The Wednesday Play

All Episodes 1964 - 1970

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  • 1964-09-29T23:00:00Z
  • 1h 15m
  • 9d 14h (184 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.

184 episodes

Series Premiere

1964-09-29T23:00:00Z

1x01 Catch as Catch Can

Series Premiere

1x01 Catch as Catch Can

  • 1964-09-29T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-10-28T00:00:00Z

1x02 A Crack in the Ice

1x02 A Crack in the Ice

  • 1964-10-28T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-11-04T00:00:00Z

1x03 In Camera

1x03 In Camera

  • 1964-11-04T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-11-11T00:00:00Z

1x04 Pale Horse, Pale Rider

1x04 Pale Horse, Pale Rider

  • 1964-11-11T00:00:00Z1h 15m

A CBC production first broadcast by CBC under Festival, 23 October 1963.

1964-11-18T00:00:00Z

1x05 The Big Breaker

1x05 The Big Breaker

  • 1964-11-18T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-11-25T00:00:00Z

1x06 Mr. Douglas

1x06 Mr. Douglas

  • 1964-11-25T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-12-02T00:00:00Z

1x07 Malatesta

1x07 Malatesta

  • 1964-12-02T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-12-09T00:00:00Z

1x08 The July Plot

1x08 The July Plot

  • 1964-12-09T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1964-12-16T00:00:00Z

1x09 First Love

1x09 First Love

  • 1964-12-16T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-01-06T00:00:00Z

1x10 A Tap on the Shoulder

1x10 A Tap on the Shoulder

  • 1965-01-06T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-01-20T00:00:00Z

1x12 The Navigators

1x12 The Navigators

  • 1965-01-20T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-01-27T00:00:00Z

1x13 Fable

1x13 Fable

  • 1965-01-27T00:00:00Z1h 15m

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.

1965-02-03T00:00:00Z

1x14 Dan, Dan The Charity Man

1x14 Dan, Dan The Charity Man

  • 1965-02-03T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-02-10T00:00:00Z

1x15 Ashes to Ashes

1x15 Ashes to Ashes

  • 1965-02-10T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-02-17T00:00:00Z

1x16 Wear a Very Big Hat

1x16 Wear a Very Big Hat

  • 1965-02-17T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-02-24T00:00:00Z

1x17 The Confidence Course

1x17 The Confidence Course

  • 1965-02-24T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-03-03T00:00:00Z

1x18 Campaign for One

1x18 Campaign for One

  • 1965-03-03T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-03-10T00:00:00Z

1x19 Horror of Darkness

1x19 Horror of Darkness

  • 1965-03-10T00:00:00Z1h 15m

A play by John Hopkins that takes an original look at the eternal triangle.

1965-03-17T00:00:00Z

1x20 A Little Temptation

1x20 A Little Temptation

  • 1965-03-17T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-03-23T23:00:00Z

1x21 Moving On

1x21 Moving On

  • 1965-03-23T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-03-30T23:00:00Z

1x22 Cat's Cradle

1x22 Cat's Cradle

  • 1965-03-30T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-04-06T23:00:00Z

1x23 Three Clear Sundays

1x23 Three Clear Sundays

  • 1965-04-06T23:00:00Z1h 15m

The story is of a young man, Danny Lee, imprisoned for six months after attacking a police officer. In prison he is talked into attacking a warden by two more experienced criminals so that they can come to the warden's rescue and obtain an early release. The warden dies, and the protagonist is sentenced to death by hanging. Three clear Sundays refers to the time that must elapse between a sentence to death and execution. The writer, James O'Connor, had previously been sentenced to death but was given a reprieve.

1965-04-13T23:00:00Z

1x24 The Interior Decorator

1x24 The Interior Decorator

  • 1965-04-13T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-04-20T23:00:00Z

1x25 Auto-Stop

1x25 Auto-Stop

  • 1965-04-20T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-05-04T23:00:00Z

1x27 Cemented with Love

1x27 Cemented with Love

  • 1965-05-04T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1x28 A Knight in Tarnished Armour

  • 1965-05-11T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-05-25T23:00:00Z

1x29 For the West

1x29 For the West

  • 1965-05-25T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-06-01T23:00:00Z

1x30 And Did Those Feet?

1x30 And Did Those Feet?

