"Fable" is a British television play, shown on 27 January 1965 as an episode of The Wednesday Play series on BBC 1. Written by John Hopkins, the play is...
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The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually...
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result of a racist altercation with Len Fairclough. Fable (1965) was an episode of The Wednesday Play written by John Hopkins which imagined Britain as...
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"Up the Junction" is an episode of the BBC anthology drama series The Wednesday Play directed by Ken Loach and produced by James MacTaggart. It was first...
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Look up fable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fable is a story intended to illustrate a moral. Fable(s), The Fable(s), or A Fable may also refer...
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Christopher Morahan (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
as Tim Pigott-Smith, one of the leads in The Jewel in the Crown. The Road (First Night, 1963) Fable (The Wednesday Play, 1965) Talking to a Stranger...
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Cathy Come Home (category The Wednesday Play)
1966 on BBC1. The play was shown in the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology strand, which often tackled social issues. The play tells the story of a young...
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television play by playwright Dennis Potter which was first broadcast on BBC1 on 16 April 1969, in The Wednesday Play slot. An alternative depiction of the last...
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In Two Minds (category The Wednesday Play)
"In Two Minds" is a television play by David Mercer commissioned for The Wednesday Play (BBC 1) anthology drama series. First transmitted on 1 March 1967...
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cut from the running time, as part of The Wednesday Play strand. As often happened in this era, the colour master tapes of The Year of the Sex Olympics...
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Warm and Cozy (category Television shows written by the Hong sisters)
Written by the Hong sisters as a twist on the fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper, it aired on MBC from May 13 to July 2, 2015 on Wednesdays and Thursdays...
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July 2024. "BBC – The War Game". BBC. "The War Game Part 2". Peter Watkins. 24 September 1965. Retrieved 6 November 2018. "wed play season nine". Startrader...
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television". Two Wednesday Plays from this period by Hopkins were Fable from January 1965 and Horror of Darkness broadcast the following March. The former imagines...
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"The End of Arthur's Marriage" is a television satirical musical drama that was an episode in The Wednesday Play series first broadcast on 17 November...
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The following is a list of animated television series, including those produced for streaming, that originate from the United States. For animated shows...
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Rudolph Walker (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
earliest television role was as a policeman in the British The Wednesday Play, in the episode titled "Fable" (aired 27 January 1965).[citation needed] He...
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Theatre ITV Play of the Week ITV Playhouse BBC2 Playhouse The Wednesday Play Play of the Month Thirty-Minute Theatre Play for Today Play for Tomorrow...
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at a time when unemployment was rising in Britain. The play was shown in the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology strand, which was noted for tackling social...
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A Beast With Two Backs (category The Wednesday Play)
Backs" is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 on 20 November 1968 as part of The Wednesday Play strand. The play is a fictional account...
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within Davy Jones's locker was to be lost at sea. The 1898 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable connects Davy to the West-Indian duppy (duffy) and Jones to biblical...
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T. S. Eliot (redirect from Sweeney Among the Nightingales)
(1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He wrote seven plays, notably Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail...
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Gleiberman, Owen (August 19, 2020). "'The One and Only Ivan' Review: Sam Rockwell and Angelina Jolie Voice a Touching Animal Fable From Disney Plus". Variety. Retrieved...
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television and stage play by Simon Gray, first broadcast by the BBC in 1968 as part of The Wednesday Play series and later adapted for the stage. It is set...
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from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017. Metcalf, Mitch (December 14, 2017). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable...
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No Trams to Lime Street (category 1959 television plays)
Startrader synopsis of the Wednesday Play series Retrieved 1 September 2009 "Missing episode in programme The Wednesday Play", lostshows.com Vahimagi...
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although the show is expressly pulled from the page), The Witcher is perhaps best viewed and accepted as a fresh translation of an old fable." Critic...
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Nigel Barton (category 1965 television plays)
on 8 and 15 December 1965 as part of The Wednesday Play strand. The first play, Stand Up, Nigel Barton, follows the eponymous character's journey from his...
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There Life After High School? The following year, he appeared as baseball legend Joe DiMaggio in Marilyn: An American Fable, which only ran 17 performances...
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Catherine Zeta-Jones (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
her film debut in the director Philippe de Broca's film 1001 Nights. An adaptation of the Persian fable One Thousand and One Nights, the French-Italian production...
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