Crisis (1963 TV play) explained

Genre:Drama
Director:Gavin Kelly
Country:Australia
Language:English
Producer:Dennis Lane
Location:Brisbane
Company:Christian Television Association
Network:QTQ9

Crisis is a 1963 Australian television play filmed in Brisbane made by the Christian Television Association. The cast included thirty volunteers from Sandcliffe Little Theatre and the Redcliff Music and Arts Society. Equipment was donanted by Brisbane General Hospital, the Red Cross and the Post Office.[1]

The play was a rare television drama filmed in Brisbane at the time. It may be the first drama made by Brisbane commercial stations in the 1960s, although the ABC produced several including Vacancy in Vaughan Street and Ring Out Wild Bells.[2] [3] There was another play on a commercial station, Dear Edgar.[4]

The play featured an early performance from Gerard Kennedy.

Premise

A man's wife goes to hospital and the man cannot accept it is serious.

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Crisis. TV Week Qld. 14 October 1963. 34.
  2. Oh Those bells. TV Times. 4 November 1964. 12.
  3. New ABC-TV Play. TV Week Qld. 7 November 1964. 25.
  4. Dear Edgar. TV Week Qld. 19 October 1963. 24–25.