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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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Play for Today. 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 series gained a reputation for presenting ...
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 BreakerA woman is attacked in the Forest of Dean, in Dennis Potter's play set in the 1890s. All episodes of The Wednesday Play.
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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.
Wed, Nov 4, 1964. In this adaptation of a Jean-Paul Sartre play, three people find themselves sharing a room together with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed. 7.5/10 (79)
Upcoming Movies and TV shows; ... The Wednesday Play The Wednesday Play The Wednesday Play The Wednesday Play View more photos Series Info. Creator Sydney Newman. Network BBC.
Wednesday Play, The (1964-70) The BBC 's Wednesday Play is synonymous with 1960s television. Its name evokes memories of sensational drama and controversy, but its range was much broader than that, encompassing many genres and styles.
