All Episodes of The Wednesday Play
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Season 1
4.5/109 votesCatch As Catch Can
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1964
Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.
Director: David Benedictus
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
A Crack in the Ice
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/1964
A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.
Director: Ronald Eyre
Writer: Unknown
- 7.4/1084 votes
In Camera
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/1964
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.
Director: Henric Hirsch
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/1964
A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Director: Claude Whatham
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Big Breaker
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/1964
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Director: Charles Jarrott
Writer: Alun Richards
- N/A/100 votes
Mr. Douglas
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/1964
Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Director: Gilchrist Calder
Writer: John Prebble
- N/A/100 votes
Malatesta
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1964
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Director: Christopher Morahan
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The July Plot
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1964
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Writer: Roger Manvell
- N/A/100 votes
First Love
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1964
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.
Director: Mario Prizek
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Tap on the Shoulder
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/1965
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.
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Jimmy O'Connor
- N/A/100 votes
Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/13/1965
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.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: Simon Raven
- N/A/100 votes
The Navigators
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/1965
A tale of romance between two working class navvies.
Director: Vivian Matalon
Writer: Julia Jones
- N/A/100 votes
Fable
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1965
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.
Director: Christopher Morahan
Writer: John Hopkins
- N/A/100 votes
Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1965
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Hugh Whitemore
- N/A/100 votes
Ashes to Ashes
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1965
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.
Director: Alan Cooke
Writer: Marc Brandel
- N/A/100 votes
Wear a Very Big Hat
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1965
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Eric Coltart
- N/A/100 votes
The Confidence Course
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/1965
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.
Director: Gilchrist Calder
Writer: Dennis Potter
- N/A/100 votes
Campaign for One
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1965
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.
Director: Moira Armstrong
Writer: Anthony Church, Marielaine Double
- N/A/100 votes
Three Clear Sundays
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/7/1965
No description available
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Jimmy O'Connor
- N/A/100 votes
The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/28/1965
No description available
Director: John Gorrie
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
And Did Those Feet?
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/2/1965
No description available
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: David Mercer
- N/A/100 votes
The Pistol
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/16/1965
No description available
Director: James Ferman
Writer: Unknown