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The Wednesday Play
Season 1 • Episode 26 • The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
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The Wednesday Play Season 1, Episode 26: The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
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The July Plot
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The Navigators
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Fable
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Dan, Dan the Charity Man
Dan Sankey, the charity knocker, has become a national celebrity but who is the man behind the image?
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Ashes to Ashes
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A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
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The Confidence Course
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Campaign for One
Astronaut Osborne is stuck in a malfunctioning capsule. As he goes round and round the Earth, he starts telling jokes and secrets. When the time comes to bring him down to Earth, he can't face it as he feels like a sexual failure.
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Horror of Darkness
Peter and Cathy are initially delighted to see their charismatic, subtly domineering friend Robin. But he outstays his welcome, and that's to say the least of it.
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A Little Temptation
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
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Moving On
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Cat's Cradle
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The Interior Decorator
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The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Peddler
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