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The Wednesday Play

Season 3 1966 - 1967

  • 1966-09-20T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 1h 15m
  • 1d 14h 45m (31 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
The Wednesday Play was an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. Every week's play was 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.

31 episodes

Season Premiere

1966-09-20T23:00:00Z

3x01 Photo Finish

Season Premiere

3x01 Photo Finish

  • 1966-09-20T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Written by Peter Ustinov. First shown as a Thursday Theatre on BBC2 28 January 1965.

1966-09-27T23:00:00Z

3x02 A Hero of Our Time

3x02 A Hero of Our Time

  • 1966-09-27T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-10-11T23:00:00Z

3x03 The Frighteners

3x03 The Frighteners

  • 1966-10-11T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Written by Daniel Farson; first shown in the series Londoners on BBC2 8 July 1965

1966-10-18T23:00:00Z

3x04 A Piece of Resistance

3x04 A Piece of Resistance

  • 1966-10-18T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-11-02T00:00:00Z

3x05 Where the Buffalo Roam

3x05 Where the Buffalo Roam

  • 1966-11-02T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-11-09T00:00:00Z

3x06 The Head Waiter

3x06 The Head Waiter

  • 1966-11-09T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-11-16T00:00:00Z

3x07 Cathy Come Home

3x07 Cathy Come Home

  • 1966-11-16T00:00:00Z1h 15m

The play tells the story of a young couple, Cathy (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. At the start of the film, Cathy leaves her parents' overcrowded rural home and hitch-hikes to the city, where she finds work and meets Reg, a well-paid lorry driver. They fall in love, marry, and rent a modern flat in a building that does not allow children. Cathy soon becomes pregnant and must stop working, and Reg is injured on the job and becomes unemployed. The loss of income and birth of the baby force them to leave their flat, and they are unable to find another affordable place to live that permits children.

They move in with Reg's mother, until tensions develop between her and Cathy in the crowded flat. A kind elderly landlady, Mrs. Alley, rents to them for a while, during which time Cathy has two more children. Mrs. Alley even allows them to stay when they fall behind on the rent. However, she dies suddenly and her nephew and heir has the family evicted by bailiffs. The family then moves to a caravan parked in a camp where several other families are already living in caravans, but the local residents object to the camp and set it on fire, killing several children. Cathy, Reg and their children are forced to illegally squat in a wrecked, abandoned building. They repeatedly try to get decent housing through the local council, but are not helped because of their many moves and the long list of other people also seeking housing assistance.

Cathy and Reg decide to separate temporarily so that Cathy and the children can move into an emergency homeless shelter where husbands are not allowed to stay. Reg leaves the area to seek employment. Cathy's loneliness and frustration finally boil over and she becomes belligerent with the shelter authorities, who are often cold and judgemental towards the women living in the shelter. Cathy's allotted time at the shelter expires while Reg is away, and she and her two remaining c

1966-11-23T00:00:00Z

3x08 The Private Tutor

3x08 The Private Tutor

  • 1966-11-23T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-11-30T00:00:00Z

3x09 A Pyre for Private James

3x09 A Pyre for Private James

  • 1966-11-30T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-12-07T00:00:00Z

3x10 A Tale of Two Wives

3x10 A Tale of Two Wives

  • 1966-12-07T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-12-14T00:00:00Z

3x11 Little Master Mind

3x11 Little Master Mind

  • 1966-12-14T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-12-21T00:00:00Z

3x12 The Mayfly and the Frog

3x12 The Mayfly and the Frog

  • 1966-12-21T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-01-04T00:00:00Z

3x13 Person to Person

3x13 Person to Person

  • 1967-01-04T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-01-18T00:00:00Z

3x14 The Order

3x14 The Order

  • 1967-01-18T00:00:00Z1h 15m

3x15 Everybody's Rich Except Us

  • 1967-01-25T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-02-01T00:00:00Z

3x16 The Lump

3x16 The Lump

  • 1967-02-01T00:00:00Z1h 15m

The story of a bricklayer, who moonlights as a revolutionary

3x17 Who's Going to Take Me On?

  • 1967-02-08T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-02-15T00:00:00Z

3x18 Death of a Teddy Bear

3x18 Death of a Teddy Bear

  • 1967-02-15T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-02-22T00:00:00Z

3x19 Days in the Trees

3x19 Days in the Trees

  • 1967-02-22T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-03-01T00:00:00Z

3x20 In Two Minds

3x20 In Two Minds

  • 1967-03-01T00:00:00Z1h 15m

A study of schizophrenia. Kate, a young woman, is denied any expression of her own individuality by her repressive, suburban family. But the psychiatric methods of the time choose to ignore this important factor of mental illness.

3x21 Another Day, Another Dollar

  • 1967-03-08T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-03-15T00:00:00Z

3x22 Public Inquiry

3x22 Public Inquiry

  • 1967-03-15T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-03-28T23:00:00Z

3x24 A Breach in the Wall

3x24 A Breach in the Wall

  • 1967-03-28T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-04-04T23:00:00Z

3x25 The Voices in the Park

3x25 The Voices in the Park

  • 1967-04-04T23:00:00Z1h 15m

3x26 Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness

  • 1967-04-11T23:00:00Z1h 15m

3x27 A Brilliant Future Behind Him

  • 1967-04-18T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-05-02T23:00:00Z

3x28 Message for Posterity

3x28 Message for Posterity

  • 1967-05-02T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-05-09T23:00:00Z

3x29 A Way with the Ladies

3x29 A Way with the Ladies

  • 1967-05-09T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-05-16T23:00:00Z

3x30 The Playground

3x30 The Playground

  • 1967-05-16T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Finale

1967-05-23T23:00:00Z

3x31 Drums Along the Avon

Season Finale

3x31 Drums Along the Avon

  • 1967-05-23T23:00:00Z1h 15m
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