Queen Versus Bent

Last updated

"Queen Versus Bent"
Consider Your Verdict episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 81
Original air date9 September 1962 (1962-09-09)
Running time60 mins

"Queen Versus Bent" is an episode of the Australian television series Consider Your Verdict . It is notable for featuring Aboriginal actor Harold Blair. [1] "Queen Versus Bent" aired on 9 September 1962 in Sydney, [2] and on 16 September 1962 in Melbourne. [3]

Contents

Plot

Tommy Bent, an Aboriginal stockman, is charged with shooting the boss's nephew Graham.

Cast

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harold Blair</span> Australian politician

Harold Blair was an Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist. He has been called the "last great Australian tenor of the concert hall era".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheila Florance</span> Australian actress (1916–1991)

Sheila Mary Florance was an Australian theatre, television and film actress. She was best known for her performance as elderly, alcoholic convict Lizzie Birdsworth in the television series Prisoner.

Reg Gorman was an Australian television and film actor, and comedian, he was known best for his role in TV serial The Sullivans, as Jack Fletcher. and children's series Fergus McPhail as Harry Patterson.

Consider Your Verdict is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in Melbourne from 1958 to 1960.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Turpie</span> Australian media performer

Ian Bruce Turpie, sometimes referred to as Turps, was an Australian performer, actor, pop singer and presenter. He was the host of the teen pop music TV show, The Go!! Show (1965–66) and various TV game shows, The Price Is Right, and Supermarket Sweep (1992–1994). As a TV actor he portrayed Keith Warne on Swift and Shift Couriers and Wazza and Narrator in Housos (2011). He was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2011 and died in the following year, aged 68.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aboriginal breastplate</span> Form of regalia used in pre-Federation Australia

Aboriginal breastplates were a form of regalia used in pre-Federation Australia by white colonial authorities to recognise those they perceived to be local Aboriginal leaders. The breastplates were usually metallic crescent-shaped plaques worn around the neck by wearer.

ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV.

Brian Gregory Syron was an actor, teacher, Aboriginal rights activist, stage director and Australia's first Indigenous feature film director, who has also been recognised as the first First Nations feature film director. After studying in New York City under Stella Adler, he returned to Australia and was a co-founder of the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the Eora Centre, the National Black Playwrights Conference, and the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust. He worked on several television productions and was appointed head of the ABC's new Aboriginal unit in 1988.

The 4th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Saturday 31 March 1962 at the Chevron Hotel on St Kilda Road, Melbourne. The awards presentation was telecast live in a half-hour broadcast on ABV-2,, with delayed transmission on ABC stations in other cities over the following days. Gerald Lyons from the ABC was the Master of Ceremonies. Game show host Bob Dyer was on hand to present awards. Winning the Gold Logie was a joint honour that year with entertainer Tommy Hanlon Jr and variety host Lorrae Desmond, winning the coveted award, in doing so, Desmond was the first woman on Australian television to win the Gold.

<i>The Timeless Land</i> Novel by Eleanor Dark

The Timeless Land (1941) is a work of historical fiction by Eleanor Dark (1901–1985). The novel The Timeless Land is the first of The Timeless Land trilogy of novels about European settlement and exploration of Australia.

<i>Killer in Close-Up</i> 1957 Australian television film

Killer in Close-Up was a blanket title covering four live television drama plays produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1957 and 1958. It could be seen as the first anthology series produced for Australian television.

<i>The Sergeant from Burralee</i> 1961Australian television play

The Sergeant from Burralee is an Australian television play written by Phillip Grenville Mann. The play was also broadcast by the BBC and screened for West German television.

Traveller Without Luggage is a 1961 Australian television film directed by Henri Safran and starring Ric Hutton. It was Safran's first English language work.

Burst of Summer is a 1959 play by Oriel Gray. It won the 1959 J. C. Williamson's Little Theatre Guild Award, and was later adapted for radio and TV. It was Gray's last produced play.

The Rose and Crown is a 1956 Australian television play.

<i>The Merchant of Venice</i> (1961 film) 1961 film by Alan Burke

The Merchant of Venice is a 1961 Australian television adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare.

Julianna Allan was an Australian actress. She played an Aboriginal girl in Wandjina! (1966).

<i>The Devil Makes Sunday</i> (1962 film) 1962 Australian TV series or program

The Devil Makes Sunday is a 1962 Australian television play by New Zealand -born author Bruce Stewart. It was broadcast live from Melbourne, and taped and shown in other cities at a later date.

Alice in Wonderland is a 1962 Australian television film based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was a pantomime and aired as part of the BP Super Show.

References

  1. Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian television
  2. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 September 1962. p. 99.
  3. "TV Guide". The Age. 13 September 1962. p. 31.