The Hungry Ones

The Hungry Ones was an Australian television mini-series. It was a period drama about a pair of husband and wife convicts trying to go straight, consisting of 10 30-minute black-and-white episodes, which aired on ABC.[1]

The Hungry Ones
GenreMini-series
Written byRex Rienits
Country of originAustralia
Original language(s)English language
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Producer(s)Colin Dean
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkAustralian Broadcasting Corporation
First shown in1963

Notably, the cast included Leonard Teale and Fay Kelton. Also appearing were Edward Hepple, Nigel Lovell, John Ewart, and Brigid Lenihan.[2][3][4]

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[5] The archival status of the series is not known. It was among a series of four historical mini-series broadcast by ABC in the early 1960s, which had proved successful enough to encourage commercial broadcaster Seven Network to produce their own such series, Jonah, in 1962.[6]

Cast
  • Fay Kelton as Mary Bryant
  • Leonard Teale as Will Bryant
  • John Edwart
  • Brigid Lenihan
  • John Unicomb

Reception

An article in the 18 March 1964 edition of Australian Women's Weekly stated that the historical serials were "very good entertainment" with the exception of The Hungry Ones[7]

References
  1. "Another Story from Our Early Days". The Age. 18 July 1963. p. 13.
  2. "WEEKEND TV and RADIO". The Canberra Times. 6 July 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 6 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ""THE HUNGRY ONES"". The Australian Women's Weekly. 10 July 1963. p. 17. Retrieved 6 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "WEEKEND TV and RADIO". The Canberra Times. 37 (10, 581). 6 July 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 21 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  6. http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=jonah%20Media%3A%22TELEVISION%22;querytype=;rec=5;resCount=10
  7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48077616


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