Starring Ric Hutton
Colin Croft Running time 60 mins Language English First episode date 1959 Produced by Raymond Menmuir | Production
company ABC Country Australia Initial release 1959 Screenplay George F. Kerr Written by George F. Kerr | |
Release date 2 December 1959 (Sydney (live)
25 February 1960 (Melbourne) (tape) | ||
Blue murder miniseries 1995 episode 1
Blue Murder is an Australian live television play which aired in 1959 on ABC. Broadcast live in Sydney on 2 December 1959, a kinescope ("telerecording") was made of the broadcast so it could be shown in Melbourne (it is not known if it was also shown on ABC's then-new stations in Adelaide and Brisbane). It was set in Sydney's North Shore.
Contents
- Blue murder miniseries 1995 episode 1
- Blue murder miniseries 1995 episode 2
- Plot
- Cast
- Reception
- References
It is not known if the kinescope recording still exists.
Blue murder miniseries 1995 episode 2
Plot
On Sydney's north shore, an ageing actress (Nancye Stewart) is killed by her bitter and untalented son (Ric Hutton). The son's girlfriend has a brother who is a theatre critic.
Cast
Reception
Sydney Morning Herald felt the plot was illogical, but also called it a "neatly constructed thriller, very competently produced" with "enough gloss on the writing and production to overcome any lingering questions raised by logic; and the play succeeded admirably on its own chosen level - it was craftsmanlike, thoroughly professional and pleasantly diverting."