Australian TV Plays on American TV

 *Wicked is the Vine (1949) by Sumner Locke Elliot - based on his radio play set in Australia

*The Crater - Lights Out (1949) by Sumner Locke Elliot - based on his one act play set in Queensland 

*Daisy Daisy (1955) by Sumner Locke Elliot, directed by Arthur Penn - about Australian girl - A down-and-out novelist, desperate at the rejection of the novel over which he has laboured for eight years, dashes off a story in a night, submits it as the journal of the first love of simple Australian girl Daisy Smith, and sees 'Daisy's' book become an overnight success. (Not set in Australia) 

*Petrov Defection

*The Tichborne Claimant - Joseph Cotten Show (1957)

* The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) - by Sumner Locke Elliot - set in Queensland

*Shadow of a Pale Horse (1960) by Bruce Stewart

*The Devil Makes Sunday (1961) by Bruce Stewart

*The Poisoner - Thriller - about Thomas Wainwrighet (1961)

*Whiplash (1961) - TV series

*Adventures in Paradise - TV series. W Davies in the Vincent Report - "I remember a series called “Adventures in Paradise” which dealt with something in Brisbane. In it, Brisbane looked like a shanty town, and the policemen all wore wide hats and had big guns on their belts. It was a ridiculous thing."

*Rawhide - Incident of the Boomerang (1961) w Michael Pate

*The Down Under Caper - 77 Sunset Strip (1962) w Roger Smith - guest starring Victoria Shaw, Australian actress who had been in The Phantom Stockman and Michael Pate, Gil Perkins and Michael St Clair, another real Aussie

*The Tape Recorder (1970)

*McCloud - Night of the Shark (1976) - GS Victoria Shaw, Rowena Wallace, Gus Mercurio, Alwyn Kurts (it was shot in oz)

No comments:

Post a Comment