The Wednesday Play (Season 5)

Mrs Lawrence Will Look After It (Episode 1)

Writer: Tony Parker

Air date: 1968-08-21

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.

Spoiled (Episode 2)

Writer: Simon Gray

Air date: 1968-08-28

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.

The Gorge (Episode 3)

Writer: Peter Nichols

Air date: 1968-09-04

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.

A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka (Episode 4)

Writer: William Trevor

Air date: 1968-09-11

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A lonely bachelor, seeking his long-lost sweetheart at a boarding house, meets a serial divorcée.

Charlie (Episode 5)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1968-09-18

Overview: James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.

Anyone For Tennis? (Episode 6)

Writer: J. B. Priestley

Air date: 1968-09-25

Overview: Garry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?

Mooney and his Caravans (Episode 7)

Writer: Peter Terson

Air date: 1968-10-02

Overview: A couple move to a caravan park, where the owner is a petty dictator.

The Lower Largo Sequence (Episode 8)

Writer: Edward Boyd

Air date: 1968-10-09

Overview: A man seeks his inner island.

Hello, Good Evening and Welcome (Episode 9)

Writer: Hugh Whitemore

Air date: 1968-10-16

Overview: A talk-show host is required to examine his conscience and also the ethics of "good television".

A Bit of Crucifixion, Father (Episode 10)

Writer: Julia Jones

Air date: 1968-10-23

Overview: A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.

Nothing Will be The Same (Episode 11)

Writer: James Hanley

Air date: 1968-10-30

Overview: A family becomes increasingly suspicious of the relationship between the mother and a mysterious stranger who starts to follow her around.

A Beast With Two Backs (Episode 12)

Writer: Dennis Potter

Air date: 1968-11-06

Overview: An isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.

On the Eve of Publication (Episode 13)

Writer: David Mercer

Air date: 1968-11-27

Overview: An author hosts a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his new novel.

The Fabulous Frump (Episode 14)

Writer: James Gibbons

Air date: 1969-01-08

Overview: A fashion editor competes for the affections of a designer with their new male model.

Smoke Screen (Episode 15)

Writer: Fay Weldon

Air date: 1969-01-15

Overview: A successful advertising executive who promotes a brand of cigarettes is reproached by his family when his mother contracts terminal lung cancer.

Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter (Episode 16)

Writer: Hugo Charteris

Air date: 1969-01-21

Overview: After a year as a Volunteer Service Overseas worker, a young woman returns home in search of love and understanding.

The Apprentices (Episode 17)

Writer: Peter Terson

Air date: 1969-01-29

Overview: A portrait of the life of some Northern apprentices.

Birthday (Episode 18)

Writer: Michael Frayn

Air date: 1969-02-05

Overview: A woman unwittingly springs a surprise at her sister's 27th birthday party.

The Big Flame (Episode 19)

Writer: Jim Allen

Air date: 1969-02-12

Overview: Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.

A Serpent in Putney (Episode 20)

Writer: Fred Watson

Air date: 1969-02-19

Overview: An off-beat romance in bed-sitter land.

Bami Powl Zapl (Episode 21)

Writer: Nigel Kneale

Air date: 1969-03-05

Overview: A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

Cathy Come Home (Episode 22)

Writer: Ken Loach

Air date: 1969-03-28

Overview: A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

Sling Your Hook (Episode 23)

Writer: Roy Minton

Air date: 1969-04-02

Overview: A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

A Child and a Half (Episode 24)

Writer: Barry Letts

Air date: 1969-04-09

Overview: A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.

Son of Man (Episode 25)

Writer: Dennis Potter

Air date: 1969-04-16

Overview: Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.

The Exiles (Episode 26)

Writer: Errol John

Air date: 1969-04-23

Overview: Three Trinidadians consider what it means to be exiles in an essentially white society.

Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (Episode 27)

Writer: David Rudkin

Air date: 1969-04-30

Overview: The daughter of a religious Welsh family becomes the centrepiece of a bizarre student festival.