Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.
It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.
Contents
Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw
Date: 6 September 1967Producer: Patrick BartonIt aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 60 minutes.
The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963.
Cast
Brian Hannan - Napoleon Bonaparte
Anne Charleston - The Lady
Dennis Miller - The Lieutenant
Stanley Page - The Innkeeper
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden
Date: 13 September 1967Director: John CroystonIt aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.
Plot
An anti-war fanatic falls victim to anarchy of his own making. In England at the end of the 19th century a small group of soldiers, led by the hardest man in the line, goes to a strike bound mining town in the north of England.
Cast
Wynn Roberts as Sergeant Musgrave
Sean Scully
Richard Meikle
Edward Hepple
Michael Boddy
Don Crosby as Plonko
Neva Carr Glynn
Alice Fraser
Tom Oliver
O'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw
Date: 20 September 1967It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 70 minutes.
Cast
Edwin Hodgeman
Kerry McGuire
Moray Powell
Audrey Teasdale
The Brass Butterfly by William Golding
Date: 27 September 1967Director: John CroystonIt ran for 90 minutes.
Premise
In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.
Cast
Peter Collingwood as Emperor
Ron Graham
Sue Condon
Peter Rowley as Maximilus
Mark Albiston as Postumus
Alastair Duncan as Phanocles
Diana Ferris as Euphresne
Intersection by Michael Boddy
Date: 4 October 1967Director: John CroystonIt aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre, and ran for 65 minutes.
Plot
A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.
Cast
Helen Morse
John Gregg
Robert McDarra
Beryl Cheers
Slim De Grey
Frank Lloyd
Ben Gabriel as Fred
Kit Taylor as Matt
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald said: "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."
Construction by John Croyston
Date: 11 October 1967Director: Storry Walton
Cast
Ron Graham
Moya O'Sullivan
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)
Cast
Sean Scully as Romeo