Director: | Patrick Barton Oscar Whitbread |
Country: | Australia |
Language: | English |
Num Episodes: | 6 |
Producer: | John Croyston |
Runtime: | 90 mins |
Channel: | ABC |
Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.[1]
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]
Date: 13 September 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.[6]
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.
Date: 20 September 1967
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 70 minutes.[7]
Date: 27 September 1967
Director: John Croyston
It ran for 90 minutes.[8]
In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.
Date: 4 October 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre, and ran for 65 minutes.[9] [10]
A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.
The Sydney Morning Herald said: "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."[11]
Date: 11 October 1967
Director: Storry Walton
See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)