Dennis Price’s US-style assertiveness training weekend in a conference centre humiliates such needy participants as Yootha Joyce and Joan Sanderson with various...
Written by Eric Coltart. A young woman’s audacious choice of headgear leads to social unpleasantness on a night out in Liverpool.
An effective genre thriller by Marc Brandel with Scott Forbes playing an intimidating game of cat and mouse with Toby Robins in...
Misfortunes of a comical door-to-door pedler (Barry Foster) told in the humorous cut-and-paste style of films like A Hard Day’s Night, with...
Polemical fantasy by John Hopkins in which Britain is depicted under the rule of apartheid – but with the whites as the...
The first appearance of the wry and touching Julia Jones in the strand was this highly popular working class romance centring around...
Simon Raven’s dramatisation of the political machinations among university grandees debating whether a prestigious new college building should be a traditional chapel...
1965: the strand sheds its adaptation-heavy beginnings and really gets into its stride. James O’Connor’s story of a gangster’s meteoric rise through...
Another Canadian production, of Ivan Turgenev’s tale of a young boy’s naive infatuation with an older girl.
Roger Manvell’s dramatisation of the infamous assasination attempt on Hitler, carried out by Colonel von Stauffenberg.
Adapted by Rosemary Hill from the story by Henry de Montherlant. Patrick Wymark is the titular malevolent Renaissance man, a patron of...
Michael Goodliffe is the titular ageing, embittered Scot who descends upon London during George III’s coronation – and reveals himself to be...
Rupert ‘Maigret’ Davies is a scheming Welsh councillor going after Daphne Slater, the infirm wife of his nephew (Nigel Stock). Alun Richards’...
Wednesday Play instigator Sydney Newman bought some productions from the Canadian Broadcasting Company to the strand, a tradition which lived on into...
Harold Pinter, Jane Arden and Catherine Woodville find themselves pay for their various sins by finding themselves trapped together in hell –...
Dramatisation of Nikolai Leskov’s short story The Sentry, about a private in the nineteenth century Russian army who rescues a drowning man.
The stand-alone TV play, though long superceded by the series and serial (and often, subsequently and wrongly, seen as old-fashioned for that...
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