Raymond Bowers

  Perth jounro.

*WW2 was a pilot in RAAF

*1949 stage play Take a Knife Gently see here

*March 1951 joins Melbourne Argus has just been on honeymoon see here 

*1954 arrived in England with wife see here

*June 1954 write article on soccer in Aust see here

*Dec 1955 piece about his first TV play In Writing see here. Another article here gives advice "

Don't "conform." Don't necessarily set the action in the Australian outback, never listen to Australians who go abroad and then come back full of advice.

*1956 Opportunity Murder - six part serial for BBC TV see here

*Apri 1957 The Man in Question - stage play starring John Gregson see here  - review of Manchester production here - renamed It's the Geography that Counts by June see here

*Feb 1958 TV serial More Than a Robbery set in Malaya see here

*Apr 1958 The Man in Question on commercial radio see here

*Nov 1958 writing TV series Stingaree for Sapphire films set in Oz see here 

*July 1960 TV serial Here Lies Miss Sabry see here - review here

*Dec 1960 TV play The Colonel see here 

*July 1961 TV play Listen James see here

*May 1962 The Clostin Case stage play debuts see here 

*July 1963 divorced from wife  see here - appealed in Sept see here

*Oct 1963 Rod Serling criticised The Right Thing see here

*Aug 1964 The Rght Thing airs in UK see here

*1964 writes The Planemakers TV series

*1965 writes TV series Front Page story see here  

*Oct 1965 TV play Please Love Me Wife see here

*Feb 1966 wrote The Ratcatchers - article here says he would regularly holiday in Madrid see here

*Feb 1966 article refers to living with two children and has won Screenwriters Guild Award see here

*Jjune 1967 TV series Champion Hosue see here

*July 1968 article describes him as one ofthe country's top 10 television script writers see here - "I'm glad I left [Australia].There is certainly no market for my plays there now."

*1968 stage play A Divorce in Chancery see here

*Dec 1968 ep of Love Story see here 

*1969 A Man for a House see here



Sunday Mercury 21 Jul 1968



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