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The Wednesday Play Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 1966 - 1967
Episode 1
Where the Buffalo Roam
75 mins
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.
Episode 2
The Head Waiter
45 mins
It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvelous tales to tell a young boy.
Episode 3
Cathy Come Home
Fri, Mar 28, 196975 mins
A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms.
Episode 4
The Private Tutor
70 mins
A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.
Episode 5
A Pyre for Private James
70 mins
A major faces a court martial, accused of the willful murder of Private James.
Episode 6
A Tale of Two Wives
75 mins
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.
Episode 7
Little Master Mind
75 mins
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.
Episode 8
The Mayfly and the Frog
Fri, Oct 11, 196875 mins
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.
Episode 10
Person to Person
70 mins
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.
Episode 11
The Order
75 mins
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.
Episode 12
Everybody's Rich Except Us
75 mins
Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.
Episode 13
The Lump
75 mins
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.
Episode 14
Who's Going to Take Me On?
50 mins
The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.
Episode 15
Death of a Teddy Bear
80 mins
Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.
Episode 16
Days in the Trees
85 mins
A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.
Episode 17
In Two Minds
73 mins
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.
Episode 18
Another Day, Another Dollar
75 mins
A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.
Episode 19
Public Inquiry
75 mins
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.
Episode 20
A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant
75 mins
John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.
Episode 21
A Breach in the Wall
70 mins
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?
Episode 22
The Voices in the Park
75 mins
The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
Episode 23
Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness
50 mins
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.
Episode 24
A Brilliant Future Behind Him
65 mins
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.
Episode 25
Message for Posterity
79 mins
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.
Episode 26
A Way with the Ladies
75 mins
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.
Episode 27
The Playground
75 mins
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.
Episode 28
Drums Along the Avon
75 mins
A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.