Australian ''TV movies'' of 1959
The following is a list of "TV movies" (actually TV plays) produced for Australian TV in 1959. Most of these aired on ABC, some aired on ATN-7/GTV-9. Most were based on overseas stage plays.
See also: 1957 "TV Movies":
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1958 "TV movies":
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1959:
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1960:
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1961:
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1962:
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1963:
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1964:
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1965:
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See also: 1957 "TV Movies":
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359406[/link]
1958 "TV movies":
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359406/[/link]
1959:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077358429/[/link]
1960:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058930980/[/link]
1961:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077000599/[/link]
1962:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077264166/[/link]
1963:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077244792/[/link]
1964:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077463335/[/link]
1965:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071084546/[/link]
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- DirectorPaul O'LoughlinStarsOwen WeingottJoan LandorAnnette AndreA drama set in an European country, which has endured war and revolution.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsKen GoodletBruce ArcherElizabeth WingA murder drama set in London in 1911.
- StarsVictor FranklinKathleen GoodallAnne LevinUnable to find someone virtuous enough to be the May Queen, they instead decide to choose a May King.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsKeith EdenBettine KauffmannKevin MilesAfter the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor - Octavius.
- DirectorDavid CahillStarsMinnie LoveMary MackayTom FarleyIn an Irish village, the people are convinced that a visiting stranger is an emissary from heaven.
- DirectorRod KinnearStarsEdward HowellElizabeth WingDon BattyeA costing clerk's last day working in a city office in Melbourne prior to his retirement.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsPatricia KennedyEdward HowellFrank GatliffA respectable London family faces a predicament when the mother is charged with stealing a black chiffon dress.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsBruce BeebyPatricia KennedyDiana BellA live television drama set in England. A woman fights to clear her unfaithful husband of the suspicion of murdering his mistress.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsRic HuttonNancye StewartDerani ScarrA live television drama set in Sydney's North Shore, in which an aging actress is murdered.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsJohn EwartLola BrooksDouglas KellyAn insecure young man is drawn into crime.
- DirectorRoyston MorleyStarsBrian JamesWilliam JobJacqueline KottA live television drama set in a fictional European country during World War Two.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsTony BrownJoy MitchellAlan TobinLive television play set in France. A man invites the woman he loves to a dinner party, and hires two actors to impersonate his parents.
- StarsRuth GaleneMarilyn JonesEva NadasA live presentation, aired in a 45-minute time-slot, featuring the ballets "The Snow Maiden" and "Love, The Magician".
- DirectorDavid CahillStarsKathleen GorhamJames CondonRobina BeardIn post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
- DirectorColin DeanStarsMadi HeddJames CondonQueenie AshtonIn this comedy-mystery, a woman sets out to write a thriller after her husband is sacked from his job.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsDiana DavidsonGordon GlenwrightLionel StevensA young couple form a suicide pact, and then have trouble carrying it out.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsCarol ArmstrongEdward BrayshawSyd ConabereA live television drama play, set in Cyprus.
- DirectorDavid CahillStarsDiana PerrymanLou VernonCoralie NevilleA live television play set in middle-class America. An old man, who lives with his daughter, finds that he is no longer wanted.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsSyd ConabereKeith EdenPaul Karo
- StarsValda BagnallRosalind KeeneGeoffrey ChardA live television presentation of Arthur Benjamin's rarely-performed opera.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsRosalind KeeneEreach RileyRussell SmithIn this opera, a "widowed" woman remarries and later finds out her first husband is still alive.
- DirectorRoyston MorleyStarsThelma ScottWilliam JobRoderick WalkerThis quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsAileen BrittonMichael CharltonDiana DavidsonProduction of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age - the Antrobus family pets being dinosaurs; and having characters speaking directly to the audience and criticizing the way their own dialogue was written.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsEdward BrayshawRobert HelpmannKevin McBeathA live production of the well-known theatrical work "The Soldier's Tale", which mixes drama with dancing.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsJohn AldenRic HuttonPeter Carver
- 1959–19601hTV-PGTV EpisodeDirectorDavid CahillStarsFifi BanvardKevin BrennanDiana DavidsonA live television play. In this comedy-drama, two people are released from prison, and inadvertently become involved in a baby kidnapping plot.
- DirectorChristopher MuirStarsEdward BrayshawMaree TomasettiGeorgina BatterhamA live television play set in Italy, about a man who falls in love with the wife of a gangster.
- DirectorDavid CahillStarsMargo CarriganRichard DaviesMarion JohnsA live television drama about a middle-aged couple in the American mid-west, who take in a refugee and his daughter.
- DirectorRod KinnearStarsMichael PateGeorge FairfaxPaul KaroLive television drama set in a caravan park in the US.
- DirectorWilliam SterlingStarsBrian JamesJune NewtonFrank GatliffA live television drama about a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- DirectorAlan BurkeStarsLew LutonDelia WilliamsAnnette AndreMistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.