"Photo Finish" | |
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Wednesday Theatre episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 43 |
Directed by | Oscar Whitbread |
Teleplay by | John Warwick |
Based on | Photo Finish by Peter Ustinov |
Original air date | 10 November 1965 |
Running time | 60 mins[1][2] |
"Photo Finish" is a 1965 Australian teleplay based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring.[3][4] "Photo Finish" aired on 10 November 1965 in Melbourne and Sydney.[5][6]
Thring played the role on stage the year before.[7]
It was part of Wednesday Theatre.[8] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[9]
A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.
A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year.[5]
The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue".[10]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "excellent".[11]