Australian ''TV movies'' of 1965
by Thor-Delta | created - 21 Oct 2014 | updated - 24 Aug 2015 | PublicDrama and comedy "one-offs" produced for Australian television in 1965.
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1. The Winds of Green Monday (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
The story deals with a crew which deserts a ship to find a fortune on the New South Wales goldfields of the 1850s and the efforts of the captain to lure them back on board.
Director: Oscar Whitbread | Stars: Keith Lee, Terry Norris, Jennifer Wright, Roly Barlee
2. The Big Killing (1965 TV Movie)
70 min | Crime, Drama
A murder drama set in Sydney's Palm Beach.
Director: James Upshaw | Stars: Roger Climpson, Tommy Dysart, Betty Dyson, Stewart Ginn
3. The Affair (1965 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
A young Cambridge scientist, Donald Howard, introvert and unpopular, is accused of fraud and dismissed from his fellowship.
Director: Eric Tayler | Stars: Brian James, Richard Meikle, Anne Haddy, Ron Haddrick
4. Otherwise Engaged (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Henry has been busy with his business. After seeing what his family has become, he decides to take charge.
Director: Oscar Whitbread | Stars: Anne Charleston, Lloyd Cunnington, Michael Duffield, Jeffrey Hodgson
5. Macbeth (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
This is a different production teams' take on the 1960 Australian version using some of the same cast.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Wyn Roberts, Terri Aldred, Keith Eden, Keith Lee
6. Tartuffe (II) (1965 TV Movie)
75 min
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Ron Haddrick, Jennifer Wright, Doreen Warburton, John Gregg
7. The Sweet Sad Story of Elmo and Me (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
A satire on suburbia, materialism, education and television.
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Lynette Curran, Chuck Kehoe, Doreen Warburton, Max Brophy
8. A Time to Speak (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A drama set in a religious community in Australia during 1900. A doctor stands up to the corrupt elder.
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Raymond Westwell, Wyn Roberts, Keith Eden, Joan MacArthur
9. Dangerous Corner (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A family of four are affected in a big way by a suicide.
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Dorothy Bradley, Maxwell Jackson, Amanda Fox, Judith Arthy
10. Romanoff and Juliet (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A tiny, otherwise inconsequential and powerless European country called Concordia holds the deciding vote in a crucial United Nations resolution. As the U.S. and Soviet Union try to ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Raymond Westwell, Judith Arthy, Laurence Beck, Eric Reiman
11. Daphne Laureola (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
A modern comic version of the story of Daphne and Apollo.
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Terri Aldred, Mark Albiston, Raymond Westwell, Simon Chilvers
12. The Recruiting Officer (1965 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy
Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: John Meillon, Reg Livermore, Edward Hepple, Anna Volska
13. Othello (1964 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama, History, Romance
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Raymond Westwell, Keith Lee, Frances McDonald, Joan MacArthur
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14. Pagliacci (1958 TV Movie)
70 min | Music
Director: Peter Page | Stars: Ronald Dowd, Graeme Gorton, Jan Muzurus, Angela Shaw
15. Waiting in the Wings (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Judith Arthy, Moira Carleton, Louise Homfrey, Michael Howley
16. Campaign for One (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
An English astronaut in orbit, whose wife has left him, refuses to return to Earth.
Director: Brian Faull | Stars: Mark Albiston, Carl Bleazby, Michael Duffield, Edward Howell
17. Rusty Bugles (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Bored Australian soldiers while away the hours with nothing to do during the Second World War.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Graham Rouse, Stuart Finch, Kerry Francis, Robert McDarra
18. The Swagman (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Two people have plans to commit adultery, but their plans are ruined by the arrival of a swagman.
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Vincent Gil, Edward Hepple, Don Reid, Brenda Senders
19. The Tower (1964 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
In 1850s Hobart an Englishman tries to force his daughter's hand in a marriage of position, but her brother decides to intervene.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Keith Lee, Anne Charleston, Mary Ward, Judith Arthy
20. Cross of Gold (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Allen Bickford, Fay Kelton, Raymond Westwell, Christine Calcutt
21. Photo Finish (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
An elderly writer, near death, is visited by ghosts from his past, actually himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.
Director: Oscar Whitbread | Stars: Elspeth Ballantyne, Michael Duffield, Beverley Dunn, Norman Ettling
22. Write Me a Murder (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama
When two brothers inherit a fortune, one of them connives at murder.
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Rhod Walker, Alan Edwards, John Gray, Judith Fisher
23. The Quiet Season (1965 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama
Brisbane produced TV play set in an Australian seaside fishing town. A romance of a local shopkeeper and an off-season boarder.
Director: John Croyston | Stars: Reg Cameron, Elaine Cusick, Vic Hughes, Donald McTaggart
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