Misplaced Pages

The Wraith is a live television comedy play presented on Australian television in 1957. Broadcast on ABC, it was originally telecast in Sydney, and shown in Melbourne via a kinescope recording. It was made at a time when Australian drama was rare.

Duration was 30 minutes, in black and white. It was written by W. Graeme-Holder, and had previously been presented on radio during the 1930s. It is not known if the kinescope recording of the television version is still extant.

Premise

"The Wraith" is the name of a mysterious burglar.

Two gentlemen, John and James, are burgling the London flat of Madeleine Bloom, a wealthy actor. They are interrupted by a lady who accuses them of trespass.

Cast

• Leonard Bullen - John
• Normal Cull - James
• Joan Lord - Lady

Production

The play was based on a 1936 radio play that was often performed in the late 1930s. It had been performed on the BBC radio in 1939.

Joan Lord had been in earlier TV plays Twelve Pound Look and Elizabeth Refuses.

See also

• List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)
• Take That - First Australian television sitcom.

References

1. "Looking A head on Channel 2 (ABN)". ABC Weekly. 20 April 1957. p. 20.
2. ^ "Mystery-Comedy on Kinescope". The Age. 23 May 1957. p. 12.
3. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
4. "All the TV Programmes". ABC Weekly. 20 April 1957. p. 36.
5. "POLL RESULTS OVER AIR". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 16 October 1937. p. 21. Retrieved 18 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "5CL—411 Metres". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 20 October 1937. p. 20. Retrieved 18 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
7. The Wraith at BBC
8. Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. p. 41.

External links

• The Wraith at IMDb
• The Wraith at AustLit
• 1936 radio play at AustLit
• W Graeme-Holder at AustLit

This article related to an Australian made-for-TV movie is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1950s Australian television plays
• 1957 television plays
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
• Australian English-language television shows
• Black-and-white Australian television shows
• Australian live television shows
• Australian television film stubs