  • 1965-06-01T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-06-08T23:00:00Z

1x31 The Man Without Papers

1x31 The Man Without Papers

  • 1965-06-08T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-06-15T23:00:00Z

1x32 The Pistol

1x32 The Pistol

  • 1965-06-15T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-06-29T23:00:00Z

1x34 The Seven O'Clock Crunch

1x34 The Seven O'Clock Crunch

  • 1965-06-29T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Premiere

1965-10-05T23:00:00Z

2x01 The War Game

Season Premiere

2x01 The War Game

  • 1965-10-05T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Government that it was too horrifying for TV. It premiered at a London cinema six months later and was shown at film festivals, winning a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. It then won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

1965-10-12T23:00:00Z

2x02 Alice

2x02 Alice

  • 1965-10-12T23:00:00Z1h 15m

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.

1965-10-19T23:00:00Z

2x03 The Girl Who Loved Robots

2x03 The Girl Who Loved Robots

  • 1965-10-19T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-10-27T00:00:00Z

2x04 A Designing Woman

2x04 A Designing Woman

  • 1965-10-27T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-11-03T00:00:00Z

2x05 Up the Junction

2x05 Up the Junction

  • 1965-11-03T00:00:00Z1h 15m

A well-to-do girl leaves her parents and comfortable home in fashionable Chelsea to sample life in working-class Battersea, but is not prepared for the culture shock awaiting her.

2x07 The End of Arthur's Marriage

  • 1965-11-17T00:00:00Z1h 15m

A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

1965-11-24T00:00:00Z

2x08 Tomorrow, Just You Wait

2x08 Tomorrow, Just You Wait

  • 1965-11-24T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-12-01T00:00:00Z

2x09 The Bond

2x09 The Bond

  • 1965-12-01T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-12-08T00:00:00Z

2x10 Stand Up, Nigel Barton

2x10 Stand Up, Nigel Barton

  • 1965-12-08T00:00:00Z1h 15m

2x11 Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton

  • 1965-12-15T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1965-12-22T00:00:00Z

2x12 The Coming Out Party

2x12 The Coming Out Party

  • 1965-12-22T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-01-05T00:00:00Z

2x13 The Bone Yard

2x13 The Bone Yard

  • 1966-01-05T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-01-12T00:00:00Z

2x14 A Man on Her Back

2x14 A Man on Her Back

  • 1966-01-12T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-01-19T00:00:00Z

2x15 Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

2x15 Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

  • 1966-01-19T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-01-26T00:00:00Z

2x16 Calf Love

2x16 Calf Love

  • 1966-01-26T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-02-02T00:00:00Z

2x17 Silent Song

2x17 Silent Song

  • 1966-02-02T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-02-09T00:00:00Z

2x18 Who's a Good Boy Then?

2x18 Who's a Good Boy Then?

  • 1966-02-09T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-02-16T00:00:00Z

2x19 A Game--Like--Only a Game

2x19 A Game--Like--Only a Game

  • 1966-02-16T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-02-23T00:00:00Z

2x20 Why Aren't You Famous?

2x20 Why Aren't You Famous?

  • 1966-02-23T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-03-02T00:00:00Z

2x21 Macready's Gala

2x21 Macready's Gala

  • 1966-03-02T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-03-09T00:00:00Z

2x22 A Walk in the Sea

2x22 A Walk in the Sea

  • 1966-03-09T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-03-16T00:00:00Z

2x23 Boy in the Smoke

2x23 Boy in the Smoke

  • 1966-03-16T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-03-22T23:00:00Z

2x24 Barlowe of the Car Park

2x24 Barlowe of the Car Park

  • 1966-03-22T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-03-29T23:00:00Z

2x25 The Portsmouth Defence

2x25 The Portsmouth Defence

  • 1966-03-29T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-04-05T23:00:00Z

2x26 Pity about the Abbey

2x26 Pity about the Abbey

  • 1966-04-05T23:00:00Z1h 15m

2x27 The Big Man Coughed and Died

  • 1966-04-12T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-04-19T23:00:00Z

2x28 The Snow Ball

2x28 The Snow Ball

  • 1966-04-19T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-04-26T23:00:00Z

2x29 A Cheery Soul

2x29 A Cheery Soul

  • 1966-04-26T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-05-03T23:00:00Z

2x30 The Connoisseur

2x30 The Connoisseur

  • 1966-05-03T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-05-10T23:00:00Z

