The Wednesday Play

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 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.

History

Origins and early series

The series was suggested to the BBC's Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, by the corporation's director of television Kenneth Adam after his cancellation of the two previous series of single plays. Newman had been persuaded to join the BBC following the success of the similar programme Armchair Theatre, which he had produced while Head of Drama at ABC Weekend TV from 1958 to 1962. Armchair Theatre had tackled many difficult and socially relevant subjects in the then-popular 'kitchen sink' style, and still managed to gain a mass audience on the ITV network, and Newman wanted a programme that would be able to tackle similar issues with a broad appeal. Newman also wanted to get away from the BBC's reputation of producing safe and unchallenging drama programmes, to produce something with more bite and vigour, what Newman called "agitational contemporaneity".
The Wednesday Play succeeded in meeting this aim, and the BBC quickly developed the practice of stockpiling six or seven Wednesday Plays in case there were problems with individual works. One production, The War Game, was withdrawn from broadcast by a nervous BBC under pressure from the government, while John Hopkins' Fable, an inversion of South Africa's Apartheid system, was delayed for several weeks over fears that it would incite racial tensions.
Intended as a vehicle for new writers, several careers began thanks to the series. Television programmes had a much shorter lead time in this era, and Dennis Potter's first four accepted television plays were shown during the course of 1965. The two Nigel Barton plays first brought him to widespread public attention and the slightly earlier [|Alice], about Lewis Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell, developed themes to which Potter would return.
In the first half of 1966 a series of 26 Wednesday Plays were produced by Peter Luke, the playwright, and story edited by David Benedictus. Highlights included The Snow Ball, adapted from the novel by Brigid Brophy, Toddler on the Run adapted by Shena Mackay from her novella and directed by James MacTaggart,, Cock Hen and Courting Pit by David Halliwell and two plays by Frank O'Connor virtually without dialogue and which, renamed Silent Song, won The Prix Italia award in 1967 for 'original dramatic programmes' jointly with a French programme. The other O'Connor/Leonard work was The Retreat. These two plays starred Milo O'Shea and Jack MacGowran. Cathy Come Home by Nell Dunn and Jeremy Sandford was offered to the Luke/Benedictus team who passed it on to Tony Garnett.

Tony Garnett and Ken Loach

Garnett was quickly seen as someone capable of delivering plays which would gain much publicity for the BBC and its Drama department. He had the enthusiastic support of Newman, his immediate superior, who lobbied for increased funding to allow for more location shooting on film rather than shooting productions in the multi-camera electronic television studio, a practice which was felt to impair realism, the preferred mode.
Director Ken Loach made ten plays in all for The Wednesday Play series. Two of them are among the best remembered of the entire run: an adaptation of Nell Dunn's Up the Junction, and the saga of a homeless young couple and their battle to prevent their children being taken into local authority care: Cathy Come Home. The latter began Loach's 13-year collaboration with Tony Garnett as his producer, although Garnett had been closely involved with Up the Junction as well.
Plays like Up the Junction though were controversial among more conservative viewers. The 'Clean-Up TV' campaigner Mary Whitehouse accused the BBC of portraying "promiscuity as normal" in Up the Junction and The Wednesday Play as featuring "Dirt, Doubt and Disbelief". The writer on television Anthony Hayward quoted Garnett in 2006: "Mary Whitehouse was on the prowl, which was an added frisson, but it was actually very good free publicity and helped the ratings." The "drama documentary" approach was criticised by television professionals who thought it was dishonest. In a Sunday Telegraph article published before its first repeat transmission Grace Wyndham Goldie complained that Cathy Come Home "deliberately blurs the distinction between fact and fiction... have a right to know whether what they are being offered is real or invented." Loach has admitted that "e were very anxious for our plays not to be considered dramas but as continuations of the news" which preceded The Wednesday Play's slot.

Later series

The last three years of the strand were predominantly produced by Irene Shubik and Graeme MacDonald; by this time the BBC Drama head Sydney Newman had left the BBC. Highlights from this period include several plays by David Mercer such as In Two Minds and Let's Murder Vivaldi and Potter's Son of Man, a modern interpretation of the story of Jesus.
Suffering from declining audience figures, the run of The Wednesday Play ended in 1970 when the day of transmission changed, and the series morphed into Play for Today.

Reputation and availability

It is regarded as one of the most influential and successful programmes to be produced in Britain during the 1960s and is still frequently referenced and discussed. In a 2000 poll of industry professionals conducted by the British Film Institute to find the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, two Wednesday Plays made the list: The War Game was placed twenty-seventh, and Cathy Come Home was voted the second greatest British television programme of the century.
