TV Plays Scheduled Not Made

The Whip ((july (1958) - d Royston Morley - replaced by Sixty Point Bold

 Moon After Midnight (Aug 1958) - d Ray Menmuir

Last Case (Sept 1958) d Alan Burke - was this Last Call?

Arsenic and Old Lace (Dec 1958) - d Paul O'Loughlin

Some Other Moon (1958)

Arsenic and Old Lace (late 1960 or 1961) - by Crawfords

The Foreign Born (2 Nov 1960) - d Alan Burke - Australian play - replaced with Venus Observed

Napoleon in Love (1961) - done by BBC in 1965 - Australian radio in 1960

The Relapse (1962) - too expensive (Will Sterling was going to direct)

Arms and the Man (1962)

Don't Forget the Basics (1965) by Terence Frisby - adapted ABC radio 1974

The Opal Witch (1965)  - A tale of witchcraft in the Australian outback by Jean Brooks - Originally purchased by the ABC as a television play, in 1962. Brooks noted, at the time of the stage play's production in 1967, that it was set for production in 1963, but postponed by a technical hitch: the ABC had told her that the production was still planned, but had not set a date. adapted ABC radio 1967 by Jean Brooks (copy at NAA)

King Tide Running (1965) by Barbara Vernon , Bruce Beaver - based on 1964 stage play - complete script at NAA d Pat Barton

Proposed in 1967-68: Hamlet, The Seagull

1967 Joe Wilson's Courtship adapted by Kevin McGrath

The Unforgiving by Joan Lindsay (a lot of correspondence in Part 10)

Whinge from Neil Hutchison about dropping longer plays to David Goddard below.

John Croyston says was going to make Oh What a Lovely War and Hamlet but stopped by Ken Watts (Shirley oral history).



















AWW 26 Jul 1967









NAA Syd 64-65

NAA Syd 64-65


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