Love and War (Australian TV series)

Love and War
Directed byPatrick Barton
Oscar Whitbread
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerJohn Croyston
Running time90 mins
Original release
NetworkABC
Release6 September (1967-09-06) –
11 October 1967 (1967-10-11)

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

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.

Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw

Date: 6 September 1967
Producer: Patrick Barton
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 60 minutes.[2][3]

The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963.[4]

Cast

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden

Date: 13 September 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.[6]

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

O'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw

Date: 20 September 1967
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 70 minutes.[7]

Cast

The Brass Butterfly by William Golding

Date: 27 September 1967
Director: John Croyston
It ran for 90 minutes.[8]

Premise

In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.

Cast

Intersection by Michael Boddy

Date: 4 October 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre, and ran for 65 minutes.[9][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

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)

References

  1. ^ "Plays with themes of love and war". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 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. ^ Vagg, Stephen (4 October 2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: Point of Departure and Man of Destiny". Filmink. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  5. ^ "WEDNESDAY I". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 784. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 13 September 1967. p. 14.
  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. Vol. 42, no. 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. Vol. 42, no. 11, 816. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 October 1967. p. 24. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.