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- 1 2 "Melbourne Hotel Film Scenes in "Live" TV Drama". The Age. 15 August 1957. p. 21.
- ↑ "Rugby Film School Adaptation on TV". The Age. 15 August 1957. p. 23.
- ↑ "All the TV Programmes". ABC Weekly. 18 September 1957. p. 34.
- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ↑ "Gaslight on TV with Melbourne Cast". The Age. 2 January 1958. p. 8.
- ↑ 1954 TV version at IMDb
- ↑ 1955 Film version at IMDb
