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[Australian television play] [date=October 2016] [date=October 2016] {{Infobox
television | image = | image_upright = | image_alt = | caption = | creator = |
based_on = play by Raymond Bowers | writer = | screenplay = | story = |
director = Kevin Shine | starring = | narrated = | music = | country =
Australia | language = English | num_episodes = | producer = | editor = |
cinematography = | runtime = 75 minutes.[1] | company = ABC | budget = |
network = ABC | released = [1961] (Sydney) | released2 = [1961]
(Melbourne)[2][3] | released3 = [1962] (Brisbane)<ref name="times"/> }} _IN
WRITING_ is a 1961 Australian television play by an Australian writer living
in London, Raymond Bowers, and directed by Kevin Shine.
It was first presented on the BBC in London in 1956 and was also presented on
stage and radio.<ref name="smh"/>[4]
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[5] It was one of several
thrillers filmed in the early days of Australian television.[6][7]
** Plot
According to the _Sydney Morning Herald_ it was "the story of an unusual
murder in London involving a husband and wife, investigated in an unorthodox
manner by Detective-Inspector Hurst."[8] James Peebles has befriended John
Clostin's wife and Clostin is unhappy with that.
** Cast
- Leonard Teale as Detective Inspector Hurst
- Ric Hutton as John Clostin
- Anne Haddy as Mrs Clostin
- James Workman as Pr Bowman
- Richard Parry as James Peebles
- Jack Ford as Sergeant
- Carolyn Keely as waitress
** Production
It was produced for British TV in 1956 with a cast including Bernard Lee and
Terence Morgan.
It was Bowers' second script done for Australian TV the first being _It's the
Geography That Counts_.<ref name="times"/>[9]
The play was also performed on Australian radio in 1961.[10]
** Reception
The _Sydney Morning Herald_ called it an "unpretentious little suspense play
which several times tripped over its own excess of ingenuity" and "suppressed
far too many major facts to play fair with the audience."[11]
** References
[reflist]
** External links
- [tt0385773]
- 1956 British TV production (see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt01302239/) at IMDb
Category:1961 films Category:Australian television plays Category:1961
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