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.[5][6]
"Campaign for One" | |
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Wednesday Theatre episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 |
Directed by | Brian Faull |
Teleplay by | Anthony Church Marielaine Double[1] |
Original air date | 24 November 1965 (Melbourne, Sydney)[2][3] |
Running time | 60 mins[4] |
It was not unheard of during the 1960s for British anthology episodes to be remade for Australian television. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[7]
Plot
Set in 1967, an English astronaut, Phil Osborne, is in orbit for the Allied Commission of German, English and American specialists. 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.[8]
Partial cast listing
- Stanley Walsh as Phil Osborne,
- Michael Duffield
- Carl Bleazby
- Mark Albiston
- Edward Howell
Production
It was shot in Melbourne.[9]
Reception
Reception was mixed. Canberra Times called it "an undistinguished play" and said it had a "preposterous pommy script".[10] 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".[11]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "brilliant" with "sustained tension, highly competent performances by a well-knit cast and whipped-up direction which left no one lime to wonder what lo do with his hands... a most exciting and professional job by any standards."<ref>Cotton, Leicester (26 November 1965). "Sustained tension in television play". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 11.</ref ==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== <references/>
External links
- "Eternal Orbit". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 November 1965. p. 14.
- "Studio Space Walk". The Age. 18 November 1965. p. 14.
- "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 November 1965. p. 15.
- "Television". The Age. 24 November 1965. p. 14.
- "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.
- Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- "Eternal orbit". Sydney Morning Herald. 22 November 1965. p. 13.
- "TV Guide". The Age. 18 November 1965. p. 36.
- http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105875003
- http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51190883