The Hungry Ones

The Hungry Ones was an Australian television mini-series. It was a period drama about a pair of husband and wife convicts trying to go straight, consisting of 10 30-minute black-and-white episodes, which aired on ABC. Unlike previous serials it was entirely taped and not done live.[2]

The Hungry Ones
Advertisement from The Age, 20 July 1963
GenreMini-series
Written byRex Rienits
Country of originAustralia
Original language(s)English language
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Producer(s)Colin Dean
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkAustralian Broadcasting Corporation
First shown in7 July 1963 (Sydney)[1]
21 July 1963 (Melbourne)

Notably, the cast included Leonard Teale and Fay Kelton. Also appearing were Edward Hepple, Nigel Lovell, John Ewart, and Brigid Lenihan.[3][4][5]

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[6] The archival status of the series is not known. It was among a series of four historical mini-series broadcast by ABC in the early 1960s, which had proved successful enough to encourage commercial broadcaster Seven Network to produce their own such series, Jonah, in 1962.[7]

Cast
  • Leonard Teale as Will Bryant
  • Fay Kelton as Mary Bryant
  • Edward Hepple as Governor Phillip
  • Nigel Lovell
  • John Ewart
  • Brigid Lenihan
  • James Elliott
  • Neil Fitzpatrick
  • John Gray
  • Ronald Morse
  • Stan Polonsky
  • John Unicomb

Production

Rex Rienits, who had written Stormy Petrel and The Outcasts but not Patriots. wrote episodes in London where he was living and sent them on.[1] Filming started June 1963 at Gore Hill.

Episodes
Ad from SMH 6 Jul 1963
  • Ep 1–7 July (Syd), 21 July (Melb) - meet the Bryants in Cornwall in 1784
  • Ep 2–14 July (Syd), 28 July (Melb) - "Bound for Botany Bay"
  • Ep 3–21 July (Syd), 4 Aug (Melb)
  • Ep 4–28 July (Syd), 11 Aug Melb)
  • Ep 5 - 4 Aug (Syd) 18 Aug (Melb) - "Days of Famine"
  • Ep 6 - 11 Aug (Syd) 25 Aug (Melb)
  • Ep 7 - 18 Aug (Syd) 1 Sept (Melb)
  • Ep 8 - 25 Aug (Syd) 8 Sept (Melb) - "The Escape"
  • Ep 9 - 1 Sept (Syd) 15 Sept (Melb)
  • Ep 10 - 8 Sept (Syd) 22 Sept (Melb) - final episode

Reception

An article in the 18 March 1964 edition of Australian Women's Weekly stated that the historical serials were "very good entertainment" with the exception of The Hungry Ones[8]

References
  1. "WEEKEND TV and RADIO". The Canberra Times. 37, (10, 581). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 6 July 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 16 July 2020 – via National Library of Australia.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. "Another Story from Our Early Days". The Age. 18 July 1963. p. 13.
  3. "WEEKEND TV and RADIO". The Canberra Times. 6 July 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 6 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ""THE HUNGRY ONES"". The Australian Women's Weekly. 10 July 1963. p. 17. Retrieved 6 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "WEEKEND TV and RADIO". The Canberra Times. 37 (10, 581). 6 July 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 21 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  7. http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=jonah%20Media%3A%22TELEVISION%22;querytype=;rec=5;resCount=10
  8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48077616


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