Sixty Point Bold

Sixty Point Bold is a 1959 Australian television play which aired on ABC. It was produced by the Sydney station of the network, ABN-2, and was kinescoped/telerecorded for showing in Melbourne on ABV-2. It was the second 90-minute live television play produced by ABN.[1] It was written and produced by Royston Morley and aired July 16, 1959 for 90 minutes.[2][3] The archival status of the production is not known, given the wiping of the era.

Ad from SMH 14 Jul 1958

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

Plot

Set in a fictional South American country, it concerned a newspaper magnate Andre Charvet who clashes with the president of the nation, whose democratic government has replaced a dictatorship. Charveet brings a foreign correspondent called David back to the country to campaign against the President.

Cast
  • Kevin Brennan as Andre Charvet
  • James Condon as President Ortega de Riverda
  • Dinah Shearing as Maria Charvet
  • Bruce Beeby as Paul Crevel, Maria's lover
  • Harp McGuire as David, a foreign correspondent
  • Charles Tasman
  • John Alden.

Production

It was the third in a series of plays dealing with a man in political power.[5] Advertising called it "the story of political intrigue, violence and romance in a Latin America state".[6]

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

References
  1. "Live newspaper Play". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 July 1958.
  2. "Looking Ahead on Channel 2, ABN". ABC Weekly. 16 July 1959. p. 33.
  3. "All the TV Programmes". ABC Weekly. p. 16.
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. "Leading Cast for Play". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 June 1958. p. 5.
  6. "Advertising". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 July 1958. p. 9.


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