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Dark Brown
Genrethriller
Based onplay by Philip Johnson
Directed byBob Cubbage
Wilf Buckler
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 mins
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release1963

Dark Brown is a 1963 Australian TV play. It was based on a British play that had been filmed by the ABC in 1957.

It was the second live drama recorded at the ABC in Brisbane, after Vacancy in Vaughan Street. It was shot at the ABC's studios in Toowong.[1] Australian drama was very rare at the time, and mostly made in Sydney and Melbourne.[2]

Plot

In 1880, Jenny Brown worries about the trips her tobacconist husband Arthur is making to Eastborne to visit his ailing aunt. There are also a series of unsolved murders. The aunt, Mrs Persephelous, visits Jenny.

Cast

Production

The sets were designed by Bernard Hides and Bill Collyer. They had to recreate the parlour at the back of Arthur's shop and decided to add the shop as well ti give the set better dimensions and to open out the play from its stage origins. The tobacco used was made of peat moss.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Careful with the aspidistra". TV Times. 6 November 1963. p. 6.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (February 18, 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.


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