Australian ''TV movies'' of 1959
by Thor-Delta | created - 02 Oct 2014 | updated - 11 May 2015 | PublicThe following is a list of "TV movies" (actually TV plays) produced for Australian TV in 1959. Most of these aired on ABC, some aired on ATN-7/GTV-9. Most were based on overseas stage plays.
See also: 1957 "TV Movies":
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1963:
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1. Act of Violence (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A drama set in an European country, which has endured war and revolution.
Director: Paul O'Loughlin | Stars: Owen Weingott, Joan Landor, Annette Andre, John Barnard
2. A Dead Secret (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Crime, Drama
A murder drama set in London in 1911.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Ken Goodlet, Bruce Archer, Elizabeth Wing, Carol Armstrong
3. Albert Herring (1959 TV Movie)
130 min | Music
Unable to find someone virtuous enough to be the May Queen, they instead decide to choose a May King.
Stars: Victor Franklin, Kathleen Goodall, Anne Levin, Lynette Martin
4. Antony and Cleopatra (1959 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor - Octavius.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Keith Eden, Bettine Kauffmann, Kevin Miles, Laurier Lange
5.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Tongue of Silver
(1959)
60 min
In an Irish village, the people are convinced that a visiting stranger is an emissary from heaven.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Alistair Duncan, Tom Farley, Nellie Lamport, Minnie Love
6.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
The Big Day
(1959)
60 min
A costing clerk's last day working in a city office in Melbourne prior to his retirement.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Edward Howell, Elizabeth Wing, Don Battye, Roslyn De Winter
7. Black Chiffon (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A respectable London family faces a predicament when the mother is charged with stealing a black chiffon dress.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Patricia Kennedy, Edward Howell, Frank Gatliff, Beverley Dunn
8. Black Limelight (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Crime, Drama
A live television drama set in England. A woman fights to clear her unfaithful husband of the suspicion of murdering his mistress.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Bruce Beeby, Patricia Kennedy, Diana Bell, Moira Carleton
9. Blue Murder (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A live television drama set in Sydney's North Shore, in which an aging actress is murdered.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Ric Hutton, Nancye Stewart, Derani Scarr, Colin Croft
10. Bodgie (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama
An insecure young man is drawn into crime.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: John Ewart, Lola Brooks, Douglas Kelly, Nigel Lovell
11. Cavalleria rusticana (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Music
Stars: Neil Easton, Alan Ferris, Heather McMillan, Florence Taylor
12. Crime Passionel (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A live television drama set in a fictional European country during World War Two.
Director: Royston Morley | Stars: Brian James, William Job, Jacqueline Kott, John Fegan
13. Dinner with the Family (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Live television play set in France. A man invites the woman he loves to a dinner party, and hires two actors to impersonate his parents.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Tony Brown, Joy Mitchell, Alan Tobin, Paul Bacon
14. Hamlet (1959 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama
Director: Royston Morley | Stars: William Job, Henry Gilbert, Georgie Sterling, Frank Taylor
15. Invitation to the Dance (1959 TV Movie)
45 min | Musical
A live presentation, aired in a 45-minute time-slot, featuring the ballets "The Snow Maiden" and "Love, The Magician".
Stars: Ruth Galene, Marilyn Jones, Eva Nadas, Kiril Vassilkovsky
16.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Johnny Belinda
(1959)
60 min
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Kathleen Gorham, James Condon, Robina Beard, Kevin Brennan
17. Lady in Danger (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Thriller
In this comedy-mystery, a woman sets out to write a thriller after her husband is sacked from his job.
Director: Colin Dean | Stars: Madi Hedd, James Condon, Queenie Ashton, Richard Perry
18. Misery Me (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
A young couple form a suicide pact, and then have trouble carrying it out.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Diana Davidson, Gordon Glenwright, Lionel Stevens, Barbara Eather
19. One Bright Day (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Joe McCormick, Georgie Sterling, Patricia Kerr, Kevin Sanders
20. One Morning Near Troodos (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A live television drama play, set in Cyprus.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Carol Armstrong, Edward Brayshaw, Syd Conabere, Lloyd Cunnington
21.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Other People's Houses
(1959)
60 min
A live television play set in middle-class America. An old man, who lives with his daughter, finds that he is no longer wanted.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Deryck Barnes, Coralie Neville, Diana Perryman, Fred Powell
22. Outpost (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, War
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Syd Conabere, Keith Eden, Paul Karo, Dennis Miller
23. Prima Donna (1959 TV Special)
60 min | Music
A live television presentation of Arthur Benjamin's rarely-performed opera.
Stars: Valda Bagnall, Rosalind Keene, Geoffrey Chard, Alan Ferris
24. Rita (1959 TV Movie)
54 min | Musical
In this opera, a "widowed" woman remarries and later finds out her first husband is still alive.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Rosalind Keene, Ereach Riley, Russell Smith, Joe Jenkins
25. The Seagull (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental ... See full summary »
Director: Royston Morley | Stars: Thelma Scott, William Job, Roderick Walker, Delia Williams
26. The Skin of Our Teeth (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Aileen Britton, Michael Charlton, Diana Davidson, John Ewart
27. The Soldier's Tale (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A live production of the well-known theatrical work "The Soldier's Tale", which mixes drama with dancing.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Edward Brayshaw, Robert Helpmann, Kevin McBeath, Heather McCrae
28. The Strong Are Lonely (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: John Alden, Ric Hutton, Peter Carver, Philip Colledge
29.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
They Were Big, They Were Blue, They Were Beautiful
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min
A live television play. In this comedy-drama, two people are released from prison, and inadvertently become involved in a baby kidnapping plot.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Fifi Banvard, Kevin Brennan, Diana Davidson, Stewart Ginn
30. Till Death Do Us Part (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A live television play set in Italy, about a man who falls in love with the wife of a gangster.
Director: Christopher Muir | Stars: Edward Brayshaw, Maree Tomasetti, Georgina Batterham, Syd Conabere
31.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Thunder of Silence
(1959)
60 min
A live television drama about a middle-aged couple in the American mid-west, who take in a refugee and his daughter.
Director: David Cahill | Stars: Margo Carrigan, Richard Davies, Marion Johns, John Llewellyn
32.
Shell Presents (1959–1960)
Episode:
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
(1959)
60 min
Live television drama set in a caravan park in the US.
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Michael Pate, George Fairfax, Paul Karo, Marjorie Archibald
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33. Treason (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, War
A live television drama about a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Director: William Sterling | Stars: Brian James, June Newton, Frank Gatliff, Frank Thring
34. Wuthering Heights (1959 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Director: Alan Burke | Stars: Lew Luton, Delia Williams, Annette Andre, David Bluford
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