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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
A 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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