Pardon Miss Westcott

"**Pardon Miss Westcott**"
"Pardon Miss Westcott"
Shell Presents episode
	Advertisement in The Age, 17 Dec 1959
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 10
Directed by	David Cahill
Teleplay by	Peter Benjamin; Alan Burke;
Featured music	Peter Stannard; lyrics; Peter Benjamin
Original air date	12 December 1959
Running time	75 mins
Guest appearances
	Wendy Blacklock; Queenie Ashton;
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"Pardon Miss Westcott!" is a 1959 Australian TV play by the Seven Network as part of drama anthology series Shell Presents. It was a musical set in colonial Australia and was broadcast live. It was Australia's first commissioned for television musical comedy.^[1]^[2]^[3] "Pardon Miss Westcott" aired on 12 December 1959 in Sydney and on 19 December 1959 in Melbourne.

It ran for 75 minutes and featured eight new songs and a cast of nineteen.^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference SMH was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Vagg, Stephen (23 December 2019). "Australian Film Musicals You Probably Didn't Realise Existed". Filmink.
^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
^ "As Miss Westcott". The Age. 17 December 1959. p. 13.

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[vagg-2] Vagg, Stephen (23 December 2019). "Australian Film Musicals You Probably Didn't Realise Existed". Filmink.

[3] Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.

[4] "As Miss Westcott". The Age. 17 December 1959. p. 13.

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