Some examples of The Wednesday Play, such as The War Game and Cathy Come Home, a television play exploring the theme of housing and homelessness, were, according to filmmaker Roger Graef, "a giant wakeup call for the whole nation," and some of the Potter plays, surfaced on VHS and DVD; the Potter play, Alice was a bonus feature of a Region 1 DVD in 2010 of Jonathan Miller's surrealist version of Alice in Wonderland. The Ken Loach material has resurfaced in a Ken Loach at the BBC set, and the two plays directed by Alan Clarke in the Alan Clarke at the BBC set. However, as with much British television of this era, many episodes are lost, leaving 79 surviving in the archives out of 182 transmitted.

Productions

This table is based on records in the BBC Genome archive of the Radio Times. Titles billed as The Wednesday Play in the Radio Times listings for their first or a subsequent transmission are included, plus an additional two for the reasons given in the notes. Repeats of the individual productions are excluded, as are some additional repeats from Theatre 625 shown in the Wednesday Play slot during 1968–69 but not billed as such in the Radio Times. All episodes were broadcast on BBC1, with the introduction of colour from November 1969.
The archival status has been ascertained for almost all productions based on the BFI National Archive and TV Brain online databases. Most of the extant versions are in the form of 16mm or 35mm black & white telerecordings, or in a few cases original film versions where that was the original medium used for production. Some of the later plays exist in videotape formats.

Original air Date	Title	Author	Producer	Director	Performers	Notes	Archive status
	A Crack in the Ice	A story by Nikolai Leskov. Dramatised by Ronald Eyre.			Bill Fraser James Maxwell Derek Newark Michael Hordern Jack May Conrad Monk John Bay Peter Madden Richard Hurndall Eric Richard	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 4 June 1965.	Yes
	In Camera	by Jean-Paul Sartre. Adapted for television and directed by Philip Saville.			Harold Pinter Jane Arden Katherine Woodville Jonathan Hansen Andre Boulay David de Keyser	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 11 June 1965.	Yes
	Pale Horse, Pale Rider	Katherine Anne Porter			Joan Hackett Keir Dullea John Drainie Ruth Springford Deborah Turnbull Arch McDonell	A filmed production by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, first broadcast by CBC under Festival, 23 October 1963.	Unknown
	The Big Breaker	Alun Richards			Rupert Davies Nigel Stock Daphne Slater Edward Evans		Yes
	Mr. Douglas	John Prebble			Michael Goodliffe Jean Anderson Laurence Hardy Claire Nielson Gary Bond Margo Croan	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 30 July 1965.	Yes
	Malatesta	by Henry de Montherlant. translated by Jonathan Griffin. adapted by Rosemary Hill.			Patrick Wymark Jessica Dunning Cyril Shaps John Glyn-Jones John Hollis Edward Burnham Blake Butler Dallas Cavell Jack Melford Reginald Jessup David Grey Judy Geeson David March	Adapted from the play. Repeated under Encore on BBC2 28 May 1965.	missing
	The July Plot	by Roger Manvell. Based on the book by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel.			John Carson Charles Lloyd-Pack Peter Copley Joseph Fürst Cyril Luckham John Lee John Paul John Abineri Graham Leaman Jeffry Wickham		Yes
	First Love	From the story by Ivan Turgenev.			Heather Sears Richard Monette	Produced and directed for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, first broadcast by CBC under Festival, 22 January 1964.	Unknown
	Tap on the Shoulder	by James O'Connor			Lee Montague Richard Shaw Griffith Davies George Tovey Tony Selby Tom Bowman Noel Johnson Michael Mulcaster Lucy Griffiths Michael Collins Michael Goldie Tony Caunter	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 17 September 1965.	Yes or 35mm tr
	Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word…	Simon Raven			Michael Hordern Alec John McCowen Phillips Derek Francis James Maxwell Agnes Lauchlan Leonard Maguire Gerald Cross Felix Felton Colin Jeavons Christopher Benjamin Frank Williams Steven Berkoff		missing
