The Winds of Green Monday

The Winds of Green Monday was a 1965 Australian television play by Michael Noonan. It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre. It starred Terry Norris and was directed by Oscar Whitbread.[4][5]

"The Winds of Green Monday"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 30
Directed byOscar Whitbread
Teleplay byMichael Noonan
Original air dateAugust 4, 1965 (Sydney, Melbourne)[1][2]
Running time45 mins[3]

Plot

A crew deserts a ship to find their fortune in the 1850s goldfields and the captain must get them back.[6]

Cast
  • Keith Lee as Scottish captain McKendrick
  • Terry Norris as Mate Roberts
  • Jennifer Wright as music hall singer Martha
  • Martin Magee
  • George Whaley
  • Roly Barie
  • Nevil Thurgood
  • Tony MgGrath

Production

It was one of 20 TV plays produced by the ABC in 1964 (and one of only three Australian scripts).[7] It was filmed in Melbourne.[2]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald praised the performances of Lee and Wright as "professional" but complained about the "stiffness of the dialogue" and said "the direction of the crowds with their rhubarb-rhubarb voices and their tinned and infuriatingly phony laughter drove us for solace across the dial."[8]

British version

The play was adapted for British TV in 1965 starring Chips Rafferty.[9][10]

References
  1. "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 August 1965. p. 12.
  2. "TV Guide". The Age. 29 August 1965. p. 29.
  3. "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 August 1965. p. 12.
  4. "MONDAY". The Canberra Times. 39 (11, 223). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 2 August 1965. p. 2 (TELEVISION and radio GUIDE). Retrieved 20 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  6. "'Combat' private in a ballad". The Canberra Times. 39 (11, 223). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 2 August 1965. p. 1 (TELEVISION and radio GUIDE). Retrieved 28 February 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "ABC Plans to Show Significant Works". The Age. 20 February 1964. p. 13.
  8. "New Series are Unpredictable". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 August 1965. p. 8.
  9. http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8de465c4
  10. http://ctva.biz/UK/ITV/ITV_PlayOfTheWeek_11_%281965-66%29.htm


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