"The Wednesday Play" TV series.
A list of episodes from a landmark programme of British TV drama. These plays tended to inform, as well as entertain the public.
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- CreatorSydney NewmanStarsEdwin BrownNeville SmithTony SelbySeries 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. Famous plays include "Up the Junction", "Cathy Come Home" , "Stand Up Nigel Barton", "Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton", "On the Eve of Publication", and "Son of Man". The series often addressed controversial issues, such as homelessness and abortion.
- DirectorJames FermanStarsRosemary LeachJimmy GardnerCharles 'Bud' TingwellA prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsMichele DotriceAndrew KeirIan HolmEmma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsRoland CulverGareth ForwoodJames CosmoA young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
- DirectorGilchrist CalderStarsAnnette CrosbieBrian BlessedJohn StandingIn the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centers around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsRosemary NicolsAnthony MayPaul GreenwoodThree young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsCelia JohnsonPeter VaughanSydney TaflerA former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.
- DirectorPharic MaclarenStarsLaurance RudicRoddy McMillanJoseph BradyTwo Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsLeonard RossiterIsabel DeanMoira RedmondA junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.
- DirectorBarry BermangeStarsAlbert van DalsumNell KnoopWies AndersenA young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsMichael JaystonMichael PenningtonDavid WoodSecond Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War.
- DirectorMichael HayesStarsSusan JamesonCorin RedgraveAnne DysonA tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsRobert PowellMichael RobbinsDon HawkinsAn army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
- DirectorDesmond McCarthyStarsJulie DriscollPaul NicholasRobert PowellA young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
- DirectorJames FermanStarsFrances CukaRonald LaceyDerek FrancisA couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
- DirectorPhilip DudleyStarsMargaret LeightonRichard WarwickPatrick BarrYoung Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsFrank FinlayNicola PagettT.P. McKennaA student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
- 1964–19701h6.9 (11)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn McGrathStarsMarty FeldmanJoby BlanshardEileen AtkinsIn the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsGlyn HoustonJean HarveyAnn PenfoldThe commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
- DirectorMarc MillerStarsMalcolm McDowellRichard VernonBrenda BruceThe story of an up-and-coming businessman.
- DirectorBill BainStarsSandra GleesonMark EdwardsKerry FrancisTwo young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsRoland CulverLally BowersValerie WhiteA schoolmaster takes to drink.
- DirectorBill HaysStarsDudley FosterAlan BrowningColin DouglasThe history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsFaith BrookAlethea CharltonRoland CurramA woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
- DirectorPharic MaclarenStarsAndrew RobertsonRoddy McMillanCalum MillA story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.