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Long Distance (The General Motors Hour)
"Long Distance" is a 1961 Australian television film. It was based on a 1948 American radio play, and retained the U.S. setting. It was among the first local drama productions by station HSV-7, and aired in a 30-minute time-slot. It was telecast on 8 June. An excerpt from it appeared in a 2006 documentary called ''Studio One'', suggesting ''Long Distance'' still exists despite the wiping of the era. The film was produced by British producer Peter Cotes and starred his wife, Joan Miller. It was recorded in March 1961 but its air date was pushed back to 8 June 1961, due to a talk by the Prime Minister. It was the only one of Cotes' Australian productions to air while he was in Australia; the others were not screened until the following year. Premise A woman's husband is to be executed. After finding proof that he is innocent, his wife tries to contact the judge, but only has 30 minutes to do so. Cast *Joan Miller as Anne Jacks *Mary Disney as chief telephone operator *Letty Craydon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The General Motors Hour
''The General Motors Hour'' was an Australian radio and television drama series. Radio The radio series was a regular one hour drama broadcast over the Macquarie Radio Network at 8 pm on Thursdays. It is believed to have commenced in the late 1940s and lasted into the early 1960s. Producers included Robert Peach and Harry Dearth. The announcer was John Dease. 15 episodes are available on the RadioEchoes website. Television The television version of The General Motors Hour was a loosely scheduled occasional series which aired on Australian television from 1960 to 1962. The series aired on ATN, ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV (Australian TV station), GTV-9 in Melbourne, as well as on other affiliated stations across Australia. The presentations ranged from adaptations of overseas stage plays and anthology episodes, to locally-written drama and a documentary. Its first show was a production of ''The Grey Nurse Said Nothing''. Three of the TV episodes - ''Suspect'', Candida (play), ''Candi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HSV (TV Station)
HSV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, its first and oldest station. It launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. HSV-7 is the home of Australian Football League, AFL coverage. The HSV building (also known as 'Broadcast Centre Melbourne') was the network's operations hub, where the Master Control Room was located, controlling all metropolitan and regional feeds. Its headquarters is next to Etihad Stadium (now Docklands Stadium, Marvel Stadium). Programming lineup, advertisement output, feed switching, time zone monitoring and national transmission output was previously delivered there. All Seven Network owned and operated studios had their live signals relayed there: for instance, ATN's output was fed to HSV and then transmitted via satellite or fibre optics to towers around metropolitan Sydney. In 2019 this function was transferred to a new cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cotes
Peter Cotes (19 March 1912 – 10 November 1998) was an English director, producer, actor, writer and production manager. Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. He was the original director of the world's longest-running production '' The Mousetrap'', still playing at the St Martins Theatre, London. He wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of Charlie Chaplin in 1951. Cotes travelled to Australia in 1961 to direct some television plays. He was fired during the filming of ''Bitter Harvest''. He was twice married: Myfanwy Jones (marriage annulled) and Joan Miller (widowed 1988). He died from natural causes in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Goodlet
Kenneth Edwin Goodlet (11 October 1921– 15 November 2006) was an Australian actor with extensive credits in film, radio, TV and theatre, known for ''Ned Kelly'', '' Bluey'' (1976) and '' The Long Arm'' (1970). Select credits *'' One Morning Near Troodos'' (1958) *'' Till Death Do Us Part'' (1959) *'' A Dead Secret'' (1959) as Frederick Dyson *''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1959) as Enobarus *'' Black Limelight'' (1959) *''Ned Kelly'' (1959) as Ned Kelly *'' The Square Ring'' (1960) as Sailor Johnson *''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day'' (1960) *''Macbeth'' (1960) as Macbeth *'' Long Distance'' (1961) as Warden *'' Quiet Night'' (1961) *'' The Big Deal'' (1961) as Julian Ring *'' Call Me a Liar'' (1961) as Mr Pheeming *''The Hobby Horse'' (1962) *'' The Patriots'' (1962) *'' The Criminals'' (1962) as Dorell *'' The Music Upstairs'' (1962) *'' The Coastwatchers'' (1962) as Don Marshall *'' Light Me a Lucifer'' (1962) as Harry Harmon *'' Calamity the Cow'' (1967) as Lefty * '' The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunney Brooke
Bunney Brooke (9 January 1925 – 2 April 2000), born as Dorothy Jean Cronin, was an Australian actress, creator, producer, director, designer, playwright and casting agent, best known for her being one of the early faces of Australian television. Known for her television, movie, theatre acting and comedy roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in the soap opera and movie release version of ''Number 96'' in the 1970s (a role for which she won a Silver Logie Award), and in her later years to a new generation of viewers in her role as Helen "Nell" Rickards in children's series ''Round the Twist'' (1989 and 1992) and her role as Violet "Vi" Patchett in '' E Street'' (1990). Personal life Brooke was born as Dorothy Jean Cronin on 9 January in 1925 Bendigo, Victoria, to Fred Cronin and Nellie Gorman and was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. She was raised by either by an aunt and uncle, As a young adult, she saw marriage as a means of escape, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Crosby
