Оригінальна назва
The Wednesday Play
Випущено
30.09.1964
Країна
GB
Жанр
Драма
Виробничі компанії
BBC
Статус
Завершено
Кількість сезонів
9
Кількість епізодів
205
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.
A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
In a parallel totalitarian Great Britain, those in authority are Black people, and white people are their social underdogs — a reversal of the situation in then-contemporary apartheid South Africa.
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
A trio of swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be 18th century critic-essayist William Hazlitt attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.
Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.
Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.
A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.
A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.
A gentleman thief puts together a gang to commit a perfectly executed robbery.
It is the morning of a notorious bachelor's wedding in this tale of marriage, friendship and non-communication between parents and children.
The Honourable Audrey is the latest arrival at a boarding-house in a working-class area of London.
A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.
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.
After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Three men who have avoided one another since violent events five years before meet unexpectedly one evening.
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
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.
A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.
James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?
A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.
A man seeks his inner island.
A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.
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.
An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.
A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
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.
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
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.
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