The War Game
"The Wednesday Play" succeeded in meeting this aim, and the BBC quickly developed the practice of stockpiling six or seven "Wednesday Plays" in case there were problems with individual works. One production, "The War Game" (1965), was withdrawn from broadcast by a nervous BBC under pressure from the government, while John Hopkins' "Fable" (20 January 1965), an inversion of South Africa's Apartheid system, was delayed for several weeks over fears that it would incite racial tensions.