A series of television plays, based around the theme of 'love and war'. All of the self-contained episodes were produced at the ABC's Gore Hill studios by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.
Only those works by Australian script-writers are individually indexed on AustLit. The full list of episodes and broadcast dates is as follows:
1. Man of Destiny (George Bernard Shaw): 6 September 1967
2. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance (John Arden): 13 September 1967
3. O'Flaherty VC (George Bernard Shaw): 18 September 1967
4. The Brass Butterfly (William Golding): 27 September 1967
5. Intersection (Michael Boddy): 4 October 1967
6. Construction (John Croyston): 11 October 1967
7. Romeo and Juliet: 18 October 1967.
'Life in a country town can be restrictive of everything but the imagination. Mary, a simple enough girl, is yet sufficiently anxious about what love really means, to leave home and finances to come to the city for an answer.'
Source:
[Television guide], Canberra Times, 2 October 1967, p.15.
Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1967According to advertisements, 'Construction's theme is people's inability to communicate'.
Source:
[Advertisement], Canberra Times, 11 October 1967, p.24.
Sydney : ABC Television , 1967