Watch Series: The Wednesday Play Released in (1964) - Season 1 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Drama, and content rating 1h 15min with duration 75 min broadcasted as these networks BBC One, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Sydney Newman, Gilchrist Calder, Ken Loach, James Ferman. 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. - Season 1