	The Navigators	Julia Jones			George Baker Kathleen Byron Patience Collier Terence Woodfield	Shown instead of the originally scheduled Fable due to the latter's postponement, so not listed in the Radio Times but listed as a Wednesday Play in the BFI database.	missing
	Fable	John Hopkins			Thomas Baptiste Barbara Assoon Ronald Lacey Eileen Atkins Keith Barron Rudolph Walker Carmen Munroe Frank Singuineau	Postponed from 20 January 1965.	Yes
	Dan, Dan, the Charity Man	Hugh Whitemore			Barry Foster Ernest Clark Philip Locke Dora Reisser Antony Carrick Arthur Mullard Michael Barrington Michael Brennan	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 1 October 1965.	missing
	Ashes to Ashes	Marc Brandel			Toby Robins Scott Forbes Oscar Quitak Tony Steedman		Yes
	Wear a Very Big Hat	Eric Coltart			Neville Smith Sheila Fearn William Holmes Johnny Clive Malcolm Taylor Alan Lake Royston Tickner William Gaunt James Hall Ken Jones David Jackson	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 24 September 1965.	missing
	The Confidence Course	Dennis Potter			Dennis Price Stanley Baxter Neil McCarthy Yootha Joyce Gilly Flower Jack Le White		missing
	Campaign for One	Marielaine Douglas and Anthony Church			Barry Foster Jeremy Kemp David Bauer Jerry Stovin Robert Arden Thomasine Heiner George Roubicek David Garth	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 3 September 1965.	missing
	Horror of Darkness	John Hopkins			Alfred Lynch Nicol Williamson Glenda Jackson		Yes
	A Little Temptation	Thomas Clarke			Barbara Jefford Denholm Elliott Caroline Mortimer Michael Barrington Cheryl Molineaux	Recorded in BBC Scotland's Glasgow studios	Yes
	Moving On	Bill Mellen			Peter Jeffrey David Collings Godfrey Quigley Jack Watson Eric Thompson Kenneth Thornett Tony Wall James Appleby David Brewster Peter Diamond		missing
	Cat's Cradle	Hugo Charteris			Leo Genn Barbara Murray Rachel Thomas Billy Russell Sheila Dunn	Recorded in BBC Scotland's Glasgow studios	missing
	3 Clear Sundays	James O'Connor			Tony Selby Rita Webb Glynn Edwards George Sewell Kim Peacock Finuala O'Shannon Will Stampe Alec Ross Eric Mason Griffith Davies Ken Jones Harry Littlewood Michael Goldie George Tovey Jack Cunningham Haydn Jones Jack Melford Reg Lever Ben Howard Leslie Bates David J. Grahame Desmond Cullum-Jones James Appleby	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 16 July 1965.	Yes
	The Interior Decorator	Jack Russell			Barry Foster Jane Arden		Yes
	Auto-Stop	Alan Seymour			David Hemmings Delphi Lawrence Kevin Stoney Janice Dinnen Katherine Schofield Jonathan Burn Gertan Klauber		Yes
	The Good Shoemaker and the Poor Fish Peddler	Jean Benedetti			John Barrie Robert Ayres Cec Linder Bill Nagy John Bailey Robert Arden	Based on the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti.	missing
	Cemented with Love	Sam Thompson			Harold Goldblatt Elizabeth Begley Anton Rodgers J. G. Devlin Denys Hawthorne Paddy Joyce	Postponed from December 1964. Shown in The Wednesday Play slot and listed as such in the BFI database, although apparently not billed as such in the Radio Times, according to the BBC Genome database.	missing
	A Knight in Tarnished Armour	Alan Sharp			Paul Young Paul Curran Hamish Wilson Brian Cox Henry Stamper		missing
	For the West	Michael Hastings			John Castle Julian Glover Freddie Jones Edwin Richfield Roy Stewart Nigel Stock John Stratton Zena Walker Gordon Gostelow Declan Mulholland		missing
	And Did Those Feet?	David Mercer			David Markham Willoughby Goddard Patrick Troughton Sylvia Kay Jo Rowbottom Victor Lucas Anna Wing Jack May Kristopher Kum Donald Morley		Yes
	The Man Without Papers	Troy Kennedy Martin			Benito Carruthers Geraldine McEwan James Maxwell Charles Victor Ingrid Hafner John Woodnutt Tom Bowman Ian Fleming		partial
	The Pistol	A novel by James Jones. Adapted for television by Troy Kennedy Martin and Roger Smith.			Clive Endersby John Brandon Hal Galili Walter Sparrow Steven Berkoff Callen Angelo Robert Arden	Repeated under Encore on BBC2 10 September 1965.	Yes Incomplete prints - com-opt audio on studio sequences only, film sequences are mute, no music or effects.
	Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears				Katherine Blake Nigel Green Alan Baulch Margot Robinson Margaret Ward Margaret Denyer Michael Brennan Peter Thornton	Repeat of 27 September 1964 Theatre 625 production, substituting the advertised Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton due to the latter's late postponement.	Yes
	The Seven O'Clock Crunch	David Stone			Nigel Stock Peter Jeffrey Zena Walker Jan Waters Trevor Baxter June Brown		missing
	Alice	Dennis Potter			George Baker Rosalie Crutchley David Langton Deborah Watling John Bailey Tony Anholt		Yes
	The Girl Who Loved Robots	Peter Everett			Dudley Foster Isobel Black Norman Rodway Michael Guest David Dodimead John Bryans Geoffrey Hinsliff Kevin Stoney Howard Charlton		missing
	A Designing Woman	Julia Jones			Reginald Marsh Rhoda Lewis John Collin		missing
	Up the Junction	Nell Dunn			Carol White Geraldine Sherman Vickery Turner Tony Selby Michael Standing Ray Barron Rita Webb Hilda Barry Jessie Robins Sheila Grant George Sewell Frank Jarvis George Tovey Ben Howard James Haswell Will Stampe Gilly Fraser Anna Wing Reg Cranfield James Appleby	Based on the book. Repeated also 14 July 1993 on BBC2.	Yes
	The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne	Alan Seymour			Jack Hawkins Ian McKellen Faith Brook Mary Hinton Meredith Edwards Robert James Morris Perry Richard Coe Alan Mason Rex Robinson Milton Johns Bill Lyons Kenneth Benda Penelope Lee		Yes
	The End of Arthur's Marriage	Christopher Logue and Stanley Myers			Ken Jones Maureen Ampleford Edward de Souza Fanny Carby Toni Palmer Lucy Griffiths Nicholas Courtney Neville Smith		Yes
	Tomorrow, Just You Wait	Fred Watson			James Chase Janina Faye Amelia Bayntun Tony Selby Charles Lamb Joss Ackland Judy Parfitt Gábor Baraker		Yes
	The Bond	Dawn Pavitt and Terry Wale			Hannah Gordon Barry Lowe Nancie Jackson Campbell Singer Joan Young William Marlowe Annette Crosbie Angus MacKay George Selway Geoffrey Cheshire Ian Frost John Flint Peter Forbes-Robertson Kenton Moore		Yes
	Stand Up, Nigel Barton	Dennis Potter			Keith Barron Jack Woolgar Katherine Parr Janet Henfrey Johnnie Wade Godfrey James Llewellyn Rees Brian Badcoe Peter Madden Alan Lake Ian Fairbairn Michael Davis Sheila Dunn	Repeated 11 August 1987 on BBC1, and also 12 June 2004 and 31 January 2005 on BBC4.	Yes
	Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton	Dennis Potter			Keith Barron Valerie Gearon John Bailey Cyril Luckham Donald Hewlett Betty Bowden Aimée Delamain	Postponed from 23 June 1965. Repeated 18 August 1987 on BBC1, and also 15 June 2004 and 31 January 2005 on BBC4.	Yes
	The Coming Out Party	James O'Connor			Toni Palmer George Sewell Dennis Golding Will Stampe Alec Ross Griffith Davies George Tovey Aubrey Richards Fanny Carby Ray Barron Frank Jarvis Patrick O'Connell		Yes or 35mm tr
	The Boneyard	Clive Exton			Nigel Davenport Neil McCarthy Michael Robbins John Le Mesurier	Originally scheduled for 30 September 1964 but postponed.	missing
	A Man on Her Back	by Peter Luke. From a novel by William Sansom.			Norman Rodway Valerie Gearon Barrie Ingham Jo Rowbottom Milo Sperber Hana Maria Pravda Douglas Ditta John Baker		Yes
	Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero	Brian Finch			Graham Crowden Danny Green Jim Norton Jacqueline Ellis Kristopher Kum Derek Ware Alf Joint Lucy Griffiths		missing
	Calf Love	Philip Purser. From a novel by Vernon Bartlett.			Simon Ward Warren Mitchell Madeleine Christie Isobel Black Deborah Watling Eileen Way Nigel Lambert Lisa Daniely		Yes
