The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play was an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. Every week's play was 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 that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 71836
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired September 30, 1964
  • Recent May 20, 1970
  • Network BBC BBC One
  • Average Runtime 75 minutes
  • Genres Drama
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
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  • Created February 4, 2008 by
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  • Modified November 24, 2023 by
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 September 1964 June 1965 34
Season 2 October 1965 June 1966 37
Season 3 September 1966 May 1967 31
Season 4 October 1967 May 1968 23
Season 5 August 1968 April 1969 26
Season 6 August 1969 May 1970 33
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Specials 0
Unassigned Episodes 184
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 184

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Name Number of Episodes Dates
Ken Loach 10 01/06/1965 - 03/11/1970
Gareth Davies 6 10/13/1965 - 04/16/1969
Gilchrist Calder 5 11/25/1964 - 04/15/1970
James MacTaggart 5 01/05/1966 - 12/20/1967
John Gorrie 4 04/28/1965 - 10/29/1969
Claude Whatham 4 01/17/1968 - 02/12/1969
Waris Hussein 3 01/12/1966 - 02/22/1967
Charles Jarrott 3 11/18/1964 - 05/11/1966
Brian Parker 3 04/21/1965 - 10/27/1965
Christopher Morahan 3 12/02/1964 - 09/04/1968
James Ferman 3 06/16/1965 - 02/09/1966
Alan Bridges 2 11/27/1968 - 04/09/1969
Alan Clarke 2 10/01/1969 - 04/22/1970
Peter Watkins 2 10/06/1965
Philip Saville 2 11/04/1964
Peter Duguid 2 11/10/1965 - 04/13/1966
Geoffrey Nethercott 2 03/09/1966 - 10/19/1966
Ronald Eyre 2 10/28/1964
Alan Cooke 2 01/10/1968 - 04/30/1969
Jack Gold 2 02/01/1967 - 02/04/1970
John Mackenzie 2 04/05/1967 - 08/21/1968
Toby Richardson 2 05/26/1965 - 06/30/1965
Manwell Fraenkel 1 12/09/1964
Don Taylor 1 06/02/1965
Herbert Wise 1 02/18/1970
Donald McWhinnie 1 01/15/1969
Rudolph Cartier 1 12/09/1964
Mikhail Lermontov 1 09/28/1966
John Schlesinger 1 02/22/1967
John Glenister 1 02/08/1967
Henry de Montherlant 1 12/02/1964
Henric Hirsch 1 09/28/1966
Jean-Paul Sartre 1 11/04/1964
Lionel Harris 1 11/20/1968
Moira Armstrong 1 03/03/1965
Jean Anouilh 1 09/30/1964
Heinrich Fraenkel 1 12/09/1964
David Bendictus 1 09/30/1964
Michael Tuchner 1 04/02/1969
J.B. Priestley 1 09/25/1968
Pharic MacLaren 1 10/08/1969
Nikolai Leskov 1 10/28/1964
Marguerite Duras 1 02/22/1967
Mary Ridge 1 12/01/1965
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Dennis Potter 8 02/24/1965 - 04/16/1969
Jimmy O'Connor 3 01/06/1965 - 12/22/1965
David Mercer 3 06/02/1965 - 11/27/1968
Hugh Whitemore 3 02/03/1965 - 10/16/1968
Alan Seymour 2 04/21/1965 - 11/10/1965
David Rudkin 2 01/10/1968 - 04/30/1969
Nemone Lethbridge 2 12/14/1966 - 12/20/1967
William Trevor 2 09/11/1968 - 02/18/1970
Jim Allen 2 02/01/1967 - 02/19/1969
Michael Frayn 2 01/17/1968 - 02/12/1969
Fay Weldon 2 10/15/1967 - 01/15/1969
Madeleine Douglas 1 03/03/1965
Tom Murphy 1 03/22/1967
John Hopkins 1 01/27/1965
Tony Parker 1 08/21/1968
Julia Marian Jones 1 10/27/1965
Richard Harris 1 02/09/1966
James Broom Lynne 1 10/18/1967
Clive Exton 1 01/05/1966
Peter Nichols 1 09/04/1968
Eric Coltart 1 02/17/1965
Dawn Pavitt 1 12/01/1965
Michael Hastings 1 05/26/1965
Gordon Honeycombe 1 04/17/1968
Simon Raven 1 01/13/1965
Lewis Carroll 1 10/13/1965
Anthony Church 1 03/03/1965
Terence Dudley 1 10/19/1966
Alun Owen 1 01/14/1970
Roger Marvell 1 12/09/1964
Nigel Kneale 1 04/15/1970
Rosemary Hill 1 12/02/1964
Owen Holder 1 04/09/1969
David Stone 1 06/30/1965
Peter Everett 1 10/20/1965
Ian Dallas 1 09/28/1966
Stanley Myers 1 11/17/1965
John Prebble 1 11/25/1964
Christopher Logue 1 11/17/1965
Peter Luke 1 01/12/1966
Neville Smith 1 04/17/1968
Charles Wood 1 05/24/1967
Peter Terson 1 10/01/1969
James Hanley 1 03/09/1966
Nell Dunn 1 11/03/1965
Jean Benedetti 1 04/28/1965
Andrew Davies 1 02/08/1967
Roy Minton 1 04/02/1969
Frank O'Connor 1 02/02/1966
Alun Richards 1 11/18/1964
Philip Purser 1 01/26/1966
Ray Jenkins 1 10/08/1969
Don Shaw 1 04/22/1970
Jeremy Sandford 1 11/16/1966
Tom Clarke 1 02/04/1970
Hugh Leonard 1 05/11/1966
Brian Wright 1 04/13/1966
Gwyn Clark 1 09/25/1968
Leon Griffiths 1 04/05/1967
Fred Watson 1 11/24/1965

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