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Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
1962
Driscoll is an old boxer who finds himself a celebrity hero when he describes an old bout of his on a Sydney television station, much to the chagrin of his former opponent (who is now a Melbourne Governor), who decides to meet Driscoll and settle the matter once and for all.
After thankfully bidding goodbye to a clinging bore on a train journey, Charles realizes after, that there was something rather strange about him which was going to leave a deep, disturbing impression.
The shattered pieces of a plane crash lead to a trek across Europe and back again by suspicious investigators.
Arthur, a shy Cockney waiter is unlucky and clumsy in the pursuit of love on the dance floor, so he visits a marriage bureau who matches him with Jenny, a girl from the north who has just moved to London.
Two planes set off from London for the United Nations in New York. On board one of them is Lord Stapleton who is going to talk to the Russians in order to try an avoid a catastrophe. Meanwhile a newspaper office in London receives a call from a man who is about to die.
1964
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?
Based on the true story of the three week ordeal suffered by Scottish collier John Brown in 1845.
A study of racial tension as a corrupt Chief Inspector attempts to coerce a black suspect into confessing to a murder he did not commit.
Songwriter Eddie has a big problem - every time he submits a new song, he finds that someone else seems already to have written it. It's as if someone were reading his mind - but that's impossible, isn't it?
1963
1961
The Captain's transfer to a lonely outpost in Algeria may have appeared merely a routine posting to him. But dealing with the rebels forces him to face a problem he has shirked all his life: it forces him to face himself.
The title relates to the running time of the play, which is also the time span in which the drama takes place. Harry meets Sue at a night club and there is instant chemistry between them on the dance floor. After leaving separately, the self doubting, self critical Harry has one last chance as he meets Sue again at the train station.
Tom Cameron is found on the street dying from a gun shot wound, it would have been a routine column inch for newspaper reporter Mick Lambert, but he starts to get more involved as he discovers Cameron is from a good family but is also the suspect of a robbery involving just a pittance. A play that examines the increasing isolation in society and how everyone takes their piece from someone in trouble.
Teenagers are stealing cars just for joyriding. Their escapades with the cars become increasingly more daring until they are brought to the attention of the criminal fraternity.
Johnnie starts to question his world, whether its real or just a dream?
Mrs Dehoot and Mr Lott bump into each other in a cupboard, discover they both have to hide from the same person.
Philip quickly comes to regret volunteering to be a witness in a murder trial.
A crooked bank employee persuades a down and out, to be a substitute for a man who collects a quarter of a million pounds from the bank every Friday.
In order to survive, inhabitants from the future are playing havoc with the present day (1963). A pulse from the TV set puts the present day population into a trance, however this time a group of individuals are not affected, and begin to understand that the world maybe not of their making...
It tells the story of Xu Sanduo, an ordinary soldier born in the countryside, who did not abandon or give up, and finally became an outstanding scout.
Based on the BBC radio drama, "The University of Hunger," it tells the story of the harsh reality faced by three men after they break out of prison.
Peter Meinecke an insurance agent, has a state of the art computer for dealing with his policies. The computer alarms him when it detects that several claims are fraudulent and murder maybe involved.... it also predicts the next victim.
Jimmy Brewster just wants the best of everything. And he'll do anything - anything at all - to get it.
In Jan Carew's explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation.
An unexploded bomb is found near a hospital, but a man who knows the bomb model is reluctant to help.
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1965
Greatest Heroes of the Bible
1978
1966
An ex army officer is charmed by a young woman (herself the daughter of a soldier) into joining the 'ban the bomb' movement, much to the surprise of his family.
Orphaned as a child and living in digs all his life, shy Mr Irtin in his forties experiences late adolescent love for a typist at work, a girl young enough to be his daughter. It ends in tears for Mr Irtin.
