The Wednesday Play

Based on the play "La foire d'empoigne" by Jean Anouilh.

A soldier named Postnikov rescues a drowning man.

Three people find themselves sharing a room with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.

A young woman's dreams of death but The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

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

Coronation Day, 1761: A merchant entertains a guest with an extraordinary secret.

A mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.

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.

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.