Love and War (Australian TV series)


Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.
It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.

''[Man of Destiny]'' by [George Bernard Shaw]

Date 6 September 1967 as part of Wednesday Theatre. Produced by Patrick Barton. It went for 60 minutes.
The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963.

Cast

Date 13 September 1967. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.

Plot

An anti-war fanatic falls victim to anarchy of his own making. In England at the end of the 19th century a small group of soldiers, led by the ''hardest man in the line", goes to a strike bound mining town in the north of England.

Cast

It was shot in Sydney under the direction of John Croyston.

''L'Flaherty, VC'' by George Bernard Shaw

Date 20 September 1967. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre and went for 70 minutes.

Cast

Date 27 September 1967.

Cast

Date 4 October 1967 as part of Wednesday Theatre. Went for 65 minutes.

Plot

A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.

Cast

The Sydney Morning Herald said "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."

''Construction'' by John Croyston

Date 11 October 1967. Director: Storry Walton.

Cast

Date 18 October 1967. Directed by Oscar Whitbread, adapted by Alan Cole. It was the first Australian TV presentation of the pay and featured a cast of over fifty. "Using young actors makes the story more acceptable," said Whitbread. It ran for 100 mins.

Cast

The Age called it "a really splendid achievement."