The Wednesday Thriller (1965)
Synopsis
A collection of one-off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.
First Air Date: 1965-08-04
Last Air Date: 1965-09-22
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 8
Created By: Bernard Hepton
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Denholm Elliott as John Fairchild
- Nancie Jackson as Catherine Fairchild
- Anabel Littledale as Verity Fairchild
- Terence Alexander as Mr Vincent
- Rachel Gurney as Mrs Vincent
- Margaret Whiting as Miss Price
- Laurence Hardy as Prosecutor
- Michael Robbins as Clerk of the Court
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Walter Hodge
- Patrick Mower as Roy
Seasons
Series 1 (1965)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The House
Worried about his daughter's view of him, a barrister gifts her a Victoriana dollhouse, with two specially made dolls inside. As the young girl creates an intricate fantasy, the house's inhabitants' outlook on the father become sinister.
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Ep. 2: The Lift
Egyptologist Walter Hodge lives alone in a block of flats. His son Roy visits to let him he now owns the property and will demolish it. He leaves a cursed artifact and warns him against changing his will. When Walter enters the lift, he is terrified.
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Ep. 3: The Babysitter
Mr and Mrs Seam are looking after, ll an old man after he accidentally killed the Major. Inheriting the Major's money and the old man, they have grown tired of him. He is terrified of cats so they hire a babysitter, if she brings a cat.
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Ep. 4: The Travelling Companion
Lucas sits in the corner of a carriage on a branch line train pottering through the countryside. To the girl on her way for a day by the sea who joins him in the compartment, he seems a rather pathetic figure – lame, shy, ill at ease and anxious not to offend. Who could be more harmless?
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Ep. 5: The Imposter
Grace acts as maid to look after her bedridden mother Miss Chafecote. 'Chafi' likes to play piratical jokes so Grace 'buys' friends to visit. When 'Lady Alice' visits, she sees rich picking but doesn't realise how dangerous 'Chafi' can be.
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Ep. 6: The Regulator
An office can be as terrifying as a Gothic mansion when its doors are locked and the building is empty.
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Ep. 7: The Initiate
Years of domination by his possessive mother has left Albert scarcely able to face the world beyond his cosy lower middle-class home. But unbearable as the outside is, he is far from being at peace. He is, in fact, obsessed by a single, recurrent nightmare which harks back to a childhood misdemeanour.
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Ep. 8: The Cellar
A weak-willed man named George marries for money. When his wife Hilda has a nervous breakdown, George takes up with a scheming creature called Peggy, who makes him promise to get rid of Hilda. A second honeymoon in a country cottage after Hilda’s recovery seems to provide an opportunity, but a stranger interferes with George’s plans.
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