Pay your respect to Anzac Day with a look at the 1962 Australian television play, The Coastwatchers.
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian TV plays looks at the sole TV drama appearance of billionaire Richard Pratt, 1958’s Last Call.
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at The First Joanna, Murder in the Cathedral and A Piece of Ribbon screened between 1961-63.
A TV play, banned in Australia sixty years ago because of sensitivities over Anzac Day, is to receive its first public performance in Sydney this week.
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at four written locally by George F. Kerr: Enemy of the People (1958), Blue Murder (1959), Heart Attack (1960) and Jenny
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at two efforts directed by Pat Barton at the ABC, Cross of Gold (1965) and Goodbye Gloria Hello (1967).
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian TV plays looks at an adaptation of the semi-classic local musical, Lola Montez (1962).
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at a high concept comedy from the writer of They’re a Weird Mob: Light Me a Lucifer (1962).
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian television plays looks at the first local drama ever shown in this country: The Twelve Pound Look (1956).
Stephen Vagg’s series on forgotten Australian TV plays gets a bit STC/MTC-season-subscriber, looking at two different adaptations of Elizabethan classics: Othello (1964) and Volpone (1968).