The Hobby Horse (film)

The Hobby Horse
Ad in The Age 16 May 1962
Written byRobert Wales
Directed byWilliam Sterling
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time60 mins
Production companyAustralian Broadcasting Commission
Original release
Release16 May 1962 (1962-05-16)[1]
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The Hobby Horse is a 1962 Australian television play which aired on ABC. Broadcast live,[2] it was a drama set on a grazing property in northern New South Wales about a rodeo rider.

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3] It was one of a series of six Australian plays produced by the ABC in 1962.[4] The others were:

  1. ^ ""Bush" Scots Tale". The Age. 10 May 1962. p. 13.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 10 May 1962.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. ^ "Young Star's Work". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 March 1962. p. 13.