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"Course for Collision"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 13
Directed byOscar Whitbread
Teleplay byArthur Hailey
Original air dates5 April 1967 (Sydney)[1]
30 November 1966 (Melbourne)[2]
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Course for Collision is a 1966 Australian TV play.[3]

It aired as part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

Plot

In the near future, the US president faces a challenge.

Cast

  • Bill Yule as Major Hale
  • Carl Bleazby as the President
  • Keith Lee as Captain Shaw
  • Frank Wilson as General Patrick
  • Tim Evans
  • Mike Dyer
  • Jon Ewing
  • George Mallaby

Production

It was shot in Melbourne.

References

  1. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 April 1967. p. 19.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 24 November 1966. p. 39.
  3. ^ "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5". The Canberra Times. Vol. 41, no. 11, 653. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 3 April 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 23 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.