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Love and War (Australian TV series)

Love and War is a 1967 Australian TV series.

It consists of six plays shot in ABC's Gore Hill studios. All of the self-contained episodes were produced by John Croyston, but not all of them were written by Australian script-writers.

Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw

Date: 6 September 1967<br>Producer: Patrick Barton<br>It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 60 minutes.

The play had already been filmed by the ABC in 1963.

Cast

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden

Date: 13 September 1967<br>Director: John Croyston<br>It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 90 minutes.

Plot

An anti-war fanatic falls victim to anarchy of his own making. In England at the end of the 19th century a small group of soldiers, led by the hardest man in the line, goes to a strike bound mining town in the north of England.

Cast

O'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw

Date: 20 September 1967<br>It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 70 minutes.

Cast

The Brass Butterfly by William Golding

Date: 27 September 1967<br>Director: John Croyston<br>It ran for 90 minutes.

Premise

In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.

Cast

Intersection by Michael Boddy

Date: 4 October 1967<br>Director: John Croyston<br>It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre, and ran for 65 minutes.

Plot

A woman leaves a small town where she has a boyfriend and falls for a guitarist.

Cast

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said: "The cast did what they could with it. Director John Croyston did what he could."

Construction by John Croyston

Date: 11 October 1967<br>Director: Storry Walton

Cast

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)

Cast

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