Australian ''TV movies'' of 1960
by Thor-Delta | created - 10 May 2014 | updated - 29 Aug 2015 | PublicActually, for the most part they are live television plays rather than "TV movies".
Not sure how many of them still exist as kinescope recordings or early video-tape.
Many were performances of overseas stage plays, a few were versions of works originally written for overseas anthology series, but a few were locally written. The list is probably slightly incomplete.
See also:
1957 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359077/[/link]
1958 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359406/[/link]
1959 ''TV movies":
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077358429/[/link]
1961 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077000599/[/link]
1962 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077264166[/link]
1963 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077244792/[/link]
1964 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077463335/[/link]
1965 ''TV movies'':
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071084546/[/link]
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1. Close to the Roof (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A live television drama set in a Sydney suburb, in which two bank robbers hide in the attic of a house.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Josephine Dunphy, Stewart Ginn, Ron Haddrick, Edward Howell
2. Dark Under the Sun (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Problems arise when a half-aboriginal man falls in love with a white woman.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Edward Brayshaw, Elizabeth Goodman, Moira Carleton, James Lynch
3. Dock Brief (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Live television adaptation of the stage play, which aired in Sydney (presumably kinescoped for interstate broadcast).
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Reg Lye, Moray Powell
4. Eye of the Night (1960 TV Movie)
75 min | Thriller
Psycho-style story of a man dominated by his mother murdering people.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Brian James, Beverley Dunn, Dennis Miller, Nevil Thurgood
5. Farewell, Farewell, Eugene (1960 TV Movie)
75 min
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Letty Craydon, Dora Norris, Moya O'Sullivan, Phillip Ross
6. Heart Attack (1960 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Live television drama about an English doctor whose career is threatened by a blackmailer.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: John Morgan, Beverley Phillips, Edward Brayshaw, Wyn Roberts
7. Macbeth (II) (1960 TV Movie)
90 min
Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Ken Goodlet, Dinah Shearing, Keith Eden, Christine Hill
8.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Man in a Blue Vase
(1960)
60 min
A comedy, set in Melbourne, in which a man tries to prove his individuality.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Alan Hopgood, Coralie Neville, Sue Saffir, John Bluthal
9. Mine Own Executioner (1960 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Edward Brayshaw, Marcella Burgoyne, Brian James, June Newton
10.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
No Picnic Tomorrow
(1960)
60 min
A television play about a romance between an Australian woman and a man of Greek descent, but problems ensue when the parents of the latter bring in a bride from Greece for him.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Peter Aanensen, Bruce Archer, Marjorie Archibald, Carol Armstrong
11.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Reflections in Dark Glasses
(1960)
60 min
A woman searches for her son, who seems to have been taken away by the woman's husband.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Muriel Steinbeck, Eve Hardwicke, James Condon, Winifred Green
12.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
Shadow of a Pale Horse
(II) (1960)
60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
A story of a murder in the New South Wales outback and the resulting trial.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Brian James, Leonard Teale, Kurt Ludescher, Ben Gabriel
13. Swamp Creatures (1960 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Mystery
Caroline is the dominating elder sister to the frail and delicate Amy. Their world is turned upside down when Amy's son Christian returns home, having left many years earlier.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Graham Hill, Marion Johns, Jacqueline Kott, Lynne Murphy
14. The Astronauts (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A live television drama about four men training in Australia to become astronauts.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Tony Brown, Keith Eden, Anne Harvey, Collins Hilton
15.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
(1960)
82 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
A murder mystery - When a shark is captured, it throws up an identifiable human arm, with a tattoo. A local tycoon is arrested for murder.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Nigel Lovell, Lou Vernon, Jacqueline Kott, Ric Hutton
16. The Life and Death of King Richard II (1960 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Ric Hutton, Richard Parry, Hugh Stewart, James Condon
17. The Marriage of Figaro (1960 TV Movie)
120 min | Musical
Stars: Valda Bagnall, Geoffrey Chard, Heather McMillan, Russell Smith
18. The Medium (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Musical
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Margaret Winkler, Jon Dennis, Jane Ross, Neil Easton
19. The Scent of Fear (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
The story of a youth, escaping from police in his own country, hides in a plane to seek political asylum in the UK.
Director: James Upshaw | Stars: Diana Perryman, Eric Reiman, Max Meldrum, Owen Weingott
20. The Slaughter of St Theresa's Day (1960 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Neva Carr-Glynn, Frank Waters, Rod Milgate, Mary Mackay
21. The Square Ring (1960 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: John Fegan, Edward Hepple, Don Barkham, Guy Doleman
22.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
Thunder on Sycamore Street
(1960)
60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
Problems ensue when a man (who had previously been in jail for a traffic offense) moves into a house in a suburban street.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Frank Waters, Joe McCormick, Muriel Steinbeck, John Brunskill
23. Turning Point (1960 TV Movie)
75 min | Crime
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Rod Milgate, Benita Harvey, Ben Gabriel, Deryck Barnes
24. Uncle Martino (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
A comedy set in Italy, about an elderly uncle who visits his relatives.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Barbara Brandon, Moira Carleton, Don Crosby, Kira Daniels
25. Venus Observed (1960 TV Movie)
75 min
An aging duke decides to remarry and asks his son to select the wife for him.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Walter Sullivan, Rachel Lloyd, David Bluford, Jacqueline Kott
26. Who Killed Kovali? (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A tennis player is murdered at Wimbledon.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Keith Eden, Charles Sinclair, Mark Kelly, Alan Hopgood
27.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
You Too Can Have a Body
(1960)
90 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
Based on a stage play, this comedy has two scriptwriters staying in a haunted castle then getting caught up in murder too.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Bill Maynard, Mark Kelly, Diana Bell, Campbell Copelin
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