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Quiet Night
Produced byChristopher Muir
Production
company
Release date
28 June 1961 (Melbourne)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Quiet Night is an Australian television play which aired in 1961 on ABC. Originally broadcast live in Melbourne on 28 June 1961, it was recorded and also shown in Sydney (it is not known if it was also shown on ABC's stations in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth). A 60-minute drama, it was written by Dorothy Blewett and was directed by Christopher Muir.

It was based on Blewett's 1941 play.

It was set in a Melbourne hospital.[1]

Plot

Doctors and nurses try to save the life of a 20-year-old. During the night the nurses have their own personal dramas.

Cast

  • Paul Karo
  • Mary Disney
  • Mark Kelly
  • Sonia Borg
  • Nancy Cato
  • Mary Mackay
  • Elizabeth Goodman
  • Fay Kelton
  • Elizabeth Wing
  • Natalie Raine
  • Michael Duffield
  • Betty Eames
  • Charles Sinclair
  • Graham Hughes
  • Ken Goodlet
  • Norman Brown
  • Lyndel Rowe
  • Agnes Dobson
  • Leon Lissek

Production

Blewett and Muir had previously collaborated on The First Joanna.

References