Ring Out Wild Bells


Ring Out Wild Bells is a 1965 Australian television play which aired as part of Wednesday Theatre. It was based on a play by George Landen Dann. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.

Plot

Conflict emerges between a minister, Reverend Stephen Millcote, and race promoter Peter Lambert. Millcote is trying to conduct marriage services on Saturday afternoons while Lambert is running race meetings, complete with loudspeaker commentaries, from close by. Matters are complicated by the fact that Millcote's daughter is in love with Lambert's son.

Cast

It was based on the 1958 play by George Landen Dann. It was Dann's first play for Brisbane. It aired in Melbourne the same week as another Brisbane shot play, The Quiet Season.
It was filmed at the ABC's Brisbane studios in Toowong and broadcast in Brisbane.