S1, Ep1Sep. 30, 1964 Catch as Catch Can
S1, Ep2Oct. 28, 1964 A Crack in the Ice
S1, Ep3Nov. 4, 1964 In Camera
S1, Ep4Nov. 18, 1964 The Big Breaker
S1, Ep5Nov. 25, 1964 Mr. Douglas
S1, Ep6Dec. 2, 1964 Malatesta
S1, Ep7Dec. 9, 1964 The July Plot
Dramatisation of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944 by a conspiracy of high-ranking German Army officers.
S1, Ep8Dec. 16, 1964 First Love
S1, Ep9Jan. 6, 1965 A Tap on the Shoulder
S1, Ep10Jan. 13, 1965 Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word...
S1, Ep11Jan. 20, 1965 The Navigators
S1, Ep12Jan. 27, 1965 Fable
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
S1, Ep13Feb. 3, 1965 Dan, Dan, the Charity Man
S1, Ep14Feb. 10, 1965 Ashes to Ashes
S1, Ep15Feb. 17, 1965 Wear a Very Big Hat
S1, Ep16Feb. 24, 1965 The Confidence Course
Three swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be the critic-essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.
S1, Ep17Mar. 3, 1965 Campaign for One
Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.
S1, Ep18Mar. 10, 1965 Horror of Darkness
S1, Ep19Mar. 17, 1965 A Little Temptation
S1, Ep20Mar. 24, 1965 Moving On
S1, Ep21Mar. 31, 1965 The Cat's Cradle
S1, Ep22Apr. 7, 1965 3 Clear Sundays
S1, Ep23Apr. 14, 1965 The Interior Decorator
S1, Ep24Apr. 21, 1965 Auto-Stop
S1, Ep25Apr. 28, 1965 The Good Shoemaker and the Poor Fish Peddler
S1, Ep26May 5, 1965 Cemented with Love
S1, Ep27May 12, 1965 A Knight in Tarnished Armour
S1, Ep28May 26, 1965 For the West
S1, Ep29Jun. 2, 1965 And Did Those Feet?
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
S1, Ep30Jun. 9, 1965 The Man Without Papers
S1, Ep31Jun. 16, 1965 The Pistol
S1, Ep32Jun. 30, 1965 The Seven O'Clock Crunch
S1, Ep33Oct. 13, 1965 Alice
Written for THE WEDNESDAY PLAY (1964-70), which the BBC retitled PLAY FOR TODAY in 1970, ALICE has the earliest airdate (10/13/65) of the Potter productions to survive on tape. After THE CONFIDENCE COURSE (1965), it's the second of the nine Potter plays seen on THE WEDNESDAY PLAY. In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ...
S1, Ep34Oct. 20, 1965 The Girl Who Loved Robots
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.
S1, Ep35Oct. 27, 1965 A Designing Woman
S1, Ep36Nov. 3, 1965 Up the Junction
From the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series, this play was the first to seriously tackle the issue of abortion. It paints a realistic portrait of working class Londoners at work and play, but has a potent political agenda.
S1, Ep37Nov. 10, 1965 The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
S1, Ep38Nov. 17, 1965 The End of Arthur's Marriage
S1, Ep39Nov. 24, 1965 Tomorrow, Just You Wait
S1, Ep40Dec. 1, 1965 The Bond
S1, Ep41Dec. 8, 1965 Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.
S1, Ep42Dec. 15, 1965 Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton
Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
S1, Ep43Dec. 22, 1965 The Coming Out Party
S1, Ep44Jan. 5, 1966 The Bone Yard
S1, Ep45Jan. 12, 1966 A Man on Her Back
S1, Ep46Jan. 19, 1966 Rodney, Our Intrepid Hero
S1, Ep47Jan. 26, 1966 Calf Love
S1, Ep48Feb. 2, 1966 Silent Song
S1, Ep49Feb. 9, 1966 Who's a Good Boy Then?
S1, Ep50Feb. 16, 1966 A Game, Like, Only a Game
S1, Ep51Feb. 23, 1966 Why Aren't You Famous?
S1, Ep52Mar. 2, 1966 Macready's Gala
S1, Ep53Mar. 9, 1966 A Walk in the Sea
S1, Ep54Mar. 23, 1966 Barlowe of the Car Park
S1, Ep55Mar. 30, 1966 The Portsmouth Defence
S1, Ep56Apr. 13, 1966 The Big Man Coughed and Died
S1, Ep57Apr. 20, 1966 The Snow Ball
S1, Ep58Apr. 27, 1966 A Cheery Soul
S1, Ep59May 4, 1966 The Connoisseur
S1, Ep60May 11, 1966 The Retreat
S1, Ep61May 18, 1966 Ape and Essence
Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.
