The Wednesday Play (1964)
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The Wednesday Play (1964)
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The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
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Cast & Crew.
George Webb
Jim Ritchie
Sydney Newman
Creator
Edwin Brown
Chief Prison Officer
Ken Jones
Alec - Gravedigger
Michael Robbins
Albert Barking
Alec Coleman
Gambler
Paddy Joyce
Docker
Griffith Davies
Jackie Coulson
Alan Selwyn
Gambler
Ken Loach
Director
John Gorrie
Director
Christopher Morahan
Director
Henric Hirsch
Director
James Ferman
Director
Claude Whatham
Director
Ronald Eyre
Director
Moira Armstrong
Director
Don Taylor
Director
Jimmy O'Connor
Writer
John Hopkins
Writer
David Mercer
Writer
Hugh Whitemore
Writer
Dennis Potter
Writer
Lewis Carroll
Novel
John Brandon
Sergeant Musso
Robert Arden
Captain Danziger
Mary Holder
Mrs. Watmuff
Lionel Stander
General Burroughs
Trisha Noble
Francoise Clouet
Robert Raglan
Tom-Tom
Julian Glover
James
Alfred Lynch
Peter Young
Glenda Jackson
Cathy
Tony Selby
Harry
Hal Galili
Wendell / Private First Class O'Brien
Judy Parfitt
Dorothy Gorbet
Joss Ackland
Cornelius / Tom Gorbet
Sheila Burrell
Liz
Diane Keen
Judy
David Ellison
Photographer
Ann Morrish
Mary
Barrie Ingham
Colin / Charlie
Caroline Blakiston
Matilda Boff
Donald Douglas
Adrian Brinton
Kenneth Colley
Bethold Florenberg
Arthur Lowe
Colonel Harrup
John Savident
Mr. Miller / Hans Von Dorring / Mr. Brummitt
Roland Culver
Arthur Maybury
Jeffrey Segal
Mr. Dumpton
Jeremy Child
2nd Man
Leo McKern
Robert Kelvin
Thorley Walters
Holland
Rosalind Knight
Barbara
Ray Brooks
Reg
Noel Howlett
Lord Chief Justice / Dr. Evans
Geoffrey Palmer
Property Agent
Tim Brooke-Taylor
(uncredited)
Barry Jackson
John Black / Rent Collector / Cossack
Pauline Collins
Joan Percival
Barbara Lott
Miss Hepworth
Michael Bates
Joe
Warren Clarke
Alec
George Layton
Pete
Robert Hardy
Nick Prockter
Michael Graham Cox
Bernard Davis
David McKail
Bruce Fairlight
John Gielgud
Gabriel Quantara
Felicity Kendal
The Girl
Timothy Bateson
Barnet
Michael Jayston
Siegfried Sassoon
Nigel Stock
Elvet
Ann Beach
Music Hall Artiste
Glynn Edwards
Bernie the Tweedler
Mona Bruce
3rd Investor
Erik Chitty
Old Bailey Judge
Norman Rossington
Danny Fowler
Kenneth Griffith
Mr. Jones
Marius Goring
Reverend Harrup
Michael Stainton
Policeman
Robert Ayres
Judge Webster Thayer
Hal Hamilton
Jeremiah McAnarney
Patrick Barr
David Lancaster / Joe / Producer
George Baker
Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Daphne Heard
Mrs. Edgell / Nan
Deborah Watling
Alice Liddell
Tessa Wyatt
Lorina Liddell
John Moffatt
Mr. Stotman
John Phillips
Councillor Percival / Cardinal Runan
Michael Segal
1st Questioner
John Bailey
Jack Hay / Humphrey Wiles, Counsel for Defence / Mad Hatter / Inspector Cardles / Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Aimée Delamain
Mrs. Morris
Percy Herbert
Colour Sergeant David Mackison
Dudley Sutton
Corporal Tom Oates
Basil Henson
Major Andrew Carlyle / Inspector
Nick Tate
Private Trevor James
Brenda Bruce
Mollie
Christian Rodska
Rufus
Keith Barron
Nigel Barton / Tom
David Kelly
Finbar / Miko
T. P. McKenna
John Joe Moran
Fionnula Flanagan
Mona
Geoffrey Chater
Richard Browning
Ballard Berkeley
First Committee Member
Jimmy Gardner
Stanley Wood
Frank Mills
Prison Gate Officer
Paul Angelis
Tristram
Clive Graham
David Lewis
Michael Elwyn
Gareth Pownall
Richard Davies
Mr. Black / Harry Jenkins / Registrar
Roy Dotrice
Dad
Colin Farrell
Eric
Rosemary Leach
Jean Marfield / Katharine Elliott / Shelley Mitchell / Jess
Mary Webster
Val Selwyn
Angela Pleasence
Liz
Tariq Yunus
Student
Rupert Davies
Councillor Wally Cross
Scott Forbes
Paris Belmont
Arthur White
Tregembo
Guy Middleton
Wendy Richard
William Gaunt
Edwin Richfield
Victor Maddern
Jack Gwillim
Steven Berkoff
Judy Geeson
David Jackson
John Hollis
Freddie Jones
Charles Lloyd Pack
Gordon Gostelow
John Abineri
Cyril Shaps
Royston Tickner
Glyn Houston
John Castle
William Moore
Philip Latham
Jack Watson
Joseph Fürst
Nicholas Smith
Angelo Muscat
Hywel Bennett
Willoughby Goddard
Godfrey Quigley
George Sewell
George Coulouris
Ian McShane
John Lee
Eric Thompson
Jo Rowbottom
Walter Sparrow
Hannah Gordon
Aubrey Richards
Richard Caldicot
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Cyril Luckham
Declan Mulholland
Annette Crosbie
Jonathan Adams
Details.
Release DateSeptember 30, 1964
StatusEnded
Seasons6
Episodes187
Running Time1h 15m
Genres
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Wiki.
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 series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Some of British television drama's most influential, and controversial, plays were shown in this slot, including Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home. The earliest television plays of Dennis Potter were featured in this slot.
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