The Wednesday Play (Season 6)

The Parachute (Episode 1)

Air date: 1969-08-06

Runtime: 75 min

Pitchi Poi (Episode 2)

Air date: 1969-09-24

Runtime: 75 min

The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel (Episode 3)

Writer: Peter Terson

Air date: 1969-10-01

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

Patterson O.K. (Episode 4)

Writer: Ray Jenkins

Air date: 1969-10-08

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

The Mark II Wife (Episode 5)

Writer: William Trevor

Air date: 1969-10-15

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

Close the Coalhouse Door (Episode 6)

Writer: Alan Plater

Air date: 1969-10-23

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury (Episode 7)

Writer: John Gorrie

Air date: 1969-10-30

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A schoolmaster takes to drink.

All Out for Kangaroo Valley (Episode 8)

Writer: Noel Robinson

Air date: 1969-11-05

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

Happy (Episode 9)

Air date: 1969-11-12

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

There Is Also Tomorrow (Episode 10)

Writer: Hugo Charteris

Air date: 1969-11-19

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

The Compartment/Playmates (Episode 11)

Writer: Johnny Speight

Air date: 1969-11-26

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther

Blood of the Lamb (Episode 12)

Writer: Leon Whiteson

Air date: 1969-12-03

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

The Vortex (Episode 13)

Writer: Noël Coward

Air date: 1969-12-10

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

It Wasn't Me (Episode 14)

Air date: 1969-12-17

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

The Season of the Witch (Episode 15)

Writer: Desmond McCarthy

Air date: 1970-01-07

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

Mille Miglia (Episode 16)

Air date: 1970-01-14

Runtime: 75 min

The Hunting of Lionel Crane (Episode 17)

Writer: Roy Minton

Air date: 1970-01-21

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred (Episode 18)

Writer: Alan Plater

Air date: 1970-01-28

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

Mad Jack (Episode 19)

Air date: 1970-02-04

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

Nathan and Tabileth (Episode 20)

Writer: Barry Bermange

Air date: 1970-02-11

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

The Italian Table (Episode 21)

Writer: William Trevor

Air date: 1970-02-18

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

The Boy Who Wanted Peace (Episode 22)

Writer: George Friel

Air date: 1970-02-25

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

The Cellar and the Almond Tree (Episode 23)

Writer: David Mercer

Air date: 1970-03-04

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

The Year of the Sex Olympics (Episode 24)

Air date: 1970-03-11

Runtime: 75 min

No Trams to Lime Street (Episode 25)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1970-03-18

Runtime: 75 min

Overview: Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law (Episode 26)

Air date: 1970-03-25

Runtime: 75 min

To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins (Episode 27)

Air date: 1970-04-01

Runtime: 75 min

To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is (Episode 28)

Air date: 1970-04-08

Runtime: 75 min

Wine of India (Episode 29)

Writer: Nigel Kneale

Air date: 1970-04-15

Overview: In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

Sovereign's Company (Episode 30)

Writer: Don Shaw

Air date: 1970-04-22

Overview: A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

Party Games (Episode 31)

Air date: 1970-04-29

Emma's Time (Episode 32)

Writer: David Mercer

Air date: 1970-05-06

Overview: Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

Chariot of Fire (Episode 33)

Writer: Tony Parker

Air date: 1970-05-13

Overview: A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

Wind Vs. Polygamy (Episode 34)

Air date: 1970-05-27