Hai cercato: The Wednesday Play
The Wednesday Play / 1964
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. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience...
The Cellar and the Almond Tree / 1970
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
The Connoisseur / 1966
George Stoupe, successful housemaster at the public school, has an eye to the main chance against his retirement. He chooses the boys for his house if their parents are rich and likely to help him in his profitable art-dealing sideline. Trouble threatens when the head boy of the house tries to expose some of the mal-practices amomg the boys.
The Big Breaker / 1964
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Fable / 1965
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
The Girl Who Loved Robots / 1965
Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.
The Big Man Coughed and Died / 1966
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
Way Off Beat / 1966
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Ashes to Ashes / 1965
Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.
Toggle / 1968
An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.
Sling Your Hook / 1969
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
The Bond / 1965
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
The Pistol / 1965
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Chariot of Fire / 1970
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father / 1968
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
Mad Jack / 1970
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
Calf Love / 1966
A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters
Silent Song / 1966
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
Moving On / 1965
A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
Sovereign's Company / 1970
Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.