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

Catch As Catch Can

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

A Crack in the Ice

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.

In Camera

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

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

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

The Big Breaker

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

Mr. Douglas

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

Malatesta

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

The July Plot

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

First 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.

Tap on the Shoulder

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.

Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

The Navigators

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.

Fable

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

Dan, Dan the Charity Man

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.

Ashes to Ashes

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

Wear a Very Big Hat

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.

The Confidence Course

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.

Campaign for One

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.

Horror of Darkness

A Little Temptation

Moving On

Cat's Cradle

Three Clear Sundays

The Interior Decorator

Auto-Stop

The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler

Cemented with Love

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

For the West

And Did Those Feet?

The Man Without Papers

The Pistol

Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

The Seven O'Clock Crunch

The War Game

Alice

The Girl Who Loved Robots

A Designing Woman

Up The Junction

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne

The End of Arthur's Marriage

Tomorrow, Just You Wait

The Bond

Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton

The Coming Out Party

The Bone Yard

A Man On Her Back

Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero

Calf Love

Silent Song

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.

Who's A Good Boy Then?

A Game - Like - Only A Game

Why Aren't You Famous?

Macready's Gala

A Walk In The Sea

Boy In The Smoke

Barlowe of the Car Park

The Portsmouth Defence

Pity About The Abbey

The Big Man Coughed and Died

The Snow Ball

A Cheery Soul

The Connoiseur

The Retreat

Ape and Essence

Toddler on the Run

The Executioner

Way Off Beat

A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel

Cock, Hen and Counting Pit

Photo Finish

A Hero of our Time

The Frighteners

A Piece of Resistance

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.

Where the Buffalo Roam

The Head Waiter

Cathy Come Home

The Private Tutor

A Pyre for Private James

A Tale of Two Wives

Little Master Mind

The Mayfly and the Frog

Person To Person

The Order

Everybody's Rich Except Us

The Lump

Who's Going to Take Me On?

Death of a Teddy Bear

Days in the Trees

In Two Minds

Another Day, Another Dollar

Public Inquiry

A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant

A Breach in the Wall

The Voices in the Park

Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness

A Brilliant Future Behind Him

Message for Posterity

A Way with the Ladies

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.

The Best Seasons of The Wednesday Play

The Best Seasons of The Wednesday Play

The Best Seasons of The Wednesday Play

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