	Silent Song	Frank O'Connor and Hugh Leonard			Tony Selby Leo McCabe Milo O'Shea Jack MacGowran		Yes
	Who's a Good Boy Then? I am	Richard Harris			Thora Hird Ron Moody Ronald Lacey		Yes
	A Game - Like - Only a Game	John Hopkins			Susan Richards Alethea Charlton Stanley Meadows Shelagh Fraser Geoffrey Hibbert David Webb Peter Ducrow Jack Wild		missing
	Why Aren't You Famous?	Ernie Gebler			Alan Dobie Fionnula Flanagan Martin Benson John Forgeham		missing
	Macready's Gala	Hugh Whitemore			Richard Pearson John Le Mesurier Barbara Couper Jane Eccles Donald Eccles		Yes
	A Walk in the Sea	James Hanley			Mora Nicholson Kenneth Griffith Marius Goring Peter Hawkins Howard Lang Harry Littlewood Keith Pyott		missing
	Boy in the Smoke	Patrick Galvin			Sean Caffrey Ray Mort John Sharp Tony Steedman John Barrard Frank Jarvis Paddy Joyce Allan Mitchell	Repeat; first shown in the series Londoners on BBC2 13 May 1965.	missing
	Barlowe of the Car Park	Paul Ableman			Jack Woolgar Annabel Maule Betty Romaine Annette Robertson Donald Hewlett Michael Robbins		missing
	The Portsmouth Defence	Nemone Lethbridge			Emrys James Fanny Carby Deborah Cranston Maureen Ampleford Michael Coles Jerome Willis Yootha Joyce Roy Evans Clifton Jones John Woodnutt John Garvin		Yes
	Pity about the Abbey	John Betjeman and Stewart Farrar			Henry McGee John Harvey Suzanne Mockler Derek Francis Pamela Ann Davy	Repeat; first shown in the series Londoners on BBC2 29 July 1965.	Yes
	The Big Man Coughed and Died	Brian Wright			George Baker Eileen Atkins John Sharp Diana Coupland Nicholas Smith Harry Towb Philip Anthony Martin Friend		Yes
	The Snow Ball	Brigid Brophy Dramatised by Ursula Gray.			Patrick Allen Katherine Blake Clare Kelly Trisha Noble		Yes
	A Cheery Soul	Patrick White Adapted by Jonquil Antony			Hazel Hughes Aubrey Richards Lucy Griffiths May Warden Jack Bligh	Adapted from the play.	missing
	The Connoisseur	Hugo Charteris			Derek Francis Rosalie Crutchley Michael Goodliffe Richard O'Sullivan Ian Ogilvy Rosalie Westwater Stephen Whittaker		Yes
	The Retreat	Hugh Leonard			Gerry Sullivan Harry Webster Juno Tobin Gerry Duggan David Kelly		Yes
	Ape and Essence	Aldous Huxley Dramatised by John Finch.			Alec McCowen Robert Eddison Derek Sydney Petra Markham Sydney Bromley Yvonne Antrobus	Adapted from the novel.	missing
	Toddler on the Run	From the novel by Shena Mackay.			Ian Trigger Anneke Wills Jerome Willis Iain Cuthbertson Renu Setna Mona Bruce Michael Robbins		Yes
	The Executioner	Robert Muller			Rosalie Crutchley Sandor Elès Elizabeth Bell David Garfield Meier Tzelniker Eileen Way Steven Scott David de Keyser		missing
	Way Off Beat	David Turner			Brenda Bruce Sydney Tafler Helen Fraser Gordon Reid Stephanie Bidmead Jimmy Hanley Noel Johnson		Yes
	A Soiree at Bossom's Hotel	Simon Raven			Fabia Drake Raymond Huntley Sarah Lawson Wallas Eaton Sally Bazeley Roddy Maude-Roxby Barbara Couper Clive Morton Henry McGee Jeremy Young		missing
	Cock, Hen, and Courting Pit	David Halliwell			Nicola Pagett Maurice Roëves June Murphy Clifford Cox		Yes
	Photo Finish	Peter Ustinov			Paul Rogers Robert Brown James Maxwell Simon Prebble Peter Ashmore Barbara Couper Daphne Slater Meg Wynn Owen Alice Montego Priscilla Morgan Michael Bates	Repeat; first shown as a Thursday Theatre on BBC2 28 January 1965.	missing
	A Hero of Our Time	Ian Dallas. Based on the novel by Mihail Lermontov.			Alan Bates Mary Miller Terence De Marney Jeremy Young Donald Sumpter Brigit Forsyth Michael Mulcaster	Adapted from the novel.	Yes
	The Frighteners	Daniel Farson			Tom Adams Griffith Davies Ben Howard George Sewell Frank Jarvis June Murphy Peter Ducrow John Harvey	Repeat; first shown in the series Londoners on BBC2 8 July 1965.	missing
