This was a thing
Plays for Radio and Telvision ed Nigel Samuel, Longmans in London, 1959 - included Fire on the Snow by Douglas Stewart (radio play)
On the Air: Five Radio and Television Plays ed PR Smith, Angus and Robertson, Melbourne, 1959 - listed five plays only one of which was Australian despite this being an Australian edited volume, Burke and Wills by Colin Thiele
Anatomy of a television play: An Inquiry by John Russell Taylor into the production of two ABC Armchair Theatre Plays, 1959, Weidenfeld & Nicolson - British book on two British plays, The Rose Affair and Afternoon of a Nymph
The Television Playwright: Ten Plays for BBC Television, Ed Donald Wilson, selected bt Michael Barry, London: Michael Joseph, 1960 - plays incThe Small Victory by Iain MacCormick, Call Me a Liar by John Mortimer - the intro to Small Victory calls MacCormick "among the few [writers] who did not regard television as a gimcrack alternative to more reputable litrerary activitieis.. He appreciated a few form for the playwright to explore, a new audience waiting to be reached at the end of a new mans of communication."
In Focus: Scripts from Commercial Television's Second Decade, ed Don Reid, Frand Bladwell, Macillian of Aust English Teachers Assoc of NSW, 1972 - included five commercial TV eps (Wobinda, Barrier Reef, Skippy, The Godfathers, Matlock Police)
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