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'''''In Writing''''' is a 1961 Australian television play by an Australian writer living in London, Raymond Bowers, and directed by Kevin Shine. It was broadcast on the ABC on June 7, 1961 in Sydney and on August 2 in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tKZVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hLoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3865%2C3993877|newspaper=The Age|title=Untitled|date=27 June 1961|page=12}}</ref> It aired in Brisbane on 6 May 1962. It went for 75 minutes.<ref name="times">{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Week|title=Salted with Strychnine|date=3 May 1962}}</ref>
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'''''In Writing''''' is a 1961 Australian television play by an Australian writer living in London, Raymond Bowers, and directed by Kevin Shine.


It was first presented on the BBC in London in 1956 and was also presented on stage and radio.<ref name="smh"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71788272 |title=BRITAIN'S AT HER GAYEST EVER! |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 December 1955 |accessdate=9 August 2020 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
It was first presented on the BBC in London in 1956 and was also presented on stage and radio.<ref name="smh"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71788272 |title=BRITAIN'S AT HER GAYEST EVER! |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |location=Victoria, Australia |date=24 December 1955 |accessdate=9 August 2020 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>


Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. <ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' is was "the story of an unusual murder in London involving a husband and wife, investigated in an unorthodox manner by Detective-Inspector Hurst."<ref name="smh">{{cite news|title="Live" Mystery Drama|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|page=11|date=June 5, 1961}}</ref> James Peebles has befriende John Clostin's wife and Clostin is unhappy with that.
According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' is was "the story of an unusual murder in London involving a husband and wife, investigated in an unorthodox manner by Detective-Inspector Hurst."<ref name="smh">{{cite news|title="Live" Mystery Drama|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|page=11|date=June 5, 1961|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/124031235/?terms=%22in%2Bwriting%22%2Bbowers}}</ref> James Peebles has befriended John Clostin's wife and Clostin is unhappy with that.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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==Production==
==Production==
It was Bowers' second script done for Australian TV the first being ''[[It's the Geography That Counts]]''.<ref name="times"/>
It was Bowers' second script done for Australian TV the first being ''[[It's the Geography That Counts]]''.<ref name="times"/>

The play was also performed on Australian radio in 1961.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122315987/?terms=%22in%2Bwriting%22%2Bbowers|newspaper=The Age|date=6 April 1961|page=22|title=Radio plays}}</ref>
==Reception==
==Reception==
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it an "unpretentious little suspense play which several times tripped over its own excess of ingenuity" and "suppressed far too many major facts to play fair with the audience."<ref>{{cite news|title=Mystery Play on TV|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=June 8, 1961|page=9}}</ref>
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it an "unpretentious little suspense play which several times tripped over its own excess of ingenuity" and "suppressed far too many major facts to play fair with the audience."<ref>{{cite news|title=Mystery Play on TV|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=June 8, 1961|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/124031480/?terms=%22kevin%2Bshine%22}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:31, 25 October 2020

In Writing
Based onplay by Raymond Bowers
Directed byKevin Shine
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time75 minutes.[3]
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release7 June 1961 (Sydney)
2 August 1961 (Melbourne)[1][2]
6 May 1962 (Brisbane)[3]

In Writing is a 1961 Australian television play by an Australian writer living in London, Raymond Bowers, and directed by Kevin Shine.

It was first presented on the BBC in London in 1956 and was also presented on stage and radio.[4][5]

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. [6]

Plot

According to the Sydney Morning Herald is was "the story of an unusual murder in London involving a husband and wife, investigated in an unorthodox manner by Detective-Inspector Hurst."[4] James Peebles has befriended John Clostin's wife and Clostin is unhappy with that.

Cast

Production

It was Bowers' second script done for Australian TV the first being It's the Geography That Counts.[3]

The play was also performed on Australian radio in 1961.[7]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald called it an "unpretentious little suspense play which several times tripped over its own excess of ingenuity" and "suppressed far too many major facts to play fair with the audience."[8]

References

  1. ^ "Untitled". The Age. 27 June 1961. p. 12.
  2. ^ "27 Jul 1961". The Age. p. 31.
  3. ^ a b c "Salted with Strychnine". TV Week. 3 May 1962.
  4. ^ a b ""Live" Mystery Drama". Sydney Morning Herald. 5 June 1961. p. 11.
  5. ^ "BRITAIN'S AT HER GAYEST EVER!". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 24 December 1955. p. 4. Retrieved 9 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  7. ^ "Radio plays". The Age. 6 April 1961. p. 22.
  8. ^ "Mystery Play on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 June 1961. p. 9.

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