Killer in Close-Up | |
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Genre | Anthology |
Written by | George F. Kerr |
Directed by | Christopher Muir William Sterling Raymond Menmuir |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | 9 September 1957 13 August 1958 | –
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Killer in Close-Up was a blanket title covering four live television drama plays produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1957 and 1958. It could be seen as the first anthology series produced for Australian television.
Production of the plays was split equally between the Melbourne and Sydney ABC stations, with the first and fourth being produced in Sydney, the second and third in Melbourne.[1] Each ran for 25 minutes. The plays were produced by Christopher Muir, Raymond Menmuir and Will Sterling.
The title came from the use of the close up in television drama.[2]
The drama plays were based on real-life cases, dramatised for television by George F. Kerr.[3] They were, in order:
In Melbourne, the play aired against Chesebrough-Ponds Playhouse on HSV-7 (which consisted selections from US anthology series) and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre (aka Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, a British-American anthology production) on GTV-9, and was broadcast at 8:30PM.[8] In effect, viewers had a choice of three different half-hour self-contained dramas during that night.
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