feb '65
    • 8. The Confidence Course

      24 Feb '65
    • 9. Campaign For One

      03 Mar '65
    • 10. Horror Of Darkness

      10 Mar '65
      "The liberal middle-class mask well and truly slips in John Hopkins' intense, slow-burning love triangle drama, broadcast in the BBC's groundbreaking Wednesday Play slot. An affluent, cosmopolitan London couple (Jackson and Lynch) find their outwardly charmed lives turned upside down by the appearance of a troubled homosexual friend (Williamson), who quickly touches a raw nerve. In a virtuoso performance, Jackson's spirited, cerebral Cathy finds herself unable to penetrate either man's psyche. S
    • 11. A Little Temptation

      17 Mar '65
    • 12. Moving On

      24 Mar '65
    • 13. Cat's Cradle

      31 Mar '65
    • 14. Three Clear Sundays

      07 Apr '65
    • 15. The Interior Decorator

      14 Apr '65
    • 16. Auto-Stop

      21 Apr '65
    • 17. The Good Shoe Maker And The Poor Fish Peddler

      28 Apr '65
    • 18. Cemented With Love

      05 May '65
    • 19. A Knight In Tarnished Armour

      12 May '65
    • 20. For The West

      26 May '65
    • 21. And Did Those Feet?

      02 Jun '65
    • 22. The Man Without Papers

      09 Jun '65
    • 23. The Pistol

      16 Jun '65
    • 24. The Seven O'Clock Crunch

      30 Jun '65