Photo_Finish_(Wednesday_Theatre)

Photo Finish (<i>Wednesday Theatre</i>)

Photo Finish (Wednesday Theatre)

43rd episode of the 1st season of Wednesday Theatre

"Photo Finish" is a 1965 Australian teleplay based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring.[3][4] "Photo Finish" aired on 10 November 1965 in Melbourne and Sydney.[5][6]

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Thring played the role on stage the year before.[7]

It was part of Wednesday Theatre.[8] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[9]

Plot

A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.

Cast

Production

A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year.[5]

Reception

The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue".[10]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "excellent".[11]

References

  1. [1]
    "TV Guide". The Age. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
  2. [2]
    "TV Guide". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 34.
  3. [3]
    "Photo finish of an 80-year-old". The Canberra Times. Vol. 40, no. 11, 307. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 17. Retrieved 27 February 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. [4]
    "The Age - Google News Archive Search".
  5. [5]
    "Photo Finish with Frank Thring". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 14.
  6. [6]
    "TV Guide". Sydney MOrning Herald. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
  7. [7]
    "AusStage".
  8. [8]
    "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 40, no. 11, 307. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 20 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. [9]
    Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  10. [10]
    Monitor (13 November 1965). "What answers would you give?". The Age. p. 23.
  11. [11]
    Cotton, Leicester (12 November 1965). "Resemblances in photo finish". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 11.


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