Old Man March is Dead is a 1976 British television play done as part of the "Commonwealth Season" for Centre Play. It represented New Zealand and was from the New Zealand author Bruce Stewart.
The Australian entry was Sweeping Plains.
An old war veteran prepares to die.
The Daily Telegraph compalined "this was a stiff, posed family portrait with each member of the family household representing an attitude rather than a character and the drama as a whole had no strong New Zealand flavour."