2x31 The Retreat

2x31 The Retreat

  • 1966-05-10T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-05-17T23:00:00Z

2x32 Ape and Essence

2x32 Ape and Essence

  • 1966-05-17T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-05-24T23:00:00Z

2x33 Toddler on the Run

2x33 Toddler on the Run

  • 1966-05-24T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-05-31T23:00:00Z

2x34 The Executioner

2x34 The Executioner

  • 1966-05-31T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1966-06-07T23:00:00Z

2x35 Way Off Beat

2x35 Way Off Beat

  • 1966-06-07T23:00:00Z1h 15m

2x36 A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

  • 1966-06-14T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Finale

1966-06-21T23:00:00Z

2x37 Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

Season Finale

2x37 Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

  • 1966-06-21T23:00:00Z1h 15m

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

Season Premiere

1967-10-10T23:00:00Z

4x01 Sleeping Dog

Season Premiere

4x01 Sleeping Dog

  • 1967-10-10T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-10-17T23:00:00Z

4x02 Wanted: Single Gentleman

4x02 Wanted: Single Gentleman

  • 1967-10-17T23:00:00Z1h 15m

4x03 A Black Candle for Mrs. Gogarty

  • 1967-10-24T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-11-08T00:00:00Z

4x04 The Devil a Monk Would Be

4x04 The Devil a Monk Would Be

  • 1967-11-08T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-10-14T23:00:00Z

4x05 Fall of the Goat

4x05 Fall of the Goat

  • 1967-10-14T23:00:00Z1h 15m

4x06 The Profile of a Gentleman

  • 1967-11-22T00:00:00Z1h 15m

4x07 Dial Rudolph Valentino One One

  • 1967-11-29T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-12-06T00:00:00Z

4x08 Kippers and Curtains

4x08 Kippers and Curtains

  • 1967-12-06T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-12-13T00:00:00Z

4x09 Death of a Private

4x09 Death of a Private

  • 1967-12-13T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-12-20T00:00:00Z

4x10 An Officer of the Court

4x10 An Officer of the Court

  • 1967-12-20T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1967-12-27T00:00:00Z

4x11 The Fat of the Land

4x11 The Fat of the Land

  • 1967-12-27T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-01-03T00:00:00Z

4x12 Toggle

4x12 Toggle

  • 1968-01-03T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-01-10T00:00:00Z

4x13 House of Character

4x13 House of Character

  • 1968-01-10T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-01-17T00:00:00Z

4x14 Jamie, On a Flying Visit

4x14 Jamie, On a Flying Visit

  • 1968-01-17T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-01-24T00:00:00Z

4x15 Monsieur Barnett

4x15 Monsieur Barnett

  • 1968-01-24T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-01-31T00:00:00Z

4x16 The Drummer and the Bloke

4x16 The Drummer and the Bloke

  • 1968-01-31T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-02-07T00:00:00Z

4x17 Rebel in the Grave

4x17 Rebel in the Grave

  • 1968-02-07T00:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-02-20T23:00:00Z

4x18 Coincidence

4x18 Coincidence

  • 1968-02-20T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-04-02T23:00:00Z

4x19 Light Blue

4x19 Light Blue

  • 1968-04-02T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-04-09T23:00:00Z

4x20 Let's Murder Vivaldi

4x20 Let's Murder Vivaldi

  • 1968-04-09T23:00:00Z1h 15m

David Mercer's black comedy drama about what happens when two unhappy relationships intertwine. Gerald, a highly intelligent senior civil servant, and his wife, Monica, enjoy a 'civilised', delicately-balanced marriage. Julie, a brittle and vulnerable young woman, is involved in an equally delicate relationship with Ben, a violent, bitter and jealous draughtsman. When Gerald decides to seduce Julie, the two partnerships meet a crossroads. Starring Denholm Elliott as Gerald, Gwen Watford as Monica, Glenda Jackson as Julie and David Summer as Ben. Directed by Alan Bridges

1968-04-16T23:00:00Z

4x21 The Golden Vision

4x21 The Golden Vision

  • 1968-04-16T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-04-30T23:00:00Z

4x22 The Man Behind You

4x22 The Man Behind You

  • 1968-04-30T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-05-07T23:00:00Z

4x23 Infidelity Took Place

4x23 Infidelity Took Place

  • 1968-05-07T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Premiere

1968-08-20T23:00:00Z

5x01 Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

Season Premiere

5x01 Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It

  • 1968-08-20T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-08-27T23:00:00Z

5x02 Spoiled

5x02 Spoiled

  • 1968-08-27T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-09-03T23:00:00Z

5x03 The Gorge

5x03 The Gorge

  • 1968-09-03T23:00:00Z1h 15m

5x04 A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka

  • 1968-09-10T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-09-17T23:00:00Z

5x05 Charlie

5x05 Charlie

  • 1968-09-17T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-09-24T23:00:00Z

5x06 Anyone for Tennis?

