Episodes
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1. The Parachute
6 Aug 1969 · 75 min
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2. Pitchi Poi
24 Sept 1969 · 75 min
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3. The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
1 Oct 1969 · 75 min
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.
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4. Patterson O.K.
8 Oct 1969 · 75 min
A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.
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5. The Mark II Wife
15 Oct 1969 · 75 min
A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.
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6. Close the Coalhouse Door
23 Oct 1969 · 75 min
The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
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7. The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
30 Oct 1969 · 75 min
A schoolmaster takes to drink.
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8. All Out for Kangaroo Valley
5 Nov 1969 · 75 min
Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.
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9. Happy
12 Nov 1969 · 75 min
The story of an up-and-coming businessman.
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10. There Is Also Tomorrow
19 Nov 1969 · 75 min
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
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11. The Compartment/Playmates
26 Nov 1969 · 75 min
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
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12. Blood of the Lamb
3 Dec 1969 · 75 min
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.
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13. The Vortex
10 Dec 1969 · 75 min
Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.
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14. It Wasn't Me
17 Dec 1969 · 75 min
A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.
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15. The Season of the Witch
7 Jan 1970 · 75 min
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
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16. Mille Miglia
14 Jan 1970 · 75 min
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17. The Hunting of Lionel Crane
21 Jan 1970 · 75 min
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
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18. Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
28 Jan 1970 · 75 min
A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.
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19. Mad Jack
4 Feb 1970 · 75 min
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War
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20. Nathan and Tabileth
11 Feb 1970 · 75 min
A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.
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21. The Italian Table
18 Feb 1970 · 75 min
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.
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22. The Boy Who Wanted Peace
25 Feb 1970 · 75 min
Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.
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23. The Cellar and the Almond Tree
4 Mar 1970 · 75 min
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.
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24. The Year of the Sex Olympics
11 Mar 1970 · 75 min
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25. No Trams to Lime Street
18 Mar 1970 · 75 min
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
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26. To See How Far It Is 1: Murphy's Law
25 Mar 1970 · 75 min
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27. To See How Far It Is 2: The Curse of the Donkins
1 Apr 1970 · 75 min
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28. To See How Far It Is 3: To See How Far It Is
8 Apr 1970 · 75 min
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29. Wine of India
15 Apr 1970
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.
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30. Sovereign's Company
22 Apr 1970
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.
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31. Party Games
29 Apr 1970
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32. Emma's Time
6 May 1970
Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
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33. Chariot of Fire
13 May 1970
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
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34. Wind Vs. Polygamy
27 May 1970
The Wednesday Play Season 6: quick answers
How many episodes are in The Wednesday Play Season 6?
Season 6 of The Wednesday Play has 34 episodes, about 35 hours in total.
When did The Wednesday Play Season 6 come out?
Season 6 premiered on 6 Aug 1969.