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1 form y separately published work icon Darlings of the Gods Roger Simpson , Graeme Farmer , ( dir. Catherine Millar ) Australia : Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier Thames Television Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1989 7369267 1989 series - publisher film/TV

'The story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, the 1948 Australian tour and their encounter with Australian actor, Peter Finch.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon The Mystery of the Amber Beads Owen Holder , ( dir. Don Leaver ) United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television ITV , 1973 9356572 1973 single work film/TV detective

Adaptation of the third chapter of Hume's work, 'The Second Customer and the Amber Beads'.

When a rich widow is strangled, her amber beads end up in a pawnshop run by a young Romani woman, Hagar, who has a talent for solving her customers' mysteries.

1 form y separately published work icon The Golden Road Patricia Hooker , ( dir. Douglas Camfield ) United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television ITV , 1973 7125881 1973 single work film/TV

The lives of the Hunter family are shaken up when they take in a young female lodger.

1 form y separately published work icon Simon Fenton's Story Patricia Hooker , ( dir. Darrol Blake ) United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television , 1973 7125814 1973 single work film/TV

'Is it mother love that makes Amy fight for her son's custody - or is it just a pawn?'

Source: BFI (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/347764). (Sighted: 13/3/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Armchair 30 United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television , 1973 7125696 1973 series - publisher film/TV

A short-lived anthology television series that aired on Thames Television in 1973. Related to Armchair Theatre.

1 form y separately published work icon The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television , 1971-1973 9356385 1971 series - publisher film/TV detective

Adaptations of short stories by detective stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporaries.

1 form y separately published work icon The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds Anthony Steven , ( dir. Kim Mills ) United Kingdom (UK) : Thames Television ITV , 1971 9356431 1971 single work film/TV crime

An adaptation of the first chapter of Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers, in which Simon Carne first robs the aristocracy (in this case, the Duchess of Wiltshire) and then impersonates a detective investigating the crime.

1 form y separately published work icon Thunder on the Snowy Peter Yeldham , ( dir. James Ormerod ) United Kingdom (UK) : ITV Thames Television , 1960 7943483 1960 single work film/TV

Musical set among the migrants working on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Yeldham notes on his website that

'Before I went to England I was a 23 year old radio writer concerned with shows like 'Nightbeat', 'Famous Trials' and a thriller called 'The Long Shadow', when out of the blue came an offer to write the script of a musical. It was to be a story of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and a convoy of cars containing production crew, technicians, director, composer and me; we drove to Cooma on the first stage – research for a musical about the greatest project since the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[...]

'Back in Sydney I started work on the script; the composer got busy, and then came the third calamity. The promised money to fund the show had fallen through. The musical about the Snowy was cancelled.

'When things like that happen in our business you shrug and get on with something else. Little did I realise at the time how valuable that few weeks of research would be. About six years later, now living in London, I was asked to write a television play for Armchair Theatre. I wrote 'Thunder on the Snowy' drawing on the miners and characters I’d met at Guthega.'

Source: http://www.peteryeldham.com/featured-book-tide/ (Sighted: 17/10/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Armchair Theatre 1956 United Kingdom (UK) : ITV Associated British Corporation Thames Television , 1956-1974 7125841 1956 series - publisher film/TV

British anthology television series.

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