Fair Passenger

Fair Passenger is a 1957 Australian television film which aired on ABC. It was the first one-hour television drama produced in Melbourne, and aired there live on 17 July 1957.[3][4]

Fair Passenger
Directed byBill Eldridge
Based onplay by Aimée Stuart
Distributed byABC
Release date
17 July 1957 (Melbourne) (live)
15 November 1957 (Sydney) (taped)[1][2]
Running time
60 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

It was described as a "drama of mixed romances".[5]

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[6] Although it was kinescoped in order to be shown in Sydney, it is not known if the kinescope still exists. The UK version is lost.[7]

Plot
The Age ad 17 July 1959

Erica Tranmore is dissatisfied in her marriage with a quiet adoring husband. She goes to London on the pretext of visiting an old school friend, Meg, but actually to see an infatuated young man, Clive. She meets Rosemary, a young film star, at Meg's flat and sets out to captivate Meg's boss with a screen test.

Rosemary falls in love with Clive. Erica has an unsuccessful screen test and returns home.

Cast

Production

The show was based on a play by Aimee Stuart. It had been adapted for Australian radio in 1951[9] 1952[10] and 1954[11] and for British TV in 1955 as part of anthology series London Playhouse.[12]

The ABC had a site in the Melbourne suburb of Rippon Lea. However it did not have normal TV studio facilities yet so the production was filmed at a temporary studio at Coppin Hall in Richmond. (The studio was used for a six month period from 1 July while the Rippon Lea studios were being built. Among the shows made there were variety shows, musicals and the Village Glee Club.)[4][13]

It was the first hour-long television drama broadcast in Melbourne. Marcia Hart, who was in the cast, had previously appeared in the first hour long television drama broadcast in Chicago (a production of Gaslight).[14]

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See also
  • List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)

References
  1. TV Guide Sydney Morning Herald 6 November 1957
  2. "LOOKING AHEAD ON CHANNEL 2 ABN". ABC Weekly. 13 November 1957.
  3. "Gaslight on TV with Melbourne Cast". The Age. 2 January 1958. p. 8.
  4. "ABV-2 To Make "Live" Drama History", The Age 11 July 1957
  5. TV Guide "The Age" 11 July 1957
  6. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  7. http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?episode=7618d4fa-6e95-4b7e-932b-240c57c0f027
  8. "From School Plays to Success on TV". The Age. 19 September 1958. p. 20.
  9. "SATURDAY, 9th June". The Age (29, 987). Victoria, Australia. 8 June 1951. p. 3 (THE AGE RADIO supplement). Retrieved 22 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ""Wings" To Broadcast". The Newcastle Sun (10, 690). New South Wales, Australia. 14 May 1952. p. 10. Retrieved 22 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. "PICK OF THE PROGRAMMES". Truth (3379). New South Wales, Australia. 31 October 1954. p. 54. Retrieved 22 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. Fair Passenger 1955 British TV version at IMDb
  13. "ABV-2 Shows Staged at Coppin Hall". 20 June 1957. p. 21.
  14. "Firsts". The Age. 17 July 1957. p. 2.


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