The Happy Journey is a 1963 Australian television play based on the Thornton Wilder play The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (1963).
It was the first Australian television play filmed in Hobart. The director was John Baldwin. [1]
The play had been filmed for British television and adapted for Australian radio in 1944. [2]
It aired in Hobart on 30 July 1963, Sydney on 19 August 1963 and Melbourne on 2 October 1963. [3]
Premise
Almost the entire play takes place during an automobile journey from Newark to Camden, New Jersey, by a family on their way to visit a married daughter, who has recently lost a baby in childbirth.
Cast
- Marcus Cooney
- Barbara Crompton
- Aileen Jenkins
- Patricia Owen
- Nigel Triffit
External links
References
- ^ [ABC Local Television Programmes publicity file] Drama: The Happy Journey [Drama. Item contains correspondence relating to the programme] [Box 52A] [2p] NAA: SP1011/1, 590
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (25 March 1944), "Coming on the air", ABC Weekly, retrieved 22 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Watch for these...". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 August 1963. p. 85.
Categories:
- 1963 Australian television plays
- Television plays filmed in Hobart
- 1963 television plays
- 1963 television films
- 1963 films
- Australian English-language television shows
- Black-and-white Australian television shows
- Australian live television shows
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
- Lost television episodes
- 1960s English-language films
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation television plays