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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.
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.
The Wednesday Play. Home. Episodes. Clips. Episodes. All. Available now (1) Next on (0) A Tap on the Shoulder. A group of criminals plan a robbery with the aid of a wealthy society...
The Vortex: Directed by Philip Dudley. With Margaret Leighton, Richard Warwick, Patrick Barr, Alan Melville. Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
Wed, Dec 8, 1965. 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. Dramas that collectively transformed British TV from 1964 to 1970. This month, as BFI Southbank celebrates 50 years of the BBC’s groundbreaking drama strand (see p50), The Mediatheque presents its own picks from the 170 dramas that collectively transformed British TV from 1964 to 1970.
May 27, 2020 · 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.
