The Sin Shifter (16 September 1962)

 TV play by Bruce Stewart set in Australia.

Premise 

In an Australian coastal town, fisherman Manny Barnes comes into conflict with the local clergy, Father Brady, as he tries to halt the decline in his fishing town by turning it into a gambling spot. A girl, Rose, is caught ebtween the two.  

Cast

• Patrick Wymark as Manny Barnes
• James Maxwell as Father Brady
• Harry Towb as Enoch O'Connor
• John Tate as Bly
• Lisa Peake as Rose Kawayka

 

Liverpool Echo 15 Sept 1962

Nottingham Evening News 15 Sept 1962

Liverpool Echo 15 Sept 1962

Liverpool Post 17 Sept 1962

Huddersfield Daily 22 Sept 1962

Patrick Barton

 ABC director

British.

Came to Australia when 12 and educated at Cranbrook and Geelong Grammar. Returned to Britain when 18.

Then worked in London from Commercial TV since 1955 - came back to Australia around 1960. Worked at ABC in Perth and Adelaide.

 Select Credits

You Can't Win 'Em All (1962) 

Night Stop (1963)

The Gioconda Smile (1963)

Double Yolk (1963)

The Hot Potato Boys (1963)

Othelle (1964) 

The Angry General (1964)

The Sponge Room (1964)

The Road (1964)

Wind from the Icy Country (1964)

A Provincial Lady (1964)

Romanoff and Juliet (1965)

Dangerous Corner (1965)

Daphne Laureola (1965)

A Time to Speak (1965) 

Cross of Gold (1965) 

Australian Playhouse - 4 eps

Ashes to Ashes (1966)

Antigone (1966)

Third Witness (1966)

Flight into Danger (1966)

Man of Destiny (1967)

Goodbye Gloria Hello (1967)

Cobwebs in Concrete (1968)

Good Neighbour 1 Feb 1961

 

Frank Harvey 1965 letter about Oz play writing

Defends Hugh Hunt at the Trust - refers to developing writers like Barbara Vernon, etc

SMH 2 July 1965

 

SMH 16 July 1965

SMH 30 June 1965

Article So You Want to Write Television

 Article about writing TV plays from someone I'd never heard of

Plays the ABC Could Have put on

Historical plays would've been safe

 - Tether the Dragon - about Alfred Deakin (Vic)

- The Explorers

- Spoiled Darlings by Edmund Barclay

 - Jane My Love by Catherine Shepherd - about the Franklins (Tas)

- Awake My Love by Max Afford (SA)

- The Starlit Valley by  Catherine Shepherd (Tas)

- Daybreak by Catherine Shepherd (Tas)

- Portrait of a Gentlemen by George Farwell (Tas)

- Red Sky at Morning

Radio related

- Mischief in the Air by Max Afford

- Invisible Circus by Sumner Locke Elliott 

- The Remittance Man by Richard Lane

Put on in England

- Granite Peak by Betty Roland

Soapy drama

- Cornerstone by Gwen Meredith

Ric Throssell

- Legend

Antartica

- Eternal Night by James Workman

Comedy

- Find the Bunyip

Verse Play

- The Illusionst by Morris West

Artier stuff

- Consulting Room by Max Afford

Short plays

- Nellie Lacy and the Bushranger

Mini series

- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

- For The Term of His Natural Life

- Come in Spinner

Maybe 

- Murder in the Silo

Mystery

- The Crater by S L Elliott

- Wicked is the Vince by Elliott