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The Wednesday Play Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 1964 - 1964
Episode 1
Catch as Catch Can
75 mins
Todays theme is Catch as Catch Can.
Episode 2
A Crack in the Ice
Fri, Dec 13, 196885 mins
A soldier named Postnikov has rescued a drowning man.
Episode 3
In Camera
85 mins
Three people, a man convicted of cowardice, a lesbian and a self obsessed blonde are put in a small, stark room with a few garish modern artworks and three benches. All have died and are in Hell, but instead of devils, fire, brimstone and physical torture, they spend eternity there with each other's loathsome company.
Episode 4
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
85 mins
Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Episode 5
The Big Breaker
90 mins
A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.
Episode 6
Mr. Douglas
70 mins
It is Coronation Day, 1761, and a merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.
Episode 7
Malatesta
95 mins
Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.
Episode 8
The July Plot
95 mins
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
Episode 9
First Love
85 mins
A study of a boy's passion for an older girl as he discovers the difference between infatuation and true love.