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The Best Episodes of The Wednesday Play

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The Best Episodes of The Wednesday Play

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...

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  1. Background image for Tomorrow, Just You Wait
    8.3/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Tomorrow, Just You Wait

    S2:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for A Pyre for Private James
    7.9/10(78 votes)

    #2 - A Pyre for Private James

    S3:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for A Tale of Two Wives
    7.9/10(84 votes)

    #3 - A Tale of Two Wives

    S3:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Photo Finish
    7.6/10(53 votes)

    #4 - Photo Finish

    S3:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for A Man On Her Back
    7.5/10(85 votes)

    #5 - A Man On Her Back

    S2:E14

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for In Camera
    7.4/10(84 votes)

    #6 - In Camera

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Henric Hirsch
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Stand Up, Nigel Barton
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #7 - Stand Up, Nigel Barton

    S2:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for A Designing Woman
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #8 - A Designing Woman

    S2:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Where the Buffalo Roam
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    #9 - Where the Buffalo Roam

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for A Piece of Resistance
    7.0/10(286 votes)

    #10 - A Piece of Resistance

    S3:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The War Game
    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #11 - The War Game

    S2:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Head Waiter
    6.1/10(64 votes)

    #12 - The Head Waiter

    S3:E6

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Catch As Catch Can
    4.5/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Catch As Catch Can

    S1:E1

    Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for A Crack in the Ice
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    #14 - A Crack in the Ice

    S1:E2

    A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

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    Director:Ronald Eyre
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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    #15 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider

    S1:E4

    A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Big Breaker
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    #16 - The Big Breaker

    S1:E5

    A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

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    #17 - Mr. Douglas

    S1:E6

    Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

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    #18 - Malatesta

    S1:E7

    Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

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    #19 - The July Plot

    S1:E8

    Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.

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    #20 - First Love

    S1:E9

    A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.

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    Director:Mario Prizek
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Tap on the Shoulder
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    #21 - Tap on the Shoulder

    S1:E10

    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.

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    Director:Ken Loach
  23. Background image for Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
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    #22 - Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Stuart Burge
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    #23 - The Navigators

    S1:E12

    A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

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    #24 - Fable

    S1:E13

    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.

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    #25 - Dan, Dan the Charity Man

    S1:E14

    Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

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    Director:Don Taylor

Best Episodes Summary

"Tomorrow, Just You Wait" is the best rated episode of "The Wednesday Play". It scored 8.3/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/24/1965. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Pyre for Private James".