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'Colin Phillips is a Rose Bay business executive. Turning 40, he reviews his life with dissatisfaction and recalls his youthful ambition to be a writer.'
Source:
[TV guide], Canberra Times, 26 August 1977, p.28. (View via Trove.)
Notes
Television play.
An obscure program, little information is now available outside contemporary television guides. It was advertised at the time as an Australian work (and had an Australian cast), though no information has so far been traced on either script-writer or director.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Series:form yStuart Wagstaff's World PlayhouseAustralia:Australian Broadcasting Commission,1977-198369939091977series - publisher film/TV
An anthology television series, in which British-born actor Stuart Wagstaff (who worked extensively as an actor in Australia) introduced a weekly telemovie.
As the title suggests, the telemovies were drawn from overseas (primarily Great Britain, as the list below indicates), but also included Australian-written works: the inaugural episode, for example, was written by Colin Free.
The quantity of Australian content fell away as the series continued, until by 1979 there was essentially no Australian content, the only exception being 1980 airing of an adaptation of Thomas Keneally's Gossip from the Forest, but the adaptation itself had been produced for British television originally.
For its last three years, the program was a series of re-runs of British programs (with occasional American or Canadian episodes), with no local content.
The episodes are listed below in running order (including Australian-written episodes), but only the Australian-written works are indexed.
