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| released = 31 July 1963 (Sydney)<br>14 August 1963 (Melbourne)<ref name="age">{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eYUQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5219%2C576650|date=5 September 1963|page=10|title=First Perth-produced ABC play by J.B. Priestley}}</ref> |
| released = 25 June 1963 (Brisbane_<br>31 July 1963 (Sydney)<br>14 August 1963 (Melbourne)<ref name="age">{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eYUQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5219%2C576650|date=5 September 1963|page=10|title=First Perth-produced ABC play by J.B. Priestley}}</ref> |
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* Toby Harris as Arthur Jessup. |
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* Judith Stephenson as Florence Medway, a boarder |
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* Betty Ross as Violent Anderson, another boarder<ref>{{cite news|title=ABV – Channel 2|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GkYVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6506,1182400&hl=en|accessdate=23 October 2015|work=[[The Age]]|date=8 August 1963}}</ref> |
* Betty Ross as Violent Anderson, another boarder<ref>{{cite news|title=ABV – Channel 2|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GkYVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6506,1182400&hl=en|accessdate=23 October 2015|work=[[The Age]]|date=8 August 1963}}</ref> ==Production== |
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The production was shot at the studios of the ABQ in Toowong Brisbane. Designer Bernard Hides and his assistant Bill Collyer designed the set, which took three weeks to construct. This meant that for two nights the ABC news was read from the boarding house dining room that featured in the play.<ref name="times"/> |
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It was produced by Bob Cubbage who said "we chose a simple play to use as an exercise. We wanted to learn as much as we could from it."<ref name="times"/> |
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Don McTaggart was a Brisbane actor who mostly worked in radio. He had appeared in ''A Sleep of Prisoners''. Judith Stephenson and Betty Ross were experienced Brisbane stage actors.<ref name="times">{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Times|title=Our First Live Play|date=19 June 1963|page=8}}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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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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Revision as of 12:06, 17 September 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 | ABQ-2 (Brisbane) |
Release dates | 25 June 1963 (Brisbane_ 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
Ernie Pettifer, a carpenter, arrives at a boarding house run by Mrs Jessup and her husband Arthur. He falls in love with straightlaced teacher Florence Medway. Another boarder, Violet, is interested in Ernie,
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] ==Production==
The production was shot at the studios of the ABQ in Toowong Brisbane. Designer Bernard Hides and his assistant Bill Collyer designed the set, which took three weeks to construct. This meant that for two nights the ABC news was read from the boarding house dining room that featured in the play.[5]
It was produced by Bob Cubbage who said "we chose a simple play to use as an exercise. We wanted to learn as much as we could from it."[5]
Don McTaggart was a Brisbane actor who mostly worked in radio. He had appeared in A Sleep of Prisoners. Judith Stephenson and Betty Ross were experienced Brisbane stage actors.[5]
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "pleasantly amusing at best but also containing inconsistencies and some feeble touches."[6]
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.
- ^ a b c "Our First Live Play". TV Times. 19 June 1963. p. 8.
- ^ "Play on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 August 1963. p. 8.
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