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The Wednesday Thriller

The Wednesday Thriller (1965)

August. 04,1965

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The Wednesday Thriller

A collection of one-off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.

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The Wednesday Thriller

1965

A collection of one-off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1965

8 Episode

Episode 1 - The House

August. 04,1965

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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Episode 2 - The Lift

August. 11,1965

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.

Episode 3 - The Babysitter

August. 18,1965

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.

Episode 4 - The Travelling Companion

August. 25,1965

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?

Episode 5 - The Imposter

September. 01,1965

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.

Episode 6 - The Regulator

September. 08,1965

An office can be as terrifying as a Gothic mansion when its doors are locked and the building is empty.

Episode 7 - The Initiate

September. 15,1965

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.

Episode 8 - The Cellar

September. 22,1965

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.

A collection of one-off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.