Frank Roberts

 What do we know about the worst TV critic in Australia?

From searches he seems to have started writing for The Bulletin in Sydney.

Reviews

*The Bulletin Bards - 14 April 1962

*Say When - 5 May 1962

*Lola Montez - 19 May 1962

*The Teeth of the Wind - 26 May 1962 

*The BP Super Show, The Patriots, The Hobby Horse - 9 June 1962

*Suspect - 16 June 1962 

*The Critics - 23 June 1962

*The Johnny O'Keefe Show - 30 June 1962 

*The One Day of the Year/The Forbidden Rite - 28 July 1962

*She'll Be Right - 18 Aug 1962

*Sandy Stone - 25 Aug 1962 

*The Graham Kennedy Show -25 Aug 1962

* Manhaul, The Criminals - 15 Sept 1962

*Sing Sing Sing - 29 Sept 1962

*The Runner/Fury in Petticoats - 3 Nov 1962 

*Jonah - 10 Nov 1962 - quite positive 

*Review of 1962 in TV comments on Australian shows (mostly variety) - 29 Dec 1962

*Light Me a Lucifer - 5 Jan 1963

*Alcheringa, Prelude to Harvest - 2 Feb 1963

*Flowering Cherry - 2 March 1963

*The Pageant of Nationhood - 16 March 1963

*The Best of Kennedy - 30 March 1963

*Victoria Regina - 6 April 1963

*The Prisoner - 11 May 1963 

*Portrait of a Star - 1 June 1963 

*Ballad for One Gun - 27 July 1963

*The Hungry Ones, A Piece of Ribbon - 3 Aug 1963

*Vacancy on Vaughan Street - 17 Aug 1963

*The Right Thing - 19 Oct 1963 

*Consider Your Verdict - 16 Nov 1963

*The Gianaconda Smile, I Have Been Here Before, Man for All Seasons - 8 Feb 1964

*The Home Front - 15 Feb 1964

*Barley Charley - 23 May 1964 - comments on Guild 22 Aug 1964 response by Guild 12 Sept 1964

* Autumn Affair, Story of Peter Gray - 9 Jan 1965

*Homicide - 27 March 1965

* Magic Boomerang, Oz film industry - 22 May 1965 

* 66 and All That - 19 March 1966

* The Ray Taylor Show, Mavis Bramson - 26 March 1966

* Homicide - 28 May 1966

* Australian Playhouse Wall to Wall - 4 June 1966 

* My Name's McGooley - 3 Sept 1966

*Nice n Jucy - 10 Dec 1966

*Review of TV in 1966 takes swipes at Australian Playhouse - 29 Dec 1966

* Mavis Bramston Show - 25 Feb 1967 

*Kain - 29 April 1967 

* My Name's McGooley - 20 May 1967

* McGooley, bags Australian Playhouse - 24 June 1967 

* You Can't See Round Corners - 15 July 1967

* One Man's World - 29 July 1967

* The Brass Guitar, Ride on Big Dipper - 16 Sept 1967

* Review of TV for the year include swipes at Australian Playhouse and Mavis - 23 Dec 1967 

*Homicide - 7 Feb 1970

In the late 1960s he seemed to be taken off TV and did more book reviews. 

His fiction

*The Hard Ring of Authority - 24 Feb 1962

* It Could Be You - 3 March 1962