	A Piece of Resistance	Terence Dudley			Lally Bowers William Kendall Frederick Jaeger James Villiers Gerald Cross Michael Craze Gábor Baraker	Repeat of 26 December 1965 Theatre 625 on BBC2.	missing
	Where the Buffalo Roam	Dennis Potter			Hywel Bennett Megs Jenkins Glyn Aubrey Houston Richards Richard Davies	Repeated also 25 August 1976 on BBC2 and 21 July 1993 on BBC2.	Yes
	The Head Waiter	John Mortimer			Donald Pleasence Peter Madden Pauline Letts Alexandra Bastedo		missing
	Cathy Come Home	Jeremy Sandford			Carol White Ray Brooks Barry Jackson Geoffrey Palmer Barry Jackson John Baddeley Paddy Joyce Lennard Pearce Will Stampe Lila Kaye	Repeated also 11 August 1976 on BBC2, 23 December 2001 on BBC Choice, 5 June 2003 on BBC4, 11 June 2003 on BBC4, 26 November 2006 on BBC4.	Yes
	The Private Tutor	Christopher Williams			Ian McShane Marty Cruickshank Patricia Garwood Alan Tucker Christopher Wray		missing
	A Pyre for Private James	Simon Raven			Basil Henson Percy Herbert Dudley Sutton David Conville Grant Taylor John Bailey William Fox Basil Dignam Nick Tate John Garvin		missing
	A Tale of Two Wives	Marc Brandel			Dinsdale Landen Peter Jeffrey Amanda Barrie Suzanna Leigh		missing
	Little Master Mind	Nemone Lethbridge			George Sewell John Porter Davison Michael Robbins Robert Russell Jerome Willis Yootha Joyce John Woodnutt Roy Evans Charles Morgan John Garvin Lila Kaye		missing
	The Mayfly and the Frog	Jack Russell			John Gielgud Isa Miranda David Stoll Felicity Kendal Timothy Bateson	Repeated 10 July 1968 under Playbill.	Yes
	Person to Person	Joan Henry			Elizabeth Sellars Robin Bailey Michael Standing Michael Wennink		missing
	The Order	Fritz Hochwälder. Translated by Patrick Alexander.			John Neville Catherine Lacey George Coulouris Laurence Hardy George Murcell Clive Morton John Woodvine Jerold Wells James Cairncross Yvonne Antrobus Michael Pennington	A Wednesday Play production for The Largest Theatre in the World project of the EBU.	missing
	Everyone's Rich Except Us	Thomas Clarke			Alfred Lynch Jennifer Jayne Richard Vernon Vic Wise Wallas Eaton David Hutcheson Llewellyn Rees Howard Charlton Leonard Grahame Patsy Smart James Ottaway		missing
	The Lump	Jim Allen			Leslie Sands Joby Blanshard James Caffrey Frank Gatliff Ken Jones Paddy Joyce Neville Smith		Yes
	Who's Going to Take Me On?	Andrew Davies			Richard O'Sullivan Garfield Morgan George Moon Trisha Mortimer Ann Holloway Derek Seaton Clifford Cox		missing
	Death of a Teddy Bear	Simon Gray			Brenda Bruce Hywel Bennett Rachel Kempson Kenneth J. Warren John Bailey	Repeated 17 July 1968 under Playbill.	missing
	Days in the Trees	Marguerite Duras Translated by Sonia Orwell. adapted by Jeremy Brooks.			Peggy Ashcroft George Baker Frances Cuka Brian Badcoe Dallas Adams Roger Brierley Noel Collins Patricia Maynard	A Wednesday Play presentation. Original Royal Shakespeare Company stage production directed by: John Schlesinger.	missing
	In Two Minds	David Mercer			Anna Cropper George A. Cooper Neville Smith Malcolm Taylor Patrick Barr	Repeated also 16 August 1977 on BBC2, 22 November 1980 on BBC2, and 21 July 1988.	Yes
	Another Day, Another Dollar	Michael Standing			Victor Maddern Tony Selby Michael Standing Reg Lye Garfield Morgan Eric Flynn Harry Landis		partial
	Public Inquiry	Raymond Williams			Charles Williams Edward Evans Clive Graham Roderick Jones Richard Davies Michael Elwyn		missing
	A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant	Thomas Murphy			T. P. McKenna Elizabeth Begley Fionnula Flanagan Dermot Tuohy Denis McCarthy David Kelly		missing
