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The Wednesday Play: Created by Sydney Newman. With Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John Hopkins.
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- 1964-09-30
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The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured.
Original Air DateTitleAuthor (s)Producer28 October 1964A Crack in the IceA story by Nikolai Leskov . Dramatised by ...4 November 1964by Jean-Paul Sartre . Adapted for ...11 November 1964Pale Horse, Pale RiderEric Till18 November 1964The Big BreakerClassic play about three working-class young women who live, work and play in Battersea.
Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University.
The Wednesday Play. Top-rated. Wed, May 3, 1967. S6.E25. Message for Posterity. An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young.
A mother and son face the truth about one another during a weekend house party in Noël Coward's brilliantly merciless portrait of the darker side of the Jazz Age.
The Wednesday Play. Strand of groundbreaking and often controversial television dramas. The Vortex (72 mins) Start watching. Watchlist. Extras.
