AustLit

Satan and his wife visit Sydney, looking for new souls to harvest.

'Set in an old bush hut on a grazing property in norther N.S.W., the story centres on the conflict of a rediscovered love between Billy Brocknell, who gets a job breaking horses on the large property, and his former wife, Margaret, now married to the elderly property owner.'

Source: 'TV Programmes', Age, 10 May 1962, p.11.

'It was the story of an Italian migrant family, the Mancellos, whose dress-manufacturing business is tottering. The Mancellos import Joe, a dress-designer relative from Italy, to save the business. He makes big changes, which Mamma Mancello bitterly resents. Daughter Lucia is less conservative but not keen on Joe's ideas. She wants to sell the business to help her ghastly Australian boy-friend and spur on their marriage.'

Source:

Musgrove, Nan. 'In Evening Gown, She Bottled Peaches'. Australian Women's Weekly, 16 May 1962, p.13.

'Drama about a half [A]boriginal man who marries a white woman – an indication that Australian television was willing to confront some of the nation’s trickier social issues head on' (FilmInk)