
The Wednesday Play
Season 5
196827 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It
1968-08-21 · 75m
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
- E2
Spoiled
1968-08-28 · 75m
A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
- E3
The Gorge
1968-09-04 · 75m
A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.
- E4
A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka
1968-09-11 · 75m
A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.
- E5
Charlie
1968-09-18
James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
- E6
Anyone For Tennis?
1968-09-25
Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?
- E7
Mooney and his Caravans
1968-10-02
A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.
- E8
The Lower Largo Sequence
1968-10-09
A man seeks his inner island.
- E9
Hello, Good Evening and Welcome
1968-10-16
A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".
- E10
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
1968-10-23
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
- E11
Nothing Will be The Same
1968-10-30
A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.
E12A Beast With Two Backs
1968-11-06
An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
- E13
On the Eve of Publication
1968-11-27
An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.
- E14
The Fabulous Frump
1969-01-08
A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.
- E15
Smoke Screen
1969-01-15
A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.
- E16
Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter
1969-01-21
After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.
- E17
The Apprentices
1969-01-29
A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.
- E18
Birthday
1969-02-05
A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.
- E19
The Big Flame
1969-02-12
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
- E20
A Serpent in Putney
1969-02-19
An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.
- E21
Bami Powl Zapl
1969-03-05
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
- E22
Cathy Come Home
1969-03-28
A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
- E23
Sling Your Hook
1969-04-02
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
- E24
A Child and a Half
1969-04-09
A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.
- E25
Son of Man
1969-04-16
Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.
- E26
The Exiles
1969-04-23
Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.
- E27
Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage
1969-04-30
The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.
