form y separately published work icon Man in a Blue Vase single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 Man in a Blue Vase
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

A man's removal of his wife's housekeeping money from its blue vase causes conflict in both his marriage and his extended family.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Man in a Blue Vase Joy Hollyer , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1963 8131127 1963 single work radio play

A radio adaptation of Tom Kirkwood's television play about a man who incites conflict in his marriage by dipping into the housekeeping money.

Notes

  • Television play.
  • The Age published a series of photographs from the production: see 'Domestic Tiff–TV Comedy', The Age, 17 March 1960, p.14.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1960 .
      Extent: 60min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Shell Presents Melbourne Sydney : Nine Network Australian Television Network , 1959-1960 7187840 1959 series - publisher film/TV

      A loose anthology series, made in Sydney by ATN-7 and in Melbourne by GTV-9, and aired throughout 1959.

      As with many early Australian anthology series, the contents were a combination of locally written material and overseas works; in this case, however, local content made up 50% of the series.

Works about this Work

60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s Stephen Vagg , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 February 2019;
60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s Stephen Vagg , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 February 2019;
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