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 Producer: Patrick Barton 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

 * Brian Hannan - Napoleon Bonaparte
 * Anne Charleston - The Lady
 * Dennis Miller - The Lieutenant
 * Stanley Page - The Innkeeper

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden
Date: 13 September 1967 Director: John Croyston 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

 * Wynn Roberrs - Sergeant Musgrave
 * Sean Scully
 * Richard Meikle
 * Edward Hepple
 * Michael Boddy
 * Don Crosby
 * Neva Carr Glynn
 * Alice Fraser

L'Flaherty, VC by George Bernard Shaw
Date: 20 September 1967 It aired in Sydney as part of Wednesday Theatre and ran for 70 minutes.

Cast

 * Edwin Hodgeman
 * Kerry Maguire
 * Moray Powell
 * Audrey Teasdale

The Brass Butterfly by William Golding
Date: 27 September 1967 Director: John Croyston It ran for 90 minutes.

Premise
In Ancient Rome, an emperor reflects on his life.

Cast

 * Peter Collingwood - Emperor
 * Ron Graham
 * Sue Condon
 * Peter Rowley - Maximilus
 * Mark Albiston - Postumus
 * Alistair Duncan - Scientist
 * Diana Ferris - Euphresne

Intersection by Michael Boddy
Date: 4 October 1967 Director: John Croyston 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

 * Helen Morse
 * John Gregg
 * Robert McDarra
 * Beryl Cheers
 * Slim De Grey
 * Frank Lloyd

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 Director: Storry Walton

Cast

 * Ron Graham
 * Moya O'Sullivan

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
See Romeo and Juliet (1967 film)