Love and War (Australian TV series)

It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.

Love and War
Directed byPatrick Barton
Oscar Whitbread
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerJohn Croyston
Running time90 mins
Release
Original networkABC
Original release6 September 1967 (1967-09-06)

Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.[1]

Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw

Date 6 September 1967 (Sydney) as part of Wednesday Theatre. Produced by Patrick Barton. It went for 60 minutes.[2][3]

The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963.

Cast

Sergeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden

Date 13 September 1967 (Sydney). It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.[5]

Plot

An anti-war fanatic falls victim to anarchy of his own making. In England at the end of the 19th century a small group of soldiers, led by the hardest man in the line", goes to a strike bound mining town in the north of England.

Cast
  • Wynn Roberts as Sergeant Musgrave
  • Sean Scully
  • Richard Meikle
  • Edward Hepple
  • Michael Boddy
  • Don Crosby
  • Neva Carr Glynn
  • Alice Fraser

Production

It was shot in Sydney under the direction of John Croyston.[6]

L'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw

Date 20 September 1967 (Sydney). It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre and went for 70 minutes.[7]

Cast
  • Edwin Hodgeman
  • Kerry Maguire
  • Moray Powell
  • Audrey Teasdale

The Brass Butterfly by William Golding

Date 27 September 1967. Directed by John Croyston. It went for 90 minutes.[8]

Premise

In Ancient Rome an emperor reflect on his life.

Cast
  • Peter Collingwood as Emperor
  • Ron Graham
  • Sue Condon
  • Peter Rowley as Maximilus
  • Mark Albiston as Postumus
  • Alistair Duncan as scientist
  • Diana Ferris as Euphresne

Intersection by Michael Boddy

Date 4 October 1967 (Sydney)[9] as part of Wednesday Theatre. Went for 65 minutes.[10]

Plot

A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.

Cast

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."[11]

Construction by John Croyston

Date 11 October 1967. Director: Storry Walton.

Cast
  • Ron Graham
  • Moya O'Sullivan.[12]

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)

References
  1. "Plays with themes of love and war". The Canberra Times. 42 (11, 784). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 September 1967. p. 16.
  3. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 September 1967. p. 13.
  4. "WEDNESDAY I". The Canberra Times. 42 (11, 784). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 13 September 1967. p. 14.
  6. "Love and War on the Stage". Sydney Morning Herald. 11 September 1967. p. 13.
  7. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 September 1967. p. 25.
  8. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 25 September 1967. p. 13.
  9. "TELEVISION A night of free TV". The Canberra Times. 42 (11, 815). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 October 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 October 1967. p. 16.
  11. "ON TELEVISION It's tough for TV writers". Sydney Morning Herald. 5 October 1967. p. 11.
  12. "LEISURE THE ARTS". The Canberra Times. 42 (11, 816). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 October 1967. p. 24. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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