Photo Finish (Wednesday Theatre)

43rd episode of the 1st season of Wednesday Theatre

"Photo Finish"

Wednesday Theatre episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 43

Directed by

Oscar Whitbread

Teleplay by

John Warwick

Based on

Photo Finish
by Peter Ustinov

Original air date

10 November 1965 (1965-11-10)

Running time

60 mins

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"Photo Finish" is a 1965 Australian teleplay based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring. "Photo Finish" aired on 10 November 1965 in Melbourne and Sydney.

Thring played the role on stage the year before.

It was part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.

Plot

A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.

Cast

Frank Thring as Sam Kinsale, aged 80
Elspeth Ballantyne
Michael Duffield as the father
Beverley Dunn as the mother
Norman Ettling as the 40 year old
Patricia Kennedy as Stella, the wife
Patsy King
Stanley Walsh as the 20 year old
Raymond Westwell as the 60 year old

Production

A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year.

Reception

The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue".

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "excellent".

References

"TV Guide". The Age. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
"TV Guide". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 34.
"Photo finish of an 80-year-old". The Canberra Times. Vol. 40, no. 11, 307. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 17. Retrieved 27 February 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
"The Age - Google News Archive Search".
^ "Photo Finish with Frank Thring". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 14.
"TV Guide". Sydney MOrning Herald. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
"AusStage".
"WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 40, no. 11, 307. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 20 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
Monitor (13 November 1965). "What answers would you give?". The Age. p. 23.
Cotton, Leicester (12 November 1965). "Resemblances in photo finish". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 11.

External links

"Photo Finish" at IMDb

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