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Quality Of Mercy (TV Series)
''Quality of Mercy'' is a 1975 Australian TV series, which took the format of an anthology of television plays. All the scripts were by female writers. The series was commissioned by John Croyston, the head of ABC TV Drama, and was produced in Melbourne and Sydney. It was followed later in 1975 by a companion series, ''The Seven Ages of Man''. Episodes References External links''Quality of Mercy''at IMDb''Quality of Mercy''at National Film & Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national c ... 1970s Australian drama television series English-language television shows 1975 Australian television series debuts 1975 Australian television series endings {{Australia-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology Series
An anthology series is a radio, television, video game or film series that spans different genres and presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a different cast in each episode, but several series in the past, such as ''Four Star Playhouse'', employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a different drama each week. Some anthology series, such as '' Studio One'', began on radio and then expanded to television. Etymology The word comes from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (''anthología'', “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (''anthologéō'', "I gather flowers"), from ἄνθος (''ánthos'', "flower") + λέγω (''légō'', "I gather, pick up, collect"), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (''stéphanos'', "garland")) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being ''The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Lt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Television Shows
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1970s Australian Drama Television Series
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IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Vernon (writer)
Barbara Mary Vernon (25 July 1916 – 16 April 1978) was an Australian playwright, screenwriter, editor and radio announcer. Her plays included ''The Passionate Pianist'' and ''The Multi-Coloured Umbrella''. She was the head writer and script editor of the ABC TV drama series '' Bellbird'', the longest such series produced by the ABC, she also wrote the film adaptation of that series entitled ''Country Town''Jane Connors, 'Vernon, Barbara Mary (1916–1978)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vernon-barbara-mary-11922/text21359, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 5 June 2016. Biography Vernon was born on 25 July 1916, Inverell, New South Wales the youngest child of four to medical practitioner Murray Menzies Vernon and Constance Emma Elliot (née Barling). She attended the New England School in Armidale, New South Wales , before entering the Women's Auxiliary Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriel Gray
Oriel Holland Bennett (26 March 1920 – 30 June 2003) known by pen name Oriel Gray, was an Australian dramatist, playwright and screenwriter who wrote from the 1940s to 1990s. The major themes of her work were gender equality and "social and political issues such as the environment, Aborigines, assimilation and bush life". Early life Gray was born ''Oriel Holland Bennett'' in Sydney, New South Wales. Her father and grandfather owned a newspaper in Young, New South Wales. With the death of her mother in 1926, her older sister Grayce became the guiding female presence of her formative years. Gray came from a politically active family, her father briefly held the seat of Werriwa for the Australian Labour Party Gray was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1942 to 1950. She remained active in the peace movement until the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975. Personal life She married John Gray in 1940, an actor whom she met while at the Sydney New Theatre an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Borg
Sonia Ingeborg Borg (20 February 1931 – 4 February 2016) was an Austrian-Australian writer and producer, one of the leading screenwriters of Australian films and TV in the 1960 and 70s. After extensive experience in theatre in Germany, India and South-East Asia she moved to Australia in 1961 and worked as a stage and television actress before becoming joining Crawford Productions in Melbourne. She wrote, produced and acted at Crawfords until the mid-1970s and worked on most of the company's dramas of the period in a range of roles. In the late 1970s she also became known for writing children's films, often about animals, such as '' Storm Boy ''and ''Blue Fin'' both based on books by Colin Thiele.Paul Davies, "Sonia Borg", ''Cinema Papers'', Oct–Nov 1978 p109-111, 162 In 1985 Borg was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to the film and television industry. Select Writings *'' Homicide'' (1964–73; TV series) *''Division 4'' (1970–75; TV series) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Brooksbank
Anne Mary Brooksbank (born 1943) is an Australian writer. She has written a number of novels as well as scripts for film and TV. She teaches screenwriting at The Australian Film Television and Radio School. Personal life She was born in Melbourne and studied English literature and history at Melbourne University and painting at the National Gallery School before becoming a professional writer. She was married to Bob Ellis, with whom she occasionally collaborated. Novels *''Mad Dog Morgan'' (1976) *''Archer'' (1985) *''On Loan'' (1990) *''All My Love'' (1991) *''Marriage Acts'' (2000) *''Mother's Day'' (2005) *''Sir Katherine'' *''Big Thursday'' *''Father's Day'' Select film and TV credits *''Avengers of the Reef'' (1973) *''Case for the Defence'' (1978) *'' Maybe This Time'' (1980) *''The Winds of Jarrah'' (1983) *'' Land of Hope'' (1986) *''All My Love'' (2015), a play about Henry Lawson and Mary Gilmore Dame Mary Jean Gilmore (née Cameron; 16 August 18653 December 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Bayonas
Lynnette Margaret Bayonas (11 April 1943 – 25 January 2010) was an Australian television producer and writer. Her sister was '' Neighbours'' executive producer Susan Bower. Personal life Bower was 18 years old and living in London when she got her breakthrough into television. She was an assistant to the general manager of The Australian Ballet who were then travelling through Europe and were due to travel on to the United States, somewhere that Bayonas didn't want to go. Whilst working in London, Bayonas heard of a job coming up with '' Citizen Kane'' creator Orson Welles. She agreed to meet Welles when he was making '' Casino Royale'' with Peter Sellers, Bayonas told him how she wasn't enjoying her job at the Australian Ballet and Welles invited her to Spain immediately. While working in Spain she met her future husband, Luis Bayonas, a writer, art director and assistant director. Career Bayonas' first job was taking notes for the film that Welles was working on at the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Barton
Patrick Barton is an Australian TV director best known for his productions in the 1960s. Select Credits *''You Can't Win 'Em All'' (1962) *''The Gioconda Smile'' (1963) *''Night Stop'' (1963) *''Double Yolk'' (1963) *''The Angry General'' (1964) *''The Sponge Room'' (1964) *''The Road'' (1964) *''Wind from the Icy Country'' (1964) *''A Provincial Lady'' (1964) *''Dangerous Corner'' (1965) *''A Time to Speak'' (1965) *''Cross of Gold'' (1965) *''Othello'' (1964) *'' Daphne Laureola'' (1965) *''Romanoff and Juliet'' (1965) *''Ashes to Ashes'' (1966) *''Waiting in the Wings'' (1965) *''Should the Woman Pay?'' (1966) *''Love and War'' (1967) *''Quality of Mercy'' (1975) *''Bellbird'' (TV series) References External links *Patrick Bartonat National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
