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The Best Episodes of The Wednesday Play Season 1

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The Best Episodes of The Wednesday Play Season 1

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 Catch As Catch Can
    4.5/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Catch As Catch Can

    S1:E1

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

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

    S1:E2

    A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

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

    #3 - 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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    #4 - 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
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    #5 - The Big Breaker

    S1:E5

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

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    #6 - Mr. Douglas

    S1:E6

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

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    #7 - Malatesta

    S1:E7

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

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    #8 - 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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    #9 - 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
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    #10 - 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
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    #11 - 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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    #12 - The Navigators

    S1:E12

    A tale of romance between two working class navvies.

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    #13 - 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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    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for Ashes to Ashes
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    #15 - Ashes to Ashes

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Director:Alan Cooke
  17. Background image for Wear a Very Big Hat
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    #16 - Wear a Very Big Hat

    S1:E16

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

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    Director:Ken Loach
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    #17 - The Confidence Course

    S1:E17

    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.

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    #18 - Campaign for One

    S1:E18

    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.

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    #19 - Horror of Darkness

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - A Little Temptation

    S1:E20

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - Moving On

    S1:E21

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Cat's Cradle

    S1:E22

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Three Clear Sundays

    S1:E23

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    Director:Ken Loach
  25. Background image for The Interior Decorator
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    #24 - The Interior Decorator

    S1:E24

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - Auto-Stop

    S1:E25

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Catch As Catch Can" is the best rated episode of "The Wednesday Play" season 1. It scored 4.5/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by David Benedictus and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/30/1964. This episode is rated 4.5 points higher than the second-best, "A Crack in the Ice".