Australian ''TV movies'' of 1962
by Thor-Delta | created - 08 Oct 2014 | updated - 03 Oct 2015 | PublicThe following is an incomplete list of "TV movies" (for the most part, actually live TV plays) produced for Australian TV in 1962. Most of them were based on overseas works, but a few were locally-written.
See also:
1957 Australian "TV movies":
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077359077/[/link]
1958 Australian "TV movies":
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1959 Australian "TV movies":
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1960 Australian "TV movies":
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1961 Australian "TV movies":
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1963:
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1964:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls077463335/[/link]
1965:
[link]http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071084546/[/link]
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1. The Beach Inspector and the Mermaid (1962 TV Movie)
25 min
Ballet presentation. A rescued person at the beach is revealed to be a mermaid.
Stars: Diane de Vos, Alec Gilchrist, Lesley Hanson
2. Boy Round the Corner (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Set in a suburb in Sydney, a drama about a man who attempts to rob a taxi driver. The taxi crashes, killing the driver and injuring the man.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Annette Andre, Keith Eden, Roma Johnstone, Paul Karo
3.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
Candida
(1962)
90 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
A comedy about a woman who is married to Rev James Morrell.
Director: Peter Cotes | Stars: Joan Miller, Lewis Flander, William Hodge, Jeffrey Hodgson
4. The Case of Private Hamp (1962 TV Movie)
55 min | Drama, War
A drama about a court-martial of a deserter during world war one.
Director: Colin Dean | Stars: Edward Hepple, John Llewellyn, John Armstrong, Don Philps
5. The Criminals (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
In this television play set in London, four people find themselves in a situation from which they cannot escape.
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Alexander Archdale, Richard Davies, Ken Goodlet, Ken Hacker
6. Cup Fever (1962 TV Movie)
30 min
A ballet set during the 1890 Melbourne Cup.
Stars: William Carse, Suzanne Gooda, Bruce Morrow, Claire Smith
7. The Devil Makes Sunday (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A gaol-break on Norfolk Island in 1840.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Robert Peach, Syd Conabere, David Mitchell, Ron Finnell
8. The Devil Take Her (1962 TV Movie)
50 min | Musical
A live television opera about a poet who has a beautiful wife who is unable to speak.
Director: Robert L. Allnutt | Stars: Elizabeth Allen, Althea Bridges, Pamela Coleman, Robert Gard
9. Don Pasquale (I) (1962 TV Movie)
100 min | Musical
Stars: Peter Baillie, Alan Eddy, John Germain, Rosalind Keene
10. Fly by Night (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
A television play set around the dockside area of the Thames, a comedy about a retired couple who want to regain their youth and escape from respectability.
Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Sophie Stewart, Dorothy Dunckley, Michael Duffield, John Ewart
11. The Forbidden Rite (1962 TV Movie)
Drama
A ballet set among ancient temple ruins.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Victoria Biro, Laurence Bishop, Patrina Coates, Mary Duchesne
12. The Funnel Web (1962 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
A Canadian woman is searching for her husband, who deserted her. She finds him living in Sydney. He has defrauded his business partner.
Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Grant Taylor, Diana Davidson, Wendy Playfair, Alistair Duncan
13. Fury in Petticoats (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A period drama about a young South American girl who is taken to live in England.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Lola Brooks, Michael Duffield, Norman Kaye, Mark Kelly
14. The Good Oil (1962 TV Movie)
Musical
Coralie Condon wrote the musical comedy "The Good Oil" in 1958, inspired by the hysteria after oil was found in the North West of Western Australia (Australia). She produced it in 1965 for TVW-7.
Director: Max Bostock | Stars: Jill Perryman, Kevan Johnston, Margot Robertson, Vic Hawkins
Aired in Perth....I am glad to see someone is making pages for these old Perth shows.
15. The Hobby Horse (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A live television drama about rediscovered love in a grazing property in northern New South Wales.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Wyn Roberts, Lynne Flanagan, Ken Goodlet, Douglas Kelly
16. Jenny (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A 16 year old girl considers suicide because of her family being torn apart.
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Carolyn Keely, Joan Winchester, James Condon, Grant Taylor
17. Land of Smiles (1962 TV Movie)
105 min | Musical
A Sydney-produced production of Franz Lehar's operetta.
Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Valda Bagnall, Alistair Duncan, John Faasen, Joan Shute
18. Light me a Lucifer (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Satan's Australian agent suggests that Satan should visit Sydney.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Frank Thring, Ken Goodlet, Joan Harris, Edward Howell
19. Lola Montez (1962 TV Movie)
90 min | Musical
Celebrated courtesan and dancer Lola Montez visits Australia in 1855-1856.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Brigid Lenihan, Frank Wilson, John Rohan, Patsy Hemingway
20.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
Manhaul
(1962)
Documentary, Comedy, Crime
Tension mounts at a base in the Antarctic, and a man is murdered.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Wyn Roberts, Frederick Parslow, George Fairfax, Gordon Glenwright
21. Marriage Lines (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A woman who cannot hold a marriage down herself decides that others have no right to have a successful one.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Walter Sullivan, Patricia Kennedy, Mary Ward, Moira Carleton
22. The Music Upstairs (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
In this television play, three young doctors in London face a problem when they knock down a stranger while driving.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Felicity Young, Edward Brayshaw, Jeffrey Hodgson, Bill Bennett
23. Murder in the Cathedral (1962 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Wyn Roberts, Roly Barlee, Barbara Brandon, Edward Brayshaw
24. My Three Angels (1962 TV Movie)
75 min
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Gordon Chater, Richard Davies, Murray Rose, Laurier Lange
25.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
The One Day of the Year
(1962)
90 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
Celebrations of Anzac Day.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Syd Conabere, Stewart Weller, Stuart Weller, Dennis Miller
26. She'll Be Right (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Live television play. In a French mountain inn in 1962, an Englishman relates his WW2 story.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Frederick Parslow, Kevin Hanily, Mary Reynolds, Alan Hopgood
27.
The General Motors Hour (1960–1962)
Episode:
Suspect
(1962)
90 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime
A murder mystery - based on the The Sandyford murder case.
Director: Ian Jones | Stars: Kenneth Burgess, Moira Carleton, Michael Duffield, Patsy King
28. The Taming of the Shrew (1962 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Ron Haddrick, Brigid Lenihan, Noel Brophy, Jon Ewing
29. The Teeth of the Wind (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
An Australian officer in charge of a UN task force gets involved in political unrest in a newly independent African country.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Alan Hopgood, Roly Barlee, Keith Eden, Joan Harris
30. The Valley of Water (1962 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Director: Rex Heading | Stars: Hedley Cullen, Barrie McEwin, Myra Noblet, Jack Taggart
31. You Can't Win 'Em All (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A stranded man becomes in involved with some revolutionaries in South America.
Director: Patrick Barton | Stars: Syd Conabere, Alan Hopgood, Norman Kaye, Leon Lissek
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