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Eye Of The Night
''Eye of the Night'' is a 1960 Australian television play. It was written by Kay Keavney and directed by Christopher Muir. It was broadcast live on the ABC from Melbourne on the night of Wednesday 24 February. In Sydney on the same night the ABC were doing a live broadcast of the play '' The Turning Point''. These two were the first in a series of ten plays made by the ABC in 1960 using local writers, others including ''The Astronauts'' and ''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day''. (Other plays possibly included '' Close to the Roof'', ''Dark Under the Sun'', ''The Square Ring'', ''Who Killed Kovali?'', and ''Swamp Creatures''.) Plot A man breaks into homes at night and terrorises women. He eludes police for two years. In the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, a woman, Ruth Arnott, fears that a man in her own house, a man oppressed by his mother, may be the attacker. The opening scenes take place at Victorian Police Headquarters with the rest at a house in Sunshine. Cast *Beverley Dunn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Keavney
Kay Keavney (1921–1989) was an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney. She went to work at the ABC, the youngest person and the first woman to be hired as a scriptwriter by that organisation. She resigned from the ABC in 1945. In the late 1940s she wrote serials and plays for various networks and production companies and became one of the leading writers of Australian radio. She went to London to study writing TV drama at the BBC and wrote episodes of ''The Adventures of Long John Silver''. She won two Walkley Awards for her journalism. Select Credits *''Mantle of Greatness'' (1948) (radio play) *'' A Tale of Christmas'' (1954) (television play) *''The Adventures of Long John Silver'' (1955) (TV series) – writer of various episodes *'' Eye of the Night'' (1960) (television play) *''The Barber'' (1962) – novel *''The Nurse's Story'' (1962) (documentary) *''The Story of Peter Grey ''The Story of Peter Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Muir
} Christopher Muir (1931 - 2022) was an Australian director and producer, notable for his work in TV in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1980s he was head of ABC Television drama. Biography Most of his early childhood was spent in France, but he returned to Melbourne upon the outbreak of World War II. He joined the ABC in 1949 at the recommendation of his headmaster upon completing his schooling at Melbourne Grammar School. Initially working as a messenger boy, he soon became a general trainee, and by 1954 he was a radio announcer. In 1955 the ABC seconded him to Paris to study television. He returned to Melbourne for the inauguration of ABC television in 1956. The ensuing decade saw him become a pioneer of television drama and music productions, often screened live-to-air during prime time on the ABC. In an interview about the ABC's live TV drama he said "We producers had a buzz around us wherever we went but we also faced a lot of criticism. I thought 60 percent of what we did was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turning Point (1960 Film)
''Turning Point'' is a 1960 Australian television play. It was broadcast live on the ABC from Sydney on the night of 24 February. In Melbourne the ABC were doing a live broadcast of the play ''Eye of the Night''. These two were the first in a series of ten plays made by the ABC in 1960 using local writers, others including ''The Astronauts'' and ''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day''. (Other plays possibly included '' Close to the Roof'', ''Dark Under the Sun'', ''The Square Ring'', ''Who Killed Kovali?'', and ''Swamp Creatures''.) Plot A murderer on the run, Chicka, stops in a remote South Australian town of Edenberrry. He kidnaps one of its women, Joan, when he thinks the town's policeman is going to arrest him. He runs off with her, punctures his petrol tank, but returns to kill her children after she runs away while he sleeps. The policeman arrives just in time to save the situation. Cast *Rod Milgate as Chicka *Benita Harvey as Joan *Deryck Barnes as policeman *Jane Coghlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Close To The Roof
''Close to the Roof'' is a 1960 Australian live television play which aired on ABC. Broadcast 14 December 1960 in Sydney, it was kinescoped ("telerecorded") and shown in Melbourne on 25 January 1961 (it is not known it was also shown on ABC's stations in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth). Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. It was also adapted for radio by the ABC in 1960. Plot In a house in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, two siblings, Lucy and Charlie, prepare the beds in their attic for guests. The siblings are the children of Tony Perelli, a widowed Italian migrant who is bitter about his lack of success in Australia, and who is determined to return home from whose children come home. Tony refuses to let Lucy work and does not know the Charlie has been boxing, thinking that he is going to be a musician. Two men, Wally and Joe, arrive to stay in the attic. They were part of a trio who robbed a band at Newtown, which resulted in people being injured; the third m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Under The Sun
''Dark Under the Sun'' is a 1960 Australian TV play. It was written by Brisbane author, Chris Gardner, who also wrote ''The House of Mancello'' (1962) and ''A Private Island'' (1964). Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. The play concerned an interracial romance which led ''Filmink'' magazine to think it was "an indication that Australian television was willing to confront some of the nation’s trickier social issues head on." Other Australian TV plays to deal with racial issues included ''Burst of Summer''. However the Aboriginal character is played by a white actor in blackface. It was aired on ABC and ran for an hour on Wednesday 27 April 1960 at 8.30pm. It was produced in Melbourne. Plot In the town of Nombora, a university-educated half-aboriginal man, Jim Robertson, falls for a white woman, his childhood playmate, Julie Handford. Social and family problems begin when they decide to get married. The play is set at a homestead near a Queensland banana plantati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Square Ring (play)
''The Square Ring'' is a 1952 play by Ralph Peterson. Premise The story of several boxers who are fighting on the one night. They include Docker Starkie, a boxer making a comeback. Background Peterson wrote an Australian radio play about boxing, '' Come Out Fighting'' which aired in 1950. Peterson moved to London in 1951 and wrote a stage version, ''The Square Ring'', over a three-month period. He sent the play to Anthony Quayle, whom he had met in Sydney when Quayle was touring with the Stratford Players (Quayle had appeared in a radio play written by Peterson about Aboriginal issues, "The Problem of Johnny Flourcake"). Quayle was going to put it on himself but then accepted another theatrical tour of Australia so he passed it to H. M. Tennents, the London theatre agency, who agreed to produce it. After several weeks of rehearsal, the play premiered in Brighton in September 1952 with a mostly male cast but one female, the wife of the central character. Peterson said "the play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Killed Kovali?