S1, Ep62May 25, 1966 Toddler on the Run
S1, Ep63Jun. 1, 1966 The Executioner
Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
S1, Ep64Jun. 8, 1966 Way Off Beat
S1, Ep65Jun. 15, 1966 A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
S1, Ep66Jun. 22, 1966 Cock, Hen and Courting Pit
S1, Ep67Sep. 28, 1966 A Hero of Our Time
S1, Ep68Oct. 19, 1966 A Piece of Resistance
S1, Ep69Nov. 2, 1966 Where the Buffalo Roam
BBC TV play from the 'Wednesday Play' series. Hywel Bennett plays a mentally disturbed Welsh teenager obsessed with Wild West films. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.
S1, Ep70Nov. 9, 1966 The Head Waiter
S1, Ep71Nov. 16, 1966 Cathy Come Home
From the BBC's influential 'Wednesday Play' series. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home, husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the British welfare system. A grim picture is painted of mid-sixties London, and though realistic the viewer cannot but realise that a political point is being made. One of the consequences of this film was the enormous public support for the housing charity 'Shelter', whose public launch came shortly after the programme was first shown.
S1, Ep72Nov. 23, 1966 The Private Tutor
S1, Ep73Nov. 30, 1966 A Pyre for Private James
S1, Ep74Dec. 7, 1966 A Tale of Two Wives
S1, Ep75Dec. 14, 1966 Little Master Mind
S1, Ep76Dec. 21, 1966 The Mayfly and the Frog
S1, Ep77Jan. 4, 1967 Person to Person
S1, Ep78Jan. 18, 1967 The Order
S1, Ep79Jan. 25, 1967 Everybody's Rich Except Us
S1, Ep80Feb. 1, 1967 The Lump
S1, Ep81Feb. 8, 1967 Who's Going to Take Me On?
S1, Ep82Feb. 15, 1967 Death of a Teddy Bear
S1, Ep83Feb. 22, 1967 Days in the Trees
S1, Ep84Mar. 1, 1967 In Two Minds
S1, Ep85Mar. 8, 1967 Another Day, Another Dollar
S1, Ep86Mar. 15, 1967 Public Inquiry
S1, Ep87Mar. 22, 1967 A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant
S1, Ep88Mar. 29, 1967 A Breach in the Wall
S1, Ep89Apr. 5, 1967 The Voices in the Park
S1, Ep90Apr. 12, 1967 Dismissal Leading to Lustfulness
S1, Ep91Apr. 19, 1967 A Brilliant Future Behind Him
S1, Ep92May 3, 1967 Message for Posterity
BBC TV play, from the 'Wednesday Play' series. An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the elderly establishment figure 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.
S1, Ep93May 10, 1967 A Way with the Ladies
S1, Ep94May 17, 1967 The Playground
S1, Ep95May 24, 1967 Drums Along the Avon
S1, Ep96Oct. 11, 1967 Sleeping Dogs
A black barman upsets a colonial Governor who has just retired and returned to England. He locks the barman in the cellar and treats him like an animal.
S1, Ep97Oct. 18, 1967 Wanted: Single Gentleman
S1, Ep98Oct. 25, 1967 A Black Candle for Mrs Gogarty
S1, Ep99Nov. 1, 1967 Pitchi Poi
S1, Ep100Nov. 8, 1967 The Devil a Monk Would Be
S1, Ep101Nov. 15, 1967 Fall of the Goat
S1, Ep102Nov. 22, 1967 The Profile of a Gentleman
S1, Ep103Nov. 29, 1967 Dial Rudolph Valentino One One
S1, Ep104Dec. 6, 1967 Kippers and Curtains
S1, Ep105Dec. 13, 1967 Death of a Private
S1, Ep106Dec. 20, 1967 An Officer of the Court
S1, Ep107Dec. 27, 1967 The Fat of the Land
S1, Ep108Jan. 3, 1968 Toggle
S1, Ep109Jan. 10, 1968 House of Character
S1, Ep110Jan. 17, 1968 Jamie, on a Flying Visit
S1, Ep111Jan. 24, 1968 Monsieur Barnett
S1, Ep112Jan. 31, 1968 The Drummer and the Bloke
S1, Ep113Feb. 7, 1968 Rebel in the Grave
S1, Ep114Feb. 21, 1968 Coincidence
S1, Ep115Apr. 3, 1968 Light Blue
An African-American trumpet player spends a few hours in an English provincial town, with a girl who happens to be white. As a result, each learns to care for the other, not as a "cipher of a divided society" but as a vulnerable human being.
