''Campaign for One''
Campaign for One is a 1965 Australian television film. A remake of an episode of the BBC series Wednesday Play, it aired in a 60-minute time-slot on ABC on 24 November 1965 as part of Wednesday Theatre.[1][2] It was not unheard of during the 1960s for British anthology episodes to be remade for Australian television.
It was based on a script by Anthony Church and Marielaine Double.
Plot
Set in 1967, an English astronaut is in orbit. After completing a spacewalk, he announces that he has no intentions to return to Earth, due to his wife leaving him, and would prefer to die in space.
Partial cast listing
- Stanley Walsh
- Michael Duffield
- Carl Bleazby
- Mark Albiston
- Edward Howell
Reception
Reception was mixed. Canberra Times called it "an undistinguished play" and said it had a "preposterous pommy script".[3] By comparison Australian Women's Weekly (see section Death Wish in Space) called it "one of the best local TV productions for ages" and said the spacewalk sequence was "most skillfully produced".[4]
See also
- Ending It – 1939 BBC TV short remade for ABC TV in 1957.
- Box for One – 1949 BBC TV drama remade for ABC TV in 1958
- List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)
References
- ↑ "A famous author lived near Canberra". The Canberra Times. 22 November 1965. p. 17. Retrieved 25 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "MONDAY". The Canberra Times. 40 (11, 319). 22 November 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 20 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105875003
- ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51190883
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