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*Love and War*
Love and War
Directed by	Patrick Barton; Oscar Whitbread
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	John Croyston
Running time	90 mins
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	6 September –; 11 October 1967

Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.^[1]

It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.

Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw

Date: 6 September 1967
Producer: Patrick Barton
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 60 minutes.^[2]^[3]

The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963.^[4]

Cast

Brian Hannan - Napoleon Bonaparte
Anne Charleston - The Lady
Dennis Miller - The Lieutenant
Stanley Page - The Innkeeper^[5]

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden

Date: 13 September 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.^[6]

Plot

An anti-war fanatic falls victim to anarchy of his own making. In England at the end of the 19th century a small group of soldiers, led by the hardest man in the line, goes to a strike bound mining town in the north of England.

Cast

O'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw

Date: 20 September 1967
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 70 minutes.^[7]

Cast

Edwin Hodgeman
Kerry McGuire
Moray Powell
Audrey Teasdale

The Brass Butterfly by William Golding

Date: 27 September 1967
Director: John Croyston
It ran for 90 minutes.^[8]

Premise

In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.

Cast

Peter Collingwood - Emperor
Ron Graham
Sue Condon
Peter Rowley - Maximilus
Mark Albiston - Postumus
Alistair Duncan - Scientist
Diana Ferris - Euphresne

Intersection by Michael Boddy

Date: 4 October 1967
Director: John Croyston
It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre, and ran for 65 minutes.^[9]^[10]

Plot

A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.

Cast

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said: "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."^[11]

Construction by John Croyston

Date: 11 October 1967
Director: Storry Walton

Cast

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)

References

^ "Plays with themes of love and war". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 784. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 September 1967. p. 16.
^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 September 1967. p. 13.
^ Vagg, Stephen (4 October 2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: Point of Departure and Man of Destiny". Filmink. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
^ "WEDNESDAY I". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 784. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 September 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 13 September 1967. p. 14.
^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 September 1967. p. 25.
^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 25 September 1967. p. 13.
^ "TELEVISION A night of free TV". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 815. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 October 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 23 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 October 1967. p. 16.
^ "ON TELEVISION It's tough for TV writers". Sydney Morning Herald. 5 October 1967. p. 11.
^ "LEISURE THE ARTS". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 816. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 October 1967. p. 24. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.