The Wednesday Play (Season 2)

The War Game (Episode 1)

Air date: 1965-10-06

Runtime: 75 min

Alice (Episode 2)

Writer: Dennis Potter

Air date: 1965-10-13

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

The Girl Who Loved Robots (Episode 3)

Writer: Peter Everett

Air date: 1965-10-20

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: 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.

A Designing Woman (Episode 4)

Writer: Julia Jones

Air date: 1965-10-27

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Milly has been at it again.

Up The Junction (Episode 5)

Writer: Nell Dunn

Air date: 1965-11-03

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.

The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne (Episode 6)

Writer: Alan Seymour

Air date: 1965-11-10

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.

The End of Arthur's Marriage (Episode 7)

Writer: Stanley Myers

Air date: 1965-11-17

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter.

Tomorrow, Just You Wait (Episode 8)

Writer: Fred Watson

Air date: 1965-11-24

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?

The Bond (Episode 9)

Writer: Terry Wale

Air date: 1965-12-01

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: 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.

Stand Up, Nigel Barton (Episode 10) 10.0

Writer: Dennis Potter

Air date: 1965-12-08

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which appal him.

Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton (Episode 11)

Writer: Dennis Potter

Air date: 1965-12-15

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

The Coming Out Party (Episode 12)

Writer: Jimmy O'Connor

Air date: 1965-12-22

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.

The Bone Yard (Episode 13)

Writer: Clive Exton

Air date: 1966-01-05

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Mrs. Miller wants to know why her husband has been working nights. PC Miller claims that a statue of Jesus on the cross has spoken to him in the graveyard. When senior officers and the church get involved, is he a prophet or a fraud?

A Man On Her Back (Episode 14)

Writer: William Sansom

Air date: 1966-01-12

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to contend with Colin, a charming ladies' man who turns to Mary in times of trouble.

Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero (Episode 15)

Writer: Brian Finch

Air date: 1966-01-19

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Anything Incorporated, an exclusive club devoted to providing the illegal and unattainable for its clients. Our intrepid hero, Rodney, is a newspaper journalist determined to expose the venture.

Calf Love (Episode 16)

Writer: Philip Purser

Air date: 1966-01-26

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.

Silent Song (Episode 17)

Writer: Hugh Leonard

Air date: 1966-02-02

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

Who's A Good Boy Then? (Episode 18)

Writer: Richard Harris

Air date: 1966-02-09

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.

A Game - Like - Only A Game (Episode 19)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1966-02-16

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

Why Aren't You Famous? (Episode 20)

Writer: Ernest Gebler

Air date: 1966-02-23

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.

Macready's Gala (Episode 21)

Writer: Hugh Whitemore

Air date: 1966-03-02

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

A Walk In The Sea (Episode 22)

Writer: James Hanley

Air date: 1966-03-09

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

Boy In The Smoke (Episode 23)

Writer: Patrick Galvin

Air date: 1966-03-16

Runtime: 75 min

Barlowe of the Car Park (Episode 24)

Writer: Paul Ableman

Air date: 1966-03-23

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

The Portsmouth Defence (Episode 25)

Writer: Nemone Lethbridge

Air date: 1966-03-30

Overview: After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.

Pity About The Abbey (Episode 26)

Writer: Stewart Farrar

Air date: 1966-04-06

Overview: Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.

The Big Man Coughed and Died (Episode 27)

Writer: Brian Wright

Air date: 1966-04-13

Overview: Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

The Snow Ball (Episode 28)

Writer: Katharine Blake

Air date: 1966-04-20

Overview: A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

A Cheery Soul (Episode 29)

Writer: Patrick White

Air date: 1966-04-27

Overview: When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

The Connoiseur (Episode 30)

Writer: Hugo Charteris

Air date: 1966-05-04

Overview: A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.

The Retreat (Episode 31)

Writer: Hugh Leonard

Air date: 1966-05-11

Overview: A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

Ape and Essence (Episode 32)

Writer: Aldous Huxley

Air date: 1966-05-18

Overview: Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.

Toddler on the Run (Episode 33)

Air date: 1966-05-25

Overview: Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

The Executioner (Episode 34)

Air date: 1966-06-01

Overview: Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

Way Off Beat (Episode 35)

Air date: 1966-06-08

Overview: Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel (Episode 36)

Writer: Simon Raven

Air date: 1966-06-15

Overview: A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.

Cock, Hen and Counting Pit (Episode 37)

Writer: David Halliwell

Air date: 1966-06-22

Overview: A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.