George Wallace Donald Crosby, Order of Australia, OAM (29 October 1924 – 3 December 1985) was an Australians, Australian actor of radio, stage, television and film, radio producer, stage manager, airman and trade unionist. Early life The fifth child of actor Marshall Crosby, Joseph Alexander (Marshall) Crosby and Theresa Crosby (formerly King), George Wallace Donald Crosby was named after his father's friend, the actor and comedian George Wallace (Australian comedian), George Stevenson Wallace. At the age of one, he was taken on stage by his father in a production of the operetta ''His Royal Highness''. At age 12, he started producing radio sketches at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC, then known as the Australian Broadcasting Commission). Career At age 12, Crosby started producing radio sketches at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC. After leaving school, he continued acting, while working in insurance. After World War II broke out, Crosby served as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Shand
Ronald Ernest McMurtry (3 February 1906, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia – 8 August 1993, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), professionally known as Ron Shand and earlier in his career billed as Ronnie McMurtry, was an Australian actor and comedian who worked extensively in numerously genres of the show business industry including, circus, soft shoe, theatre, cabaret, revue vaudeville, radio, television and film and was also a recording artist in a career spanning over 70 years. He started his career performing in circus and vaudeville, but was probably best known however in his later years for his role as Herb Evans the elderly hen-pecked husband of Dorrie Evans in television soap opera '' Number 96'' and at 65 was then the oldest member of the regular cast. He continued to appear in TV and film roles into his mid-80s and died in August 1993, aged 87."Giles, Nigel: Number 96, Australian Most Infamous Address" Biography Early life Shand came from a background in show busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of The Vine
"Shadow of the Vine" is a 1962 Australian television play adapted from a 1949 play by Beverley Nichols. It aired on 7 October 1962 in Sydney and Melbourne, and on 3 June 1962 in Brisbane and Adelaide. It was originally made for HSV-7 then presented as part of the '' General Motors Hour'' It was produced by Peter Cotes, who made four TV productions in Melbourne. ''Shadow of the Vine'' was the second one he made and the last one that aired. Cotes made it a year before it aired. Plot Mark Heath is a once brilliant lawyer who has become an alcoholic, affecting his two sons, Julian and Arthur. Only his wife Lilian remains loyal. Cast *W Edward Hodge as Mark Heath *Sophie Stewart as Lilian Heath *Mark Kelly as Arthur Heath *Edward Brayshaw as Julian Heath * Bettina Welch as Janet, Arthur's fiancee *Ellis Irving Edward William Ellis Irving (2 January 1902 – 27 March 1983) was an Australian film actor who appeared in a number of British films. He was married to the British stage an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shell Presents
''Shell Presents'' was an early attempt at Australian television drama, being an umbrella title for several different productions. It debuted on 4 April 1959, and aired on ATN, ATN-7 and GTV (Australia), GTV-9, who split production of plays for the series between them. It was an anthology series, each program being a self-contained play for television. The series won a Logie award in 1960 for ''TV Highlight of 1959''. As the title suggests, it was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, Shell. It was described as "a very big deal for the station: major institutional sponsorship from international companies for locally produced drama." It would be followed by ''The General Motors Hour''. Though it usually presented straight drama, it also presented a live musical production titled ''Pardon Miss Westcott'', set in colonial-era Australia. A total of 13 productions aired under the ''Shell Presents'' banner from 1959 to 1960. There is little information about this series online, however, som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Australian Television Plays
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-and-white Television Episodes
Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. However, there are exceptions to this rule, including black-and-white fine art photography, as well as many film motion pictures and art film(s). Early photographs in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries were often developed in black and white, as an alternative to sepia due to limitations in film available at the time. Black and white was also prevalent in early television broadcasts, which were displayed by changing the intensity of monochrome phosphurs on the inside of the screen, before the introduction of colour from the 1950s onwards. Black and white continues to be used in certain sections of the modern arts field, either stylistically or to invoke the perception of a histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Television Plays
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Finnair, Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the Captain (civil aviation), captain and First officer (civil aviation), first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
