Directed by Bill Eldridge Distributed by ABC Country Australia | Based on play by Aimée Stuart Running time 60 mins Initial release 17 July 1957 | |
Release date 17 July 1957 (Melbourne) (live)
15 November 1957 (Sydney) (taped) | ||
Fair Passenger is a 1957 Australian television film which aired on ABC. It was the first one-hour television drama produced in Melbourne, and aired there live on 17 July 1957. It was described as a "drama of mixed romances".
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Although it was kinescoped in order to be shown in Sydney, it is not known if the kinescope still exists. The UK version is lost.
Plot
Erica Tranmore is dissatisfied in her marriage with a quiet adoring husband. She goes to London on the pretext of visiting an old school friend, Meg, but actually to see an infatuated young man, Clive. She meets Rosemary, a young film star, at Meg's flat and sets out to captivate Meg's boss with a screen test.
Rosemary falls in love with Clive. Erica has an unsuccessful screen test and returns home.
Cast
Production
The show was based on a play by Aimee Stuart. It had been adapted for Australian radio in 1951 1952 and 1954 and for British TV in 1955 as part of anthology series London Playhouse.
The ABC had a site in the Melbourne suburb of Rippon Lea. However it did not have normal TV studio facilities yet so the production was filmed at a temporary studio at Coppin Hall.