	A Breach in the Wall	Ray Lawler			Robert Harris Barry Justice John Phillips Rosemary Leach Jennifer Daniel John Bryans Donald Morley	Repeated 31 July 1968 under Playbill.	missing
	The Voices in the Park	Leon Griffiths			Kenneth Haigh George Sewell Brian Oulton Paddy Joyce Will Stampe Wendy Richard Alec Ross Sonnie Willis Eric Mason		missing
	Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness	Thomas Whyte			Peter Copley Petra Davies Fiona Duncan Carl Jaffe John Moffatt Ronald Radd Jane Wenham		missing
	A Brilliant Future Behind Him	Thomas Clarke			David Buck John Phillips Isobel Black James Bree Patricia Garwood Robert Harris Guy Middleton Ann Tirard Stephen Jack Philip Latham Richard Carpenter Frank Gatliff Yvonne Antrobus Barry Humphries		Yes
	Message for Posterity	Dennis Potter			Patrick Magee Joseph O'Conor Geoffrey Chater Donald Hewlett Peter Welch John Golightly		missing
	A Way with the Ladies	Simon Gray. Based on the novel A Helping Hand by Celia Dale.			Bill Fraser Barbara Couper Amy Dalby		missing
	The Playground	Hunter Davies			John Ronane Ann Lynn Wendy Gifford Roy Purcell Jim McManus		missing
	Drums Along the Avon	Charles Wood			Leonard Rossiter Valerie Newman Maureen O'Reilly Salmaan Peer Derek Ware		Yes
	Sleeping Dog	Simon Gray			Marius Goring Rachel Kempson Johnny Sekka		missing
	Wanted: Single Gentleman…	James Broom Lynne			Peter Jeffrey John Stratton Alan Rowe Eileen Atkins		missing
	A Black Candle for Mrs Gogarty	Edward Boyd			Duncan MacRae John Grieve Phil McCall Peggy Marshall	From BBC Scotland	missing
	The Devil a Monk Would Be	Based on a story by Alphonse Daudet.			Max Adrian Tony Selby Elizabeth Begley Derek Francis Bernard Archard Roger Hammond John Sharp		missing
	Fall of the Goat	Fay Weldon			Joss Ackland Patricia Lawrence John Stratton Christine Hargreaves Sheila Burrell Joan Sanderson Arthur Hewlett		missing
	The Profile of a Gentleman	Jimmy O'Connor			Lee Montague George Sewell Ken Jones Paddy Joyce Richard Shaw Eric Mason Michael Goldie		partial
	Dial Rudolph Valentino One One	Ewart Alexander			Keith Barron Roy Dotrice Nerys Hughes Alan Lake John Rees Richard Davies Edward Burnham		missing
	Kippers and Curtains	Vickery Turner			Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Angela Baddeley John Glyn-Jones Paul Angelis Stephen Hubay		missing
	Death of a Private	Robert Muller Based on Georg Büchner's Woyzeck.			Dudley Sutton Liam Redmond John Nettleton Geraldine Sherman Harry Fowler Ralph Watson Godfrey James Jack Bligh		Yes
	An Officer of the Court	Nemone Lethbridge			Tommy Godfrey Yootha Joyce Bryan Pringle Ronald Radd Glynn Edwards Alec Ross Mona Bruce Desmond Cullum-Jones Frank Jarvis Erik Chitty Bill Burridge Joby Blanshard Steve Peters		Yes
	The Fat of the Land	Jack Russell			Joan Greenwood Willoughby Goddard Roy Holder Hazel Hughes Peter Jones Helen Fraser Russell Hunter Yvonne Antrobus		missing
	Toggle	Ian Roberts			Alan Badel Moray Watson Daphne Heard Ray Armstrong		missing
	House of Character	David Rudkin			Alfred Lynch Shelagh Fraser John Collin Rex Garner Elroy Josephs Brian Badcoe Sylvia Coleridge		Yes
	Jamie, on a Flying Visit	Michael Frayn			Anton Rodgers Caroline Mortimer Dinsdale Landen Felicity Gibson Norman Mitchell Reg Whitehead Jane Enshawe John Scott Martin	Repeated 7 August 1968 under Playbill.	missing
	Monsieur Barnett	Jean Anouilh			Michael Redgrave Miriam Karlin Harold Lang		missing
	The Drummer and the Bloke	Rhys Adrian			Peter Sallis Peter Vaughan Donal Donnelly Michael Robbins John Dearth		missing
