Ep three.
It was a business drama by "CF Barnes" or "Charles S. Barnes" a nom de plume for an Australian novelist.
Was this Morris West?
Premise
When minority shareholder Arthur Lambert moves out of the boardroom and becomes involved in the day-to-day running of the firm of Conquest Engineering, managing director Lionel Keyes and marketing manager Richard Parrish start to wonder about the security of their jobs.
Parrish makes a bid for power over Keyes.
Cast
- Tony Ward as Don Harriman
- Richard Parry
- Peter Reynolds
- John Warwick
- Don Barkham
- Brian Anderson
- Kirsty Child
Totem Pole
I think it was adapted from Totem Pole by John Kiddell. Done on ABC radio in 1968 adapted by Joy HOollyer see here. This was reviewed here. ABC version broadcast on ABC in 1970 see here. Later adapted 1972 see here.
Kidell wrote a lot of YA novels. His works include Day of the Dingo (1957), The Giant of the Bush (1963), Euloowiree Walkabout (1969), Tod (1968). He "devised" The Battlers see here.
Articles on him here in 1969 lived in Hunters Hill. March 1969 said he lived off his earnings as writer big seller in USA but not known in Oz see here. July 1969 said Totem Pole been soldto BBC radio and also ABC radio and he helped write The Battlers see here.
Died 6 March 1987 see here
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| The Age 2 July 1970 TV Guide |
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| The Age 4 July 970 p 17 |
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| The Age TV Guide 19 June 1970 p 1 |
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| SMH 4 Sept 1969 p 6 |
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| TV Times Vic |
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