Photo Finish (Wednesday Theatre)

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"Photo Finish"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 43
Directed by Oscar Whitbread
Teleplay by John Warwick
Based on Photo Finish
by Peter Ustinov
Original air date10 November 1965 (1965-11-10)
Running time60 mins [1] [2]
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"Photo Finish" is a 1965 Australian teleplay based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring. [3] [4] "Photo Finish" aired on 10 November 1965 in Melbourne and Sydney. [5] [6]

Contents

Thring played the role on stage the year before. [7]

It was part of Wednesday Theatre . [8] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. [9]

Plot

A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.

Cast

Production

A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year. [5]

Reception

The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue". [10]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "excellent". [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
  2. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 34.
  3. ↑ "Photo finish of an 80-year-old". The Canberra Times . Vol. 40, no. 11, 307. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 17. Retrieved 27 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "The Age - Google News Archive Search".
  5. 1 2 "Photo Finish with Frank Thring". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 14.
  6. ↑ "TV Guide". Sydney MOrning Herald. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
  7. ↑ "AusStage".
  8. ↑ "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times . Vol. 40, no. 11, 307. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 20 March 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  10. ↑ Monitor (13 November 1965). "What answers would you give?". The Age. p. 23.
  11. ↑ Cotton, Leicester (12 November 1965). "Resemblances in photo finish". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 11.


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