	Rebel in the Grave	Marc Brandel			Grégoire Aslan Michael York		missing
	Coincidence	Piers Paul Read			Clive Revill Caroline Blakiston Donald Douglas Emrys James John Franklyn-Robbins John Savident Llewellyn Rees Bella Emberg Roger Avon Michael Sheard Desmond Cullum-Jones Michael Mulcaster		missing
	Light Blue	Gerald Vaughan-Hughes			Calvin Lockhart Maureen O'Brien Robert Gillespie		missing
	Let's Murder Vivaldi	David Mercer			Denholm Elliott Gwen Watford Glenda Jackson David Sumner	Repeated also 7 July 1988.	Yes
	The Golden Vision	Neville Smith and Gordon Honeycombe			Ken Jones Bill Dean Neville Smith Joey Kaye		Yes
	The Man Behind You	Jeremy Scott			Michael Bryant Tony Steedman Alan Tucker Stephen Whittaker		missing
	Infidelity Took Place	John Mortimer			Judy Cornwell Paul Daneman John Nettleton Patrick Newell		missing
	Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It	Tony Parker			Mary Miller Ray Smith Barry Jackson James Appleby Ray Barron Pauline Collins Griffith Davies Gilly Fraser Sheila Grant Ben Howard Frank Jarvis Eric Mason Royston Tickner		Yes
	Spoiled	Simon Gray			Michael Craig Elizabeth Shepherd Simon Ward Mark Rose		missing
	The Gorge	Peter Nichols			Billy Hamon Constance Chapman Reg Lye Neil Wilson John Woodnutt David Webb	Repeated also 8 September 1976 on BBC2, 28 July 1993 on BBC2.	Yes
	A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka	William Trevor			Jean Kent Geoffrey Bayldon Arthur Lowe Peter Bathurst Daphne Heard John Savident Reginald Barratt Christopher Burgess Barry Andrews		missing
	Charlie	Alun Owen			Barrie Ingham Julian Glover Mary Chester		missing
	Anyone for Tennis?	J. B. Priestley			Clifford Evans Rachel Kempson Joseph O'Conor Ernest Clark Michael Pennington Angharad Rees		missing
	Mooney and his Caravans	Peter Terson			John Alderton Diana Bishop Dave Prowse Jerry Holmes		missing
	The Lower Largo Sequence	Edward Boyd			Patrick Allen Isobel Black	From BBC Scotland	missing
	Hello, Good Evening, and Welcome	Hugh Whitemore			Robert Hardy Michael Robbins James Marcus Roshan Seth George Roubicek Ralph Bates Dallas Cavell		missing
	A Bit of Crucifixion, Father	Julia Jones			Walter Fitzgerald Valerie White Margery Mason Alan Lake P.G. Stephens		missing
	Nothing will be the Same Again	James Hanley			Patrick Magee Bernard Lee Gwen Cherrell Tessa Wyatt		missing
	A Beast with Two Backs	Dennis Potter			Patrick Barr Denis Carey Christian Rodska Basil Henson Madeleine Newbury Geraldine Newman Llewellyn Rees		Yes
	On the Eve of Publication	David Mercer			Leo McKern Thorley Walters Michele Dotrice Kay Dotrice	Repeated also 6 December 1980 on BBC2, on 30 June 1988, and on 19&20-10-2002 on BBC4.	Yes
	The Fabulous Frump	James Gibbins			Sheila Steafel Peter Butterworth Donald Churchill Patsy Rowlands Richard Stilgoe		missing
	Smoke Screen	Fay Weldon			Lally Bowers Stephanie Bidmead Gemma Jones Edwin Richfield Jonathan Newth Ian Lavender Geoffrey Cheshire		missing
	Dr. Aitkinson's Daughter	Hugo Charteris			Raymond Huntley Peter Barkworth Fanny Rowe Jennifer Hilary Sylvia Coleridge David Langton Helen Lindsay Neil Wilson Reginald Barratt		missing
	The Apprentices	Peter Terson			James Gibson Barrie Rutter Allan Swift Paula Wilcox Russell Dixon Gareth Thomas Loftus Burton Peter Turner	The National Youth Theatre production of The Apprentices	missing
	Birthday	Michael Frayn			Rosemary Leach Angela Pleasence Clive Swift Georgina Ward Roshan Seth Tariq Yunus		missing
	The Big Flame	Jim Allen			Norman Rossington Godfrey Quigley Ken Jones Griffith Davies Neville Smith Michael Lynch Paddy Joyce		Yes
	A Serpent in Putney	Fred Watson			Tony Britt