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.

The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.

George Stoupe, successful housemaster at the public school, has an eye to the main chance against his retirement. He chooses the boys for his house if their parents are rich and likely to help him in his profitable art-dealing sideline. Trouble threatens when the head boy of the house tries to expose some of the mal-practices amomg the boys.

A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.

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.

Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

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

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.

Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.

An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

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.

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.

A young English exchange student staying with a German family falls for the daughters

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.