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  2. 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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  3. 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 ...

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    Title
    Author (s)
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    28 October 1964
    A Crack in the Ice
    A story by Nikolai Leskov . Dramatised by ...
    4 November 1964
    by Jean-Paul Sartre . Adapted for ...
    11 November 1964
    Pale Horse, Pale Rider
    Eric Till
    18 November 1964
    The Big Breaker
    • English
    • BBC 1
    • 28 October 1964 –, 27 May 1970
  4. 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...

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  5. S3.E9 ∙ Stand Up, Nigel Barton. 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.

  6. Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

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  8. Mar 1, 2020 · The Wednesday Play: Up the Junction. The plays courted controversy from the outset and became the target for 'Clean-Up TV' campaigner Mary Whitehouse, a move that simply boosted publicity and ratings as audience figures rose from one to eight million.

  9. Overview. 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.

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