| Series: | Wednesday Theatre |
| Season: | 2 |
| Episode: | 25 |
| Director: | Henri Safran |
| Teleplay: | play by Jean Anouilh |
| Length: | 75 mins[1] |
| Prev: | Vicky and the Sultan |
| Next: | Captain Carvallo |
"Point of Departure" is a 1966 Australian television film.[2] It screened as part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3] "Point of Departure" aired on 22 June 1966 in Sydney,[4] on 29 June 1966 in Melbourne,[5] [6] and on 27 July 1966 in Brisbane.[7]
It was one of three plays put on by the ABC to commemorate 2,500 years of Greek theatre.
A boy and a girl meet in a small provincial town at the beginning of German occupation in World War II.
Ross Thompson had previously been in The Pigeon for Australian Playhouse. He and Goddard had acted in a scene together in They're a Weird Mob. Point of Departure had a cast of fifteen.[7]
The Sydney Morning Herald write that Ross Thompson's "sensitive and convincing acting made the best of the obvious weaknesses in the plot itself."[8]
Filmink thought " maybe this is the sort of play that works best on stage, with its slightly fantastical nature and hopping around in time and place."[9]