Initial release 4 January 1957 | ||
Roundabout is a television movie, or rather a live television play, which aired on Australian television in 1957. Broadcast 4 January 1957 on ABC station ABV-2, it is notable as the first example of television drama produced in Melbourne Australia.
"Official" television broadcasting in the city had only begun two months earlier. Cast included British actor Patrick Horgan, Mary Ward and Beverley Dunn. The original TV listing in The Age newspaper described the plot as "a woman's reactions to her husband's suspected affair with another woman". Duration was 30 minutes. Production was by Bill Eldridge. It is not known if a kinescope recording was made of the broadcast. (note: kinescope recording, also known as telerecording, was an early method of recording live television, used in the days before video-tape became widespread). Some of ABV-2 other dramatic one-offs of 1957 were kinescoped so they could be shown in Sydney, but it is not known if any of these kinescopes still exist.