The Wednesday Play Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Tap on the Shoulder

75 mins

Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire. He learns that he's getting a knighthood so invites some old associates to country house unaware they are planning a robbery.

Episode 2

Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...

75 mins

A group of politicians and university dons argue over whether a new university should have a chapel or a state-of-the-art lecture hall.

Episode 3

The Navigators

Presenting a tale of romance between two working class navvies.

Episode 4

Fable

75 mins

In Great Britain, a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites being subservient.

Episode 5

Dan, Dan, the Charity Man

75 mins

Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?

Episode 6

Ashes to Ashes

75 mins

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.

Episode 7

Wear a Very Big Hat

75 mins

A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

Episode 8

The Confidence Course

61 mins

Three swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be the critic-essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.

Episode 9

Campaign for One

75 mins

Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.

Episode 10

Horror of Darkness

70 mins

Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.

Episode 11

A Little Temptation

75 mins

A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.

Episode 12

Moving On

80 mins

A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.

Episode 13

The Cat's Cradle

75 mins

A couple move to the country, but the wife feels isolated and finds companionship with her cat.

Episode 14

3 Clear Sundays

85 mins

A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.

Episode 15

The Interior Decorator

75 mins

An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.

Episode 16

Auto-Stop

75 mins

A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.

Episode 17

The Good Shoemaker and the Poor Fish Peddler

75 mins

An account of the shocking Sacco-Vanzetti case of the 1920s, where two working-class Italian immigrants to the US were executed after seven years on Death Row.

Episode 18

Cemented with Love

85 mins

It is general election night in a constituency in Northern Ireland.

Episode 19

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

75 mins

Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.

Episode 20

For the West

75 mins

White mercenary forces prepare to attack rebel, pro-Lumumbist troops in the Congo.

Episode 21

And Did Those Feet?

105 mins

Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.

Episode 22

The Man Without Papers

75 mins

Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?

Episode 23

The Pistol

75 mins

A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Episode 24

The Seven O'Clock Crunch

75 mins

Martin has a mid-life crisis.