The Big Client is a 1961 Australian television play. It was directed by James Upshaw. It screened "live" on the ABC on 19 July 1961 and was recorded in Sydney^[1]

Plot

Henderson is an American millionaire launching a brand of tranquilisers. Fred Cooper, head of a London advertising firm, tries to get Henderson to sign with them.

Cast

• James Condon as Henderson
• Deryck Barnes
• Noel Brophy
• Keith Buckley
• Alistair Duncan as a copywriter
• Ric Hutton
• Barry Linehan as Fred Cooper
• Coralie Neville
• Pamela Page as girl from rival firm
• Diana Perryman

Reception

The TV critic from the Sydney Morning Herald thought aAn advertising _executive would have.been hard put to clarify the curious dramatic direction—embracing shifts of meaning and emphasis" in the play, adding "it was a fault of the play_, not, generally speaking, of the actors or of James Upshaw's compact though not very imaginative production."^[2]

SMOOTH

James Condon, as the millionaire, was exceedingly smooth, although he may have lacked a little of the gloss that one expects in such a character.