The Wednesday Play

E1 Episode 1: The Parachute

• Now playing
• 1h 15m
• Aug 6, 1969

E2 Episode 2: Pitchi Poi

• 1h 15m
• Sep 24, 1969

E3 Episode 3: The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel

• 1h 15m
• Oct 1, 1969

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

E4 Episode 4: Patterson O.K.

• 1h 15m
• Oct 8, 1969

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

E5 Episode 5: The Mark II Wife

• 1h 15m
• Oct 15, 1969

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

E6 Episode 6: Close the Coalhouse Door

• 1h 15m
• Oct 23, 1969

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

E7 Episode 7: The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

• 1h 15m
• Oct 30, 1969

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

E8 Episode 8: All Out for Kangaroo Valley

• 1h 15m
• Nov 5, 1969

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

E9 Episode 9: Happy

• 1h 15m
• Nov 12, 1969

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

E10 Episode 10: There Is Also Tomorrow

• 1h 15m
• Nov 19, 1969

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

E11 Episode 11: The Compartment/Playmates

• 1h 15m
• Nov 26, 1969

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther

E12 Episode 12: Blood of the Lamb

• 1h 15m
• Dec 3, 1969

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

E13 Episode 13: The Vortex

• 1h 15m
• Dec 10, 1969

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

E14 Episode 14: It Wasn't Me

• 1h 15m
• Dec 17, 1969

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

E15 Episode 15: The Season of the Witch

• 1h 15m
• Jan 7, 1970

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

E16 Episode 16: Mille Miglia

• 1h 15m
• Jan 14, 1970

E17 Episode 17: The Hunting of Lionel Crane

• 1h 15m
• Jan 21, 1970

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

E18 Episode 18: Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

• 1h 15m
• Jan 28, 1970

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

E19 Episode 19: Mad Jack

• 1h 15m
• Feb 4, 1970

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

E20 Episode 20: Nathan and Tabileth

• 1h 15m
• Feb 11, 1970

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

E21 Episode 21: The Italian Table

• 1h 15m
• Feb 18, 1970

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

E22 Episode 22: The Boy Who Wanted Peace

• 1h 15m
• Feb 25, 1970

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

E23 Episode 23: The Cellar and the Almond Tree

• 1h 15m
• Mar 4, 1970

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

E24 Episode 24: The Year of the Sex Olympics

• 1h 15m
• Mar 11, 1970

E25 Episode 25: No Trams to Lime Street

• 1h 15m
• Mar 18, 1970

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

E26 Episode 26: To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law

• 1h 15m
• Mar 25, 1970

E27 Episode 27: To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins

• 1h 15m
• Apr 1, 1970

E28 Episode 28: To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is

• 1h 15m
• Apr 8, 1970

E29 Episode 29: Wine of India

• Apr 15, 1970

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

E30 Episode 30: Sovereign's Company

• Apr 22, 1970

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

E31 Episode 31: Party Games

• Apr 29, 1970

E32 Episode 32: Emma's Time

• May 6, 1970

Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

E33 Episode 33: Chariot of Fire

• May 13, 1970

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

E34 Episode 34: Wind Vs. Polygamy

• May 27, 1970