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Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 No Picnic Tomorrow
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'Set in a suburb of Melbourne, the play concerns a young Greek boy and an Australian girl who plan to marry. However, the boy's mother, adhering to tradition, arranges a marriage between her son and a Greek girl, who is coming to Australia from Greece.'

Source:

[Television guide], The Age, 21 January 1960, p.16.

Notes

  • Television play.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Nine Network , 1960 .
      Extent: 60min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Shell Presents Melbourne Sydney : Nine Network Australian Television Network , 1959-1960 7187840 1959 series - publisher film/TV

      A loose anthology series, made in Sydney by ATN-7 and in Melbourne by GTV-9, and aired throughout 1959.

      As with many early Australian anthology series, the contents were a combination of locally written material and overseas works; in this case, however, local content made up 50% of the series.
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Works about this Work

60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s Stephen Vagg , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 February 2019;
60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s Stephen Vagg , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 February 2019;
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