The Wednesday Play — Season 3

Aired 21 September 1966 • 75 min

Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

Aired 28 September 1966 • 75 min

A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.

Aired 12 October 1966 • 75 min

Aired 19 October 1966 • 75 min

A retired colonel is enduring the invasion of the Channel Islands when his household is disrupted by the arrival of a German officer who is surprisingly civilised and susceptible to the daughter's charms.

Aired 26 October 1966 • 75 min

A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.

Aired 17 November 1965 • 75 min

It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.

Aired 16 November 1966 • 75 min

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

Aired 23 November 1966 • 75 min

A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.

Aired 30 November 1966 • 75 min

A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.

Aired 7 December 1966 • 75 min

A tale of two wives: one a blonde living in a chic Parisian apartment and the other a brunette with a smart mews flat in London. Both are young, attractive, and separated from their husbands, and their paths are about to cross in an unexpected way.

Aired 14 December 1966 • 75 min

The Barking brothers dote on their parents and do a lot of good work for charity but the police are determined to bring them to account.

Aired 21 December 1966

Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.

Aired 4 January 1967

A twenty-two-year-old architecture student appears at the door of a divorced thirty-something journalist and asks to use her telephone. They talk, and slowly begin to understand one another: their lives, values, and very different sets of relationships.

Aired 11 January 1967

An inspector in Austria investigates the death, over twenty years earlier, of a teenage girl who fell into a canal and drowned trying to evade capture by a policeman searching for members of the resistance.

Aired 18 January 1967

Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.

Aired 25 January 1967

Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.

Aired 1 February 1967

The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.

Aired 8 February 1967

Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.

Aired 15 February 1967

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

Aired 22 February 1967

In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.

Aired 1 March 1967

A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.

Aired 8 March 1967

A tired signalman waits to be relieved. However, there are four trains to be guided through and some of the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly.

Aired 15 March 1967

John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.

Aired 22 March 1967

A parish church is undergoing restoration, when a coffin bearing the seal of Thomas à Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, is discovered. Will the discovery help unite the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches?

Aired 29 March 1967

The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.

Aired 5 April 1967

A young man, newly dismissed from his job, returns home to a party where the other partygoers seem determined that he and a female flatmate should go on holiday together.

Aired 12 April 1967

A minor driving offence is being tried in court, but the case involves a rich young heiress, a dope peddler, and a Shadow Cabinet member.

Aired 19 April 1967

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 consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.

Aired 26 April 1967

Josh and Maisie come to Italy after the passing of the old lady who had been living in their sapre room but are soon drawn to another old lady, and try to convince her daughter that she would be better off in their tender care.

Aired 3 May 1967

Walter has three children, by his estranged wife and his current partner, so he is far too busy to get a job, preferring to spend his time in the playground.

Aired 10 May 1967

A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.