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The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured.
- English
- BBC 1
- 28 October 1964 –, 27 May 1970
The Wednesday Play: Created by Sydney Newman. With Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John Hopkins.
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- 3 min
- Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby
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A woman is attacked in the Forest of Dean, in Dennis Potter's play set in the 1890s.
The Wednesday Play. Serie de TV - Serie de obras de teatro únicas realizadas por la televisión de la BBC, que dio descanso a una amplia gama de escritores y directores a fines de la década de 1960, como Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer y John Hopkins.
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The Wednesday Play was known for uncompromising dramas reflecting burning contemporary issues in a Britain undergoing massive social change. Plays like Cathy Come Home and The Big Flame, just two of Ken Loach’s nine surviving Wednesday Plays – all available in the Mediatheque – challenged the old order, while writers like David Mercer and ...
The BBC's Wednesday Play is synonymous with 1960s television. Its name evokes memories of sensational drama and controversy, but its range was much broader than that, encompassing many genres and styles.
The Wednesday Play. Strand of groundbreaking and often controversial television dramas. The Vortex (72 mins) Start watching. Watchlist. Extras.
