Love and War (Australian TV series)

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

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 (1967-09-06)

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.

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]

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

Plot

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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.

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O'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Premise

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In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.

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Intersection by Michael Boddy

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Date: 4 October 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre, and ran for 65 minutes.[9][10]

Plot

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

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Reception

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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

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Date: 11 October 1967
Director: Storry Walton

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)

References

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  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.
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