''Who Killed Kovali?'' is a 1960 Australian television play. It had previously been filmed for British TV in 1957. It was made at a time Australian TV drama was rare. Plot Hungarian tennis player Ivor Kovali is playing in a semi-final at Wimbledon against Australian player Tony Hargreaves. Kovali, who is winning the game, is chewing sweets then dies suddenly of arsenic poisoning. A Scotland Yard inspector, Carson, looks into the murder with the help of his assistant, Sgt Scott. Suspects include his widow Maria, who hated Kovali's cruelty; Maria's lover Dimitri; Tony Hargreaves, who stood to win a thousand pounds if he won the game; Australian player Jeff Willis who Kovali accused of cheating; American played Pedro Moreno who was going to face Kovali in the final. When Carson views footage of the game he figures out whodunnit. Cast *Keith Eden as Inspector Carson *Charles Sinclair as Sgt Scott *Mark Kelly as Tony Hargreaves *Alan Hopgood as Jeff Willis *Fay Kelton as Jill M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swamp Creatures
''Swamp Creatures'' is a play by the Australian author Alan Seymour. He wrote it for radio, stage and TV. It was Seymour's first produced play. Plot Two sisters live together in the Australian bush, the dominant Constance and the frail Amy. Amy's son Christian returns after having disappeared when he was in his teens. For Constance, the swamp is a symbol of life. For Amy it is a nightmare. It turns out genetic experiments were made by a driven woman and her handyman, Charlie Fall. Background The play was written in 1955–56. In 1956 it was the runner-up in a play competition held by the Journalists' Club and judged by the Playwrights' Advisory Board. In 1957 it was one of the twenty-five finalists in the play competition held by the London Observer. It was first performed by the Canberra Repertory Society in 1957. Cast of original production *Joyce Goodes as Constance *Barbara Shanahan as Amy *Michael Dennis as Christian *Harry Schmidt as Mr Fall *Daphne Curtis as Mrs Fall Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian James (actor)
Brian James (5 July 1918 – 2 November 2009) was an Australian radio, stage, television and film actor. Early life, radio and theatre Brian James was born in Melbourne, the son of the Bishop of St. Arnaud and started his career as a teacher at Ivanhoe Grammar School for four years, in 1933 joining the Royal Australian Navy, after which he was demobilised five years later, and decided to pursue a career as an actor, attending Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, making his stage debut in 1947 and he featured in the 1952 J.C. Williamson production of ''Seagulls Over Sorrento''. He would also appear in the 1960 TV production of the play. According to Richard Lane "in that first decade of television it seemed that Brian James was everywhere." He also appeared in ABC radio plays. Television James appeared in several ABC drama plays in the late 1950s, including ''Duke In Darkness'' and '' Killer in Close-Up: The Wallace Case'' in 1957, ''Gaslight'', ''The Small V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Miller (Australian Actor)
Dennis Michael Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor, and comedian. He was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1991, and he subsequently hosted a string of his own talk shows on HBO, CNBC, and also in syndication. From 2007 to 2015, Miller hosted a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One. On March 9, 2020, ''Dennis Miller + One'' show, launched on RT America. It ran twice-weekly and featured celebrity interviews. Miller is listed as 21st on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time, and was ranked as the best host of ''SNL''s ''Weekend Update'' by Vulture.com. Early life Miller was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon. He is of Scottish descent. Miller's parents separated and he was raised by his mother, Norma who was a dietitian at a Baptist nursing home. Miller is reluctant to speak about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Conabere
Sydney Leicester Conabere (8 July 191815 July 2008) was an Australian actor. He was notable for his work in theatre, film and television drama in a career spanning more than fifty years. In 1962 Conabere won the Logie award for Best Actor, for his performance in the television play ''The One Day of the Year''. He worked prolifically as a stage actor from 1938 to 1989, particularly with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Melbourne Little Theatre, sharing the stage (and applause) with Irene Mitchell in, for example, Lilian Hellman's ''The Little Foxes''. Conabere had an extensive career as a character actor from the 1950s to the 2000s, regularly appearing in popular Australian television serials, including ''Emergency'', ''Matlock Police'' and ''Homicide''. He worked for a short period in the United Kingdom, appearing in the drama serials ''Z Cars'' and ''Sherlock Holmes'', the comedy ''Please Sir!'', and in the crime film '' Man of Violence''. In the 1980s Conabere reached a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Dobson
Agnes or Agness may refer to: People *Agnes (name), the given name, and a list of people named Agnes or Agness * Wilfrid Marcel Agnès (1920–2008), Canadian diplomat Places *Agnes, Georgia, United States, a ghost town * Agnes, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community *Agness, Oregon, United States, an unincorporated community * Agnes Township, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States * Agnes, Victoria, Australia, a town Arts and entertainment Music * Agnes (band), a Christian rock band ** ''Agnes'' (album), 2005 album by rock band Agnes * "Agnes" (Donnie Iris song) 1980 *"Agnes", a song by Glass Animals for the album ''How to Be a Human Being'' * Agnes (singer) a Swedish recording artist Other arts and entertainment *Agnes (card game), a patience or solitaire card game * ''Agnes'' (comic strip), a syndicated comic strip by Tony Cochran * ''Agnes'' (film), a 2021 American horror film * ''Agnes'' (novel), by Peter Stamm *Agnes, the alias used by the character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
