Series: | Wednesday Theatre |
Season: | 1 |
Episode: | 43 |
Director: | Oscar Whitbread |
Teleplay: | John Warwick |
Length: | 60 mins[1] [2] |
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Next: | The Casualties |
"Photo Finish" is a 1965 Australian teleplay based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring.[3] [4] "Photo Finish" aired on 10 November 1965 in Melbourne and Sydney.[5] [6]
Thring played the role on stage the year before.[7]
It was part of Wednesday Theatre.[8] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[9]
A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.
A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year.[5]
The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue".[10]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "excellent".[11]