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The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "pleasantly amusing at best but also containing inconsistencies and some feeble touches."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Play on TV|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=glMVAAAAIBAJ&pg=1583%2C49309|date=1 August 1963|page=8}}</ref> |
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "pleasantly amusing at best but also containing inconsistencies and some feeble touches."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Play on TV|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=glMVAAAAIBAJ&pg=1583%2C49309|date=1 August 1963|page=8}}</ref> |
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Other shows shot in Brisbane would include ''[[The Monkey Cage]]'', ''The Quiet Season'' and ''[[Ring Out Wild Bells]]''. |
Other shows shot in Brisbane would include ''[[The Monkey Cage]]'', ''The Quiet Season'' and ''[[Ring Out Wild Bells]]''. The was also ''The Absence of Mr Sugden'' in 1965 starring [[Edward Howell (actor)|Edward Howell]], Stanley Smith, John Nash, Reg Cameron, Vic Hughes and Don McTaggert, and ''Arabesque for Atoms'' (1965) which starred Phillip Colledge, Margret Milne and Alistair Smart. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 01:39, 7 August 2020
| Vacancy in Vaughn Street | |
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| Directed by | Wilf Buckler |
| Written by | George Landen Dann as "John Crane" |
| Produced by | Bob Cubbage Fred Haynes |
Production company | ABC |
| Distributed by | ABC |
Release dates | 31 July 1963 (Sydney) 14 August 1963 (Melbourne)[1] |
Running time | 30 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Vacancy in Vaughn Street is a 1963 Australian television short. It was the first television play produced in Brisbane.[2] and aired on Australian Broadcasting Commission.[3]
Plot
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Ernie Pettifer arrives at a boarding house run by Mrs Jessup. He falls in love with straightlaced teacher Florence Medway.
Cast
- Donald McTaggart as Ernie Pettifer
- Gwen Wheeler as Mrs Jessup
- Toby Harris as Arthur Jessup.
- Judith Stephenson as Florence Medway, a boarder
- Betty Ross as Violent Anderson, another boarder[4] Duration was 30 minutes.
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "pleasantly amusing at best but also containing inconsistencies and some feeble touches."[5]
Other shows shot in Brisbane would include The Monkey Cage, The Quiet Season and Ring Out Wild Bells. The was also The Absence of Mr Sugden in 1965 starring Edward Howell, Stanley Smith, John Nash, Reg Cameron, Vic Hughes and Don McTaggert, and Arabesque for Atoms (1965) which starred Phillip Colledge, Margret Milne and Alistair Smart.
See also
- Roundabout – First television drama short produced in Melbourne
- The Twelve Pound Look – First television drama short produced in Sydney
- The Rose and the Crown - first television drama short produced in Perth
References
- ^ "First Perth-produced ABC play by J.B. Priestley". The Age. 5 September 1963. p. 10.
- ^ "Brisbane's First Television Play". The Canberra Times. 31 July 1963. p. 33. Retrieved 23 October 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "ABV – Channel 2". The Age. 8 August 1963. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ "Play on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 August 1963. p. 8.
External links
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