Australian TV Plays: Phillip Grenville Mann (24 December 1921

He won a series of prizes as a young writer.

Had play accepted by ABC when 14.

1937 won a prize while at North Sydney high School see here.

He studied Arts at Sydney Uni until 1939.

Served in the Royal Australian Navy for five years. Became officer. Promoted 1944 see here. Served on Wilcannia.

Wrote radio play The Sea Between in Oct Nov 1945.

April 1946 his radio play The Seas Between won a 200 pound prize. Presented for Lux with Peter Finch starring. Review is here. Good article on Mann is here. At time was doing post-grad course in teaching according to this piece here.

1947 reading of the Kelly Country at Independent. 1948 was a stage manager there.

The Seas between (1946) – radio play starring Peter Finch

The Kelly Country (1947) - stage play - reading

*Over to Mother (1949) - play about radio - Feb 1950 finished a successful run in Little Theatres see here.

*The Housing Problem (1949) - radio play
Dear Enemy (July 1951) – radio play - Michael Pate starred - won a 100 pound award see here - won second prize in another comp a year ago read here

*The Antheap (Dec 1951) - stage play - review here

*Hibiscus Red (Feb 1952) radio play - synopsis here

*Dinner at Judge Beaumonts (Feb 1952) - radio pla - synopsis here

*Bright blue Sky (Jul 1952) - radio play about return of husband thought to be dead

*The Firing Squad (1952) - radio play - synopsis here

*The Night of the Party (Oct 1952) - radio play - synopsis here

*The Diplomat (Mar 1953) radio play

*Love Story (Jun 1953) radio play

*Dark Corridor (Sept 1953) - radio play

1954? Moves to UK?

The Cat Scratches (1954) - radio play
Theatre Royal episode “Dead or Alive” (1956) – TV play – became Funnel Web
Shadow Squad (1958) – TV series – various episodes - article on him here
The Verdict is Yours (1958) – TV series – various episodes

Married 1951 to Bertha
April 1960 - won equal first prize Journalist club for his play The Sgt from Lone Pine.

The Probation Officer (1960) – TV series

Oct 1960 returns from UK

He became a staff writer at the ABC. He replaced Rex Rienits as drama editor at the ABC

The Attorney General (1961) – TV play

The Sergeant from Burralee (1961) – TV play
The Patriots (1962) – TV series
Funnel Web (1962) – TV play
Ballad for One Gun’ (1963) – TV play

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Nov 1963) - adaptation for TV

Day After Yesterday - a play he was shifting in 1963 (see Double Yolk)

The Death Trap (1964) radio play see here
Day of Glory (1964) – play - reading - produced in 1970 - I think based on Sgt of Burralee see here
Luther (1964) – TV play – adaptation of the play by John Osborne
* The Keys of Heaven (1966) (novel) - about convicts on Norfolk Island - based on era of The Patriots - review is here and here
The Red Gardenia (1966) - radio play starring Ron Haddrick
Undercover (1968) - radio play starring Richard Meikle
Certain Women (1971) – TV series
Eight Days a Week (1972) – stage play

Aug 1970 still a script editor at ABC TV see here.

Behind the Legend - Eddie Gilbert (1974) TV play 0- wrote it see here

Candles in the Sun (1978) – novel
How Sleep the Brave (1979) – play based on Mann's RAN experiences
Over to Mother – a play

Died 19 June 1990 see here

Ausstage credits here.