| Series: | Australian Plays |
| Season: | 1 |
| Episode: | 5 |
| Director: | Oscar Whitbread |
| Teleplay: | Oriel Gray |
| Length: | 70 mins |
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"The Torrents" is a 1969 Australian TV play based on the stage play by Oriel Gray. It was filmed as part of the ABC anthology drama series Australian Plays.[1] It was the second Gray play adapted by the ABC, after Burst of Summer.[2] It aired on 10 December 1969 in Sydney and Melbourne.[3]
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]
It was shot in Melbourne and at Maldon, a small town outside Bendigo.[5] It was designed by Alan Clarke. Railway carriages were hired from the Society of Railway Enthusiasts. The budget could not cover the hiring of an old locomotive so a modern one was used, but this was obscured by a fog machine.[6]
One critic called it "a beauty".[7]