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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.
The Wednesday Play. Home. Episodes. Clips. The Wednesday Play Episodes Episode guide. All. Available now(1) Next on (0) A Tap on the Shoulder. A group of criminals plan a robbery with the...
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.
BBC. Género. Serie de TV. Drama | Serie de antología. Sinopsis. Serie de TV (1964-1970). 171 episodios. Serie británica de antología de la BBC que contó con un importante y conocido grupo de guionistas y de directores. A menudo se trataban temas de problemática social. (FILMAFFINITY) Premios.
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 ...
Wednesday Play, The (1964-70) 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. Seasons Years Top-rated. 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971. S2.E1 ∙ Tap on the Shoulder. Wed, Jan 6, 1965. Archibald Cooper is a London gangster who is living the life of a country squire while running a criminal empire.
