Australian TV Plays: Countdown at Woomera (13 June 1961)

Play on British TV. IMDB page is here. ITV play of the week. BFI page here.

Plot

In 1968 the European and British Commonwealth Space Federation are about to send a manned space craft to the moon.

Cast
*Neil McCallum as Robert McKerrell, the man going into space

*Sylvia Kay as Margaret Paisley, his girlfriend

*Patrick Barr as Gen. O’Connor, the Australian in charge of the program

*John Welsh as Sir Robert Trevelyan, the Cabinet minister

*Fred Abbott as Tracker
Ian Anderson

*Terence Bayler as Checker
*Michael Blakemore as Public Relations Officer
*Roger Clayton as Tracker
*Lorne Cossette
8Allan Cuthbertson as Supt. Steel
*Brian Dent as Tracker
*David Ryder as Checker
*Jeffrey Gardiner
*John Glyn-Jones as Dr Newton
*Ernest Hare
*Edward Harvey as Home Secretary
*John Herrington
*Robert Hewitt
*Lesley Jackson

*Annette Kerr
*Trevor Maskell
*John Matthews as Checker

*John Miller as Prime Minister
*Max Miradin
*Bobby R. Naidoo
*Ben Nightingale
*Edmund Otero
*Howard Pays
*John Read as Checker
*George Roubicek as Tracker
*Alister Smart as Checker
*Charles Stanley as Checker
*John Tate as Prof. Leighton
*Leon Thau as Checker
*Mira Tomek
*Maurice Travers as Checker
*Paul Williamson
*Alan Wilson
*Terence Woodfield

Director - Cyril Coke. Writer - Henry Bentinck

Producer

Writer Henry Bentick got the idea from looking at a woman gazing at the moon and wondering what it would be like for a girl whose boyfriend went to the moon. See here.