S1, Ep116Apr. 10, 1968 Let's Murder Vivaldi
S1, Ep117Apr. 17, 1968 The Golden Vision
S1, Ep118May 1, 1968 The Man Behind You
S1, Ep119May 8, 1968 Infidelity Took Place
S1, Ep120Aug. 21, 1968 Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
S1, Ep121Aug. 28, 1968 Spoiled
S1, Ep122Sep. 4, 1968 The Gorge
From of the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. A comedy in which a teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.
S1, Ep123Sep. 11, 1968 A Night with Mrs. Da Tanka
S1, Ep124Sep. 18, 1968 Charlie
S1, Ep125Sep. 25, 1968 Anyone for Tennis?
S1, Ep126Oct. 2, 1968 Mooney and His Caravans
S1, Ep127Oct. 9, 1968 The Lower Largo Sequence
S1, Ep128Oct. 16, 1968 Hello, Good Evening and Welcome
S1, Ep129Oct. 30, 1968 A Bit of Crucifixion Father
S1, Ep130Nov. 6, 1968 Nothing Will Be the Same
S1, Ep131Nov. 20, 1968 A Beast with Two Backs
Part of the BBC's celebrated 'Wednesday Play' series of the 1960s, this early work by Dennis Potter is set in an isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
S1, Ep132Nov. 27, 1968 On the Eve of Publication
S1, Ep133Jan. 8, 1969 The Fabulous Frump
S1, Ep134Jan. 15, 1969 Smoke Screen
S1, Ep135Jan. 22, 1969 Doctor Atkinson's Daughter
S1, Ep136Jan. 29, 1969 The Apprentices
S1, Ep137Feb. 12, 1969 Birthday
S1, Ep138Feb. 19, 1969 The Big Flame
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
S1, Ep139Feb. 26, 1969 A Serpent in Putney
S1, Ep140Mar. 5, 1969 Bam! Pow! Zapp!
S1, Ep141Apr. 2, 1969 Sling Your Hook
S1, Ep142Apr. 9, 1969 A Child and a Half
S1, Ep143Apr. 16, 1969 Son of Man
Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.
S1, Ep144Apr. 23, 1969 The Exiles
S1, Ep145Apr. 30, 1969 Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage
S1, Ep146Oct. 1, 1969 The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel
S1, Ep147Oct. 8, 1969 Patterson O.K.
S1, Ep148Oct. 15, 1969 The Mark II Wife
S1, Ep149Oct. 22, 1969 Close the Coalhouse Door
History of the mining industry in the N.E. of England told by means of family drama, comedy sketches, and song !
S1, Ep150Oct. 29, 1969 The Sad Decline of Arthur Maybury
S1, Ep151Nov. 5, 1969 All Out for Kangaroo Valley
S1, Ep152Nov. 12, 1969 Happy
S1, Ep153Nov. 19, 1969 There Is Also Tomorrow
S1, Ep154Nov. 26, 1969 Double Bill: The Compartment/Playmates
S1, Ep155Dec. 3, 1969 Blood of the Lamb
S1, Ep156Dec. 10, 1969 The Vortex
S1, Ep157Dec. 17, 1969 It Wasn't Me
S1, Ep158Jan. 7, 1970 The Season of the Witch
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
S1, Ep159Jan. 21, 1970 The Hunting of Lionel Crane
S1, Ep160Jan. 28, 1970 Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
S1, Ep161Feb. 4, 1970 Mad Jack
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War.
S1, Ep162Feb. 11, 1970 Nathan and Tabileth
S1, Ep163Feb. 18, 1970 The Italian Table
S1, Ep164Feb. 25, 1970 The Boy Who Wanted Peace
S1, Ep165Mar. 4, 1970 The Cellar and the Almond Tree
S1, Ep166Mar. 18, 1970 No Trams to Lime Street
S1, Ep167Apr. 15, 1970 Wine of India
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centers around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.
S1, Ep168Apr. 22, 1970 Sovereign's Company
S1, Ep169May 13, 1970 Emma's Time
S1, Ep170May 20, 1970 Chariot of Fire
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
