Quality of Mercy (TV series)

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Quality of Mercy
Genre Anthology series
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes7
Production
Producer Patrick Barton
Production company Australian Broadcasting Commission
Original release
Network ABC TV
Release4 June (1975-06-04) 
16 July 1975 (1975-07-16)
Related
The Seven Ages of Man

Quality of Mercy is a 1975 Australian TV series, which took the format of an anthology of television plays. [1] All the scripts were by female writers. [2] The series was commissioned by John Croyston, the head of ABC TV Drama, and was produced in Melbourne [1] and Sydney. [3] It was followed later in 1975 by a companion series, The Seven Ages of Man . [1]

Contents

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"Papa"Douglas Sharp Lynn Bayonas 4 June 1975 (1975-06-04) [4]
2"Sally Go Round the Moon"John Gauci [5] Judith Colquhoun11 June 1975 (1975-06-11) [6]
3"The Love Job"Keith WilkesMargaret Kelly18 June 1975 (1975-06-18) [7]
4"Send Him On His Way Rejoicing"David Zweck [8] Anne Brooksbank [8] 25 June 1975 (1975-06-25)
5"Kenny"Douglas Sharp [9] Sonia Borg [9] 2 July 1975 (1975-07-02) [9]
6"We Should Have Had a Uniform"John Gauci [10] Oriel Gray [10] 9 July 1975 (1975-07-09) [11]
7"Twice Blessed"Michael Ludbrook Barbara Vernon 16 July 1975 (1975-07-16)

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  10. 1 2 "Melbourne kidnap is play theme". The Age. Melbourne. 10 July 1975. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
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