5x06 Anyone for Tennis?

  • 1968-09-24T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-10-01T23:00:00Z

5x07 Mooney and His Caravans

5x07 Mooney and His Caravans

  • 1968-10-01T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-10-08T23:00:00Z

5x08 The Lower Largo Sequence

5x08 The Lower Largo Sequence

  • 1968-10-08T23:00:00Z1h 15m

5x09 Hello, Good Evening and Welcome

  • 1968-10-15T23:00:00Z1h 15m

5x10 A Bit of Crucifixion, Father

  • 1968-10-29T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-11-05T23:00:00Z

5x11 Nothing Will Be the Same

5x11 Nothing Will Be the Same

  • 1968-11-05T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1968-11-19T23:00:00Z

5x12 A Beast with Two Backs

5x12 A Beast with Two Backs

  • 1968-11-19T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Dennis Potter's fictional account of an event that happened in the Forest of Dean in the 1890s when four Frenchmen came over the border from Gloucester with dancing bears, who were subsequently killed by miners coming off the late shift in retaliation for an unrelated attack on a young local girl.

1968-11-26T23:00:00Z

5x13 On the Eve of Publication

5x13 On the Eve of Publication

  • 1968-11-26T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Leo McKern and Michele Dotrice star in the first of David Mercer's trilogy of plays charting the dissolution of Robert Kelvin. An illustrious, ageing and consciously socialist novelist, his memories are triggered by his love for Emma - a woman forty years his junior. His inability to respond to her any more than to the other two women in his life heightens the agony of the play's climax. Also starring Thorley Walters and Rosalind Knight. Directed by Alan Bridges.

1969-01-07T23:00:00Z

5x14 The Fabulous Frump

5x14 The Fabulous Frump

  • 1969-01-07T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-01-14T23:00:00Z

5x15 Smoke Screen

5x15 Smoke Screen

  • 1969-01-14T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-01-21T23:00:00Z

5x16 Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter

5x16 Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter

  • 1969-01-21T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-01-28T23:00:00Z

5x17 The Apprentices

5x17 The Apprentices

  • 1969-01-28T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-02-11T23:00:00Z

5x18 Birthday

5x18 Birthday

  • 1969-02-11T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-02-18T23:00:00Z

5x19 The Big Flame

5x19 The Big Flame

  • 1969-02-18T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Following the Devlin Report, a dispute about decasualisation in the Liverpool docks leads to a strike. Six weeks into the dispute, the Strike Committee reject the employers' demands for a return to work pending negotiations, and decide to escalate the industrial action into the political - the workers occupy the docks and commence to run the operation themselves. This occupation, though violently suppressed by the state and the owners, is nonetheless conceived as a gesture of possibility to the nation's workers; Jack Regan, the chief organiser of the occupation, envisages a "big flame" of political feeling igniting across the land.

1969-02-25T23:00:00Z

5x20 A Serpent in Putney

5x20 A Serpent in Putney

  • 1969-02-25T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-03-04T23:00:00Z

5x21 Bam! Pow! Zap!

5x21 Bam! Pow! Zap!

  • 1969-03-04T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-04-01T23:00:00Z

5x22 Sling Your Hook

5x22 Sling Your Hook

  • 1969-04-01T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-04-08T23:00:00Z

5x23 A Child and a Half

5x23 A Child and a Half

  • 1969-04-08T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-04-15T23:00:00Z

5x24 Son of Man

5x24 Son of Man

  • 1969-04-15T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-04-22T23:00:00Z

5x25 The Exiles

5x25 The Exiles

  • 1969-04-22T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Finale

1969-04-29T23:00:00Z

5x26 Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage

Season Finale

5x26 Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage

  • 1969-04-29T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Premiere

1969-08-05T23:00:00Z

6x01 The Parachute

Season Premiere

6x01 The Parachute

  • 1969-08-05T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Written by David Mercer. Repeat of Play of the Month 21 January 1968. Repeated also 1 September 1976 on BBC2 and 29 November 1980 on BBC2, on 23 June 1988.

