Episodes
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1. The War Game
6 Oct 1965 · 75 min
Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins. Depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, it was withdrawn from the broadcast schedule due to fear by the BBC and the British Government that it was too horrifying for TV. It premiered at a London cinema six months later and was shown at film festivals, winning a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. It then won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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2. Alice
13 Oct 1965 · 75 min
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.
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3. The Girl Who Loved Robots
20 Oct 1965 · 75 min
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.
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4. A Designing Woman
27 Oct 1965 · 75 min
Milly has been at it again.
5. Up The Junction
3 Nov 1965 · 75 min
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.
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6. The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
10 Nov 1965 · 75 min
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
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7. The End of Arthur's Marriage
17 Nov 1965 · 75 min
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.
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8. Tomorrow, Just You Wait
24 Nov 1965 · 75 min
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
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9. The Bond
1 Dec 1965 · 75 min
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.
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10. Stand Up, Nigel Barton
8 Dec 1965 · 75 min · 10.0/10
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.
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11. Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton
15 Dec 1965 · 75 min
Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
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12. The Coming Out Party
22 Dec 1965 · 75 min
A boy begins a search in Notting Hill shortly before Christmas.
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13. The Bone Yard
5 Jan 1966 · 75 min
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?
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14. A Man On Her Back
12 Jan 1966 · 75 min
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.
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15. Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero
19 Jan 1966 · 75 min
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.
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16. Calf Love
26 Jan 1966 · 75 min
A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters.
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17. Silent Song
2 Feb 1966 · 75 min
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
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18. Who's A Good Boy Then?
9 Feb 1966 · 75 min
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.
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19. A Game - Like - Only A Game
16 Feb 1966 · 75 min
Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.
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20. Why Aren't You Famous?
23 Feb 1966 · 75 min
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.
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21. Macready's Gala
2 Mar 1966 · 75 min
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
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22. A Walk In The Sea
9 Mar 1966 · 75 min
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.
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23. Boy In The Smoke
16 Mar 1966 · 75 min
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24. Barlowe of the Car Park
23 Mar 1966 · 75 min
We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.
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25. The Portsmouth Defence
30 Mar 1966
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.
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26. Pity About The Abbey
6 Apr 1966
Satirical play in which businessmen want to destroy Westminster Abbey to make way for a bypass.
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27. The Big Man Coughed and Died
13 Apr 1966
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
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28. The Snow Ball
20 Apr 1966
A passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.
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29. A Cheery Soul
27 Apr 1966
When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.
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30. The Connoiseur
4 May 1966
A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.
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31. The Retreat
11 May 1966
A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.
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32. Ape and Essence
18 May 1966
Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.
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33. Toddler on the Run
25 May 1966
Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.
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34. The Executioner
1 Jun 1966
Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
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35. Way Off Beat
8 Jun 1966
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
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36. A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
15 Jun 1966
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.
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37. Cock, Hen and Counting Pit
22 Jun 1966
A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.
The Wednesday Play Season 2: quick answers
How many episodes are in The Wednesday Play Season 2?
Season 2 of The Wednesday Play has 37 episodes, about 30 hours in total.
When did The Wednesday Play Season 2 come out?
Season 2 premiered on 6 Oct 1965.