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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 series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary ...
- English
- BBC 1
- 28 October 1964 –, 27 May 1970
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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- Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby
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A Beast with Two Backs. A woman is attacked in the Forest of Dean, in Dennis Potter's play set in the 1890s. All episodes of The Wednesday Play.
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 villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant.
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. Both men are now old and of little ...
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been ...
The Wednesday Play · Season 1 starring George Webb. Find Movies & TV. All
