The Wednesday Play - Season 4 (1966)

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.

Billy Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.

Two boys hatch a plan to get some money to go to the seaside.

A young Irish woman named Eileen comes to Britain with romantic ideas of fame and fortune and meets Toppet, a struggling artist with a spare room.

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

Author James Hanley, Irish by birth and Welsh by adoption, crafted a TV play about a lonely spinster having her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.

A rescreening of the "Londoners" episode Boy in the Smoke, repeated on BBC1 under the "Wednesday Play" label.

We spend a day with Barlowe, a council car park attendant.

After an assault a man tries to find justice in court only to find that his incompetent prosecution team and the attractive female defense lawyer who wows the court, conspire against him.

A rescreening of the "Londoners" episode Pity about the Abbey, repeated on BBC1 under the "Wednesday Play" label.

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 passionate, ambiguous relationship begins between two people who meet at a masked ball.

When a bossy do-gooder becomes homeless, she is passed from home to home.

A cynical housemaster at a boarding school tries to feather his nest in advance of his forthcoming retirement.

A young priest, newly arrived in Dublin, is conducting a retreat for the first time.

Eighty years after a nuclear war ravaged the British Isles, a team of scientists from New Zealand come to conduct a survey.

Morris, a homunculus, is under suspicion of having stolen the swimming pool fund from a girls' school.

Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

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

A police raid on Edna Bossom's discreet hotel would be most ill-advised, in the opinion of Superintendent Willow; but one of his younger officers is determined to go ahead with one.

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.