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2 Cast  





3 Production  





4 1963 Perth Version  



4.1  Cast  







5 See also  





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The Rose and Crown
Based onplay by J.B. Priestley
Directed byRaymond Menmuir
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release20 November 1956 (1956-11-20) (Sydney)[1]

The Rose and Crown is a 1956 Australian television play.[2]

Plot[edit]

The Rose and Crown is a London pub. Five regulars are confronted one evening by an unusual request from a stranger, the personification of death.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Priestley had written the piece specifically for television.[3]

It was broadcast live in Sydney.[4]

1963 Perth Version[edit]

The Rose and Crown
Based onplay by J.B. Priestley
Directed byBill Eldridge
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 mins
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release9 September 1963 (1963-09-09) (Melbourne, taped)
9 October 1963 (Sydney, taped)[5]

A version of the play was performed in Perth in 1963, the first television drama made in that city. It was broadcast in Melbourne on 9 September 1963.[6]

The producer was Bill Eldridge who described the play as "something between the kitchen sink and the twilight zone, one of Priestley's 'time' plays concerned with the reaction of ordinary people to an extraordinary situation."[7]

Cast[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "TV—Channel 2 ABN". ABC Weekly. 17 November 1956. p. 31.
  • ^ Ray Menmuir Obituary at Sydney Morning Herald
  • ^ "J.B Priestley's The Rose and Crown". www.birth-of-tv.org. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016.
  • ^ "Seen on channel 2—ABN". ABC Weekly. 17 November 1956. p. 19.
  • ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 7 October 1963. p. 21.
  • ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 5 September 1963. p. 35.
  • ^ "First Perth-produced ABC play by J.B. Priestley". The Age. 5 September 1963. p. 10.
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