The Wednesday Play — Season 5

Aug 19681h 15m

When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

Aug 19681h 15m

A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.

Sept 19681h 15m

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.

Sept 19681h 15m

A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.

Sept 1968

James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.

Sept 1968

Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?

Oct 1968

A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.

Oct 1968

A man seeks his inner island.

Oct 1968

A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".

Oct 1968

A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.

Oct 1968

A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.

Nov 1968

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.

Nov 1968

An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.

Jan 1969

A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.

Jan 1969

A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.

Jan 1969

After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.

Jan 1969

A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.

Feb 1969

A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.

Feb 1969

Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.

Feb 1969

An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.

Mar 1969

A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

Mar 1969

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

Apr 1969

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

Apr 1969

A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.

Apr 1969

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.

Apr 1969

Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.

Apr 1969

The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.