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The Wednesday Play Season 3 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Wednesday, September 21, 1966

Ended: Wednesday, May 10, 1967

When does The Wednesday Play Season 3 come out?

The Wednesday Play Season 3 premiered Wednesday, September 21, 1966 on BBC One and ended Wednesday, May 10, 1967. The season has 31 episodes.

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The Wednesday Play Season 3 release schedule

The Wednesday Play Season 3 episode release dates
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1. Photo Finish

Eighty years old, Sam, a famous writer, looks back on his life and tempestuous marriage, and meets himself at the ages of sixty, forty and twenty.

Wednesday · 60 years ago

2. A Hero of our Time

A young Russian embarks on an affair as a relief from boredom but so brings about his doom.

Wednesday · 60 years ago

3. The Frighteners

Wednesday · 60 years ago

4. A Piece of Resistance

A retired colonel is enduring the invasion of the Channel Islands when his household is disrupted by the arrival of a German officer who is surprisingly civilised and susceptible to the daughter's charms.

Wednesday · 60 years ago

5. Where the Buffalo Roam

A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.

Wednesday · 60 years ago

6. The Head Waiter

It is end of the season and the head waiter at the seaside hotel has some marvellous tales to tell a young boy.

Wednesday · 61 years ago

7. Cathy Come Home

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

Wednesday · 60 years ago

8. The Private Tutor

A mother, anxious to secure her daughter's admission to Oxford, invites a young male graduate to lodge with them.

Wednesday · 60 years ago

9. A Pyre for Private James

A major faces a court martial, accused of the wilful murder of Private James.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

10. A Tale of Two Wives

A tale of two wives: one a blonde living in a chic Parisian apartment and the other a brunette with a smart mews flat in London. Both are young, attractive, and separated from their husbands, and their paths are about to cross in an unexpected way.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

11. Little Master Mind

The Barking brothers dote on their parents and do a lot of good work for charity but the police are determined to bring them to account.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

12. The Mayfly and the Frog

Following an accident, the rider of a rusting old scooter pursues the driver of a Rolls Royce to a Mayfair mansion and forces entry in an attempt to confront the owner.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

13. Person To Person

A twenty-two-year-old architecture student appears at the door of a divorced thirty-something journalist and asks to use her telephone. They talk, and slowly begin to understand one another: their lives, values, and very different sets of relationships.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

14. The Order

An inspector in Austria investigates the death, over twenty years earlier, of a teenage girl who fell into a canal and drowned trying to evade capture by a policeman searching for members of the resistance.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

15. Everybody's Rich Except Us

Eddie Marble admires the lifestyles of the rich and wants a piece for himself.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

16. The Lump

Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

17. Who's Going to Take Me On?

The adventures of a knicker factory worker aspiring to be a sales representative.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

18. Death of a Teddy Bear

Inspired by a real-life case, a woman encourages her lover to murder her older husband.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

19. Days in the Trees

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

20. In Two Minds

In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

21. Another Day, Another Dollar

A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

22. Public Inquiry

A tired signalman waits to be relieved. However, there are four trains to be guided through and some of the equipment doesn't seem to be working properly.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

23. A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant

John Joe Moran is pulled between the compulsion to leave his small town in Ireland and the desire to stay.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

24. A Breach in the Wall

A parish church is undergoing restoration, when a coffin bearing the seal of Thomas à Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, is discovered. Will the discovery help unite the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches?

Wednesday · 59 years ago

25. The Voices in the Park

The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

26. Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness

A young man, newly dismissed from his job, returns home to a party where the other partygoers seem determined that he and a female flatmate should go on holiday together.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

27. A Brilliant Future Behind Him

A minor driving offence is being tried in court, but the case involves a rich young heiress, a dope peddler, and a Shadow Cabinet member.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

28. Message for Posterity

An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

29. A Way with the Ladies

Josh and Maisie come to Italy after the passing of the old lady who had been living in their sapre room but are soon drawn to another old lady, and try to convince her daughter that she would be better off in their tender care.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

30. The Playground

Walter has three children, by his estranged wife and his current partner, so he is far too busy to get a job, preferring to spend his time in the playground.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

31. Drums Along the Avon Finale

A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.

Wednesday · 59 years ago

The Wednesday Play Season 3 guest stars

  • Ray Brooks

    Ray Brooks

    Reg

  • Geoffrey Palmer

    Geoffrey Palmer

    Property Agent

  • Barry Jackson

    Barry Jackson

    Rent Collector

  • Tim Brooke-Taylor

    Tim Brooke-Taylor

    (uncredited)

  • John Gielgud

    John Gielgud

    Gabriel Quantara

  • Felicity Kendal

    Felicity Kendal

    The Girl

  • Timothy Bateson

    Timothy Bateson

    Barnet

  • Basil Henson

    Basil Henson

    Major Andrew Carlyle

  • Percy Herbert

    Percy Herbert

    Colour Sergeant David Mackison

  • Dudley Sutton

    Dudley Sutton

    Corporal Tom Oates

  • John Bailey

    John Bailey

    Humphrey Wiles, Counsel for Defence

  • Nick Tate

    Nick Tate

    Private Trevor James

  • Brenda Bruce

    Brenda Bruce

    Mollie

  • Geoffrey Chater

    Geoffrey Chater

    Richard Browning

  • Ballard Berkeley

    Ballard Berkeley

    First Committee Member

  • T. P. McKenna

    T. P. McKenna

    John Joe Moran

The Wednesday Play Season 3 FAQ

When does The Wednesday Play Season 3 come out?

The Wednesday Play Season 3 premiered Wednesday, September 21, 1966 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in The Wednesday Play Season 3?

The Wednesday Play Season 3 has 31 episodes.

Are new episodes of The Wednesday Play Season 3 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the The Wednesday Play Season 3 finale?

The The Wednesday Play Season 3 finale (Episode 31) aired Wednesday, May 10, 1967.

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