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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.
- 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.
- (131)
- 3 min
- Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby
- 1
BBC One - The Wednesday Play - Episode guide. 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...
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)
The Wednesday Play, first broadcast on 28 October 1964, started a run of single dramas that developed a reputation for controversial and ground-breaking material. It included Cathy Come Home,...
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. The Wednesday Play was known for uncompromising dramas reflecting burning contemporary issues in a Britain undergoing ...
