Roundabout_(1957_film)

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Roundabout (1957 film)

Australian TV series or program

Roundabout is a television movie, or rather a live television play, which aired on Australian television in 1957. Broadcast 4 January 1957 on ABC station ABV-2, it is notable as the first example of television drama produced in Melbourne.[3][4]

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It was made at a time when Australian drama production was rare.[5]

"Official" television broadcasting in the city had only begun two months earlier. There seems to have been a Melbourne production and a Sydney production, as happened with The Twelve Pound Look.

Plot

The original TV listing in The Age newspaper described the plot as "a woman's reactions to her husband's suspected affair with another woman".[6]

Melbourne cast

Production

The show is based on a 1952 one-act play by Michael Clayton-Hutton.

A Melbourne production was aired live on 4 January 1957 over 30 minutes. Production was by Bill Eldridge.[7] Filming took place at ABC's studios at Ripponlea. Star Patrick Horgan was appearing on stage at the time and had to get in a taxi to the theatre after filming.[8] Beverly Dunn went on to appear in a number of live TV productions.[9]

Sydney production

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A Sydney production was directed by Raymond Menmuir and aired February 19, 1957.[12][13]

Cast

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "TV Guide". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 20.
  2. [2]
    "Advertising". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 4 January 1957. p. 18. Retrieved 11 May 2020 – via Trove.
  3. [3]
    "From School Plays to Success on TV". The Age. 19 September 1958. p. 20.
  4. [4]
    "Gaslight on TV with Melbourne Cast". The Age. 2 January 1958. p. 8.
  5. [5]
    Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  6. [6]
    "ABC Channel 2". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 11.
  7. [7]
    "TV Guide". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 8.
  8. [8]
    "Drama, Interviews "Live" on ABV-2". The Age. 3 January 1957. p. 15.
  9. [9]
    Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. pp. 132–134.
  10. [10]
    "TV—Channel 2 ABN". ABC Weekly. Vol. 19, no. 7. 16 February 1957. p. 31.
  11. [11]
    "TV Guide". Sydey Morning Herald. 4 January 1957. p. 14.
  12. [12]
    "TV—Channel 2 ABn". ABC Weekly. 19 February 1957. p. 39.
  13. [13]
    "TV, Radio Programs". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 February 1957. p. 13.


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