1969-09-23T23:00:00Z

6x02 Pitchi Poi

6x02 Pitchi Poi

  • 1969-09-23T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-10-07T23:00:00Z

6x04 Patterson O.K.

6x04 Patterson O.K.

  • 1969-10-07T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-10-14T23:00:00Z

6x05 The Mark II Wife

6x05 The Mark II Wife

  • 1969-10-14T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-10-21T23:00:00Z

6x06 Close the Coalhouse Door

6x06 Close the Coalhouse Door

  • 1969-10-21T23:00:00Z1h 15m

6x07 The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury

  • 1969-10-28T23:00:00Z1h 15m

6x08 All Out for Kangaroo Valley

  • 1969-11-04T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-11-11T23:00:00Z

6x09 Happy

6x09 Happy

  • 1969-11-11T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-11-18T23:00:00Z

6x10 There Is Also Tomorrow

6x10 There Is Also Tomorrow

  • 1969-11-18T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-11-25T23:00:00Z

6x11 The Compartment/Playmates

6x11 The Compartment/Playmates

  • 1969-11-25T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-12-02T23:00:00Z

6x12 Blood of the Lamb

6x12 Blood of the Lamb

  • 1969-12-02T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-12-09T23:00:00Z

6x13 The Vortex

6x13 The Vortex

  • 1969-12-09T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1969-12-16T23:00:00Z

6x14 It Wasn't Me

6x14 It Wasn't Me

  • 1969-12-16T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-01-06T23:00:00Z

6x15 The Season of the Witch

6x15 The Season of the Witch

  • 1970-01-06T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-01-13T23:00:00Z

6x16 Mille Miglia

6x16 Mille Miglia

  • 1970-01-13T23:00:00Z1h 15m

6x17 The Hunting of Lionel Crane

  • 1970-01-20T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-01-27T23:00:00Z

6x18 Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

6x18 Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred

  • 1970-01-27T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-02-03T23:00:00Z

6x19 Mad Jack

6x19 Mad Jack

  • 1970-02-03T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Jack Gold directs Tom Clarke's play about a soldier turned dissident during the First World War. Protest has become easy and respectable now. But for a young subaltern in 1917 to speak out against the horrors of the Western Front was unthinkable. One did. Second-Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, a young English country gentleman who made public his revulsion against the war. This film tells of the week in a Liverpool hotel when Sassoon re-examined his protest in spite of its complete rejection by authority and the public. Starring Michael Jayston, Michael Pennington and Clive Swift.

1970-02-10T23:00:00Z

6x20 Nathan and Tabileth

6x20 Nathan and Tabileth

  • 1970-02-10T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-02-17T23:00:00Z

6x21 The Italian Table

6x21 The Italian Table

  • 1970-02-17T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-02-24T23:00:00Z

6x22 The Boy Who Wanted Peace

6x22 The Boy Who Wanted Peace

  • 1970-02-24T23:00:00Z1h 15m

6x23 The Cellar and the Almond Tree

  • 1970-03-03T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Celia Johnson and Peter Vaughan star in the second of the 'Kelvin Trilogy' of plays by David Mercer. The Countess lives happily in her Eastern European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war, Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. Also starring Sydney Tafler, Patsy Byrne and Bernard Kay as Robert Kelvin. Directed by Alan Bridges.

6x24 The Year of the Sex Olympics

  • 1970-03-10T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-03-17T23:00:00Z

6x25 No Trams to Lime Street

6x25 No Trams to Lime Street

  • 1970-03-17T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-04-14T23:00:00Z

6x29 Wine of India

6x29 Wine of India

  • 1970-04-14T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-04-21T23:00:00Z

6x30 Sovereign's Company

6x30 Sovereign's Company

  • 1970-04-21T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-04-28T23:00:00Z

6x31 Party Games

6x31 Party Games

  • 1970-04-28T23:00:00Z1h 15m

1970-05-12T23:00:00Z

6x32 Emma's Time

6x32 Emma's Time

  • 1970-05-12T23:00:00Z1h 15m

Season Finale

1970-05-19T23:00:00Z

6x33 Chariot of Fire

Season Finale

6x33 Chariot of Fire

  • 1970-05-19T23:00:00Z1h 15m

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