AustLit

American re-make of the Australian television series of the same name.

'[T]he extended family show is about a wife and mother who learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers. Sagal will play Julie, the wife of Wayne (Lynch) and the matriarch of the family. After Wayne lost an eye, Julie stepped in as the lead driver of Team Wheeler.'

Source: Deadline Hollywood (http://deadline.com/2016/02/katey-sagal-cast-cbs-pilot-butler-hope-oshannon-1201709255/). (Sighted: 26/2/2016)

Larry, a palm tree farmer in the Australian outback, learns that his ex-wife has died, and that his daughter Lara is coming to live with him. He wants things to work out, but Lara has a rocky time with Larry's new wife Gladwyn, and their eldest daughter Pearl, as well as Gowd, a school bully. But with the help and love of her father, her new younger sister Opal, and a dog named Thunderwith, Lara begins to find the resources she needs to make a home with this new family.

Alone in a hotel room, Freda Mansfield receives mysterious phone calls from someone who claims to know something important about Freda's lover.

An American anthology television series hosted by Roald Dahl.

A murder mystery set in Cobar, New South Wales, in the mid-nineteenth century.

It aired first in the UK as part of anthology series ITV Play of the Week, then in the US as part of anthology series The United States Steel Hour, then in Australia as part of anthology series General Motors Hour.

A contemporary review offers the following detailed synopsis:

'The story starts when one of the young men of the town of Cobar, western New South Wales, is found battered to death. A man called Jem was lying in a drunken stupor beside the body and the murder weapon, an iron bar, is found near the scene of the crime.

'Jem is immediately accused of the crime, but floods prevent his being sent to an established court for trial.

'Coldringer, an old German opal prospector, suggests to the townsfolk that they set up their own court and have the trial in the town.

'The locals agree that the best way of ensuring that Jem is given a fair trial is to make Rigger, the father of the murdered man, defend Jem, and let the prosecution be handed by Kirk, who was Jem's employer.

'Neither Rigger nor Kirk is happy with the townsfolks' decision, but they eventually agree to accept the court arrangements.'

Source: 'Murder Trial in a Bush Town', The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 1960, p.7

Inspired by the unsolved 'Shark Arm case' in Sydney, Australia, in 1935, when a captured tiger shark regurgitated a tottooed human arm that proved to have been severed by a knife.

A contemporary review of this production in the New York Times reads:

'A drama based on an Australian murder trial provided a suspenseful telecast on "Playhouse 90" over Channle 2 last night.

'Sumner Locke Elliott's play, "The Grey Nurse Said Nothing," told by flashback narrative of a grisly murder trial that remained unsolved for thirteen years.

'The eventual solution of the crime of passion involved an unexpected development that gave the drama a diverting climax. A predominantly British cast gave uniformly good performances in this Fred Coe production, directed by Ronald Winston.

'The players included Hugh Griffith as a philosophical parson who told the story, Ann Todd an unhappy wife, Michael David, a murder suspect, Angela Lansbury, a teacher with the key to the crime, and Patricia Cutts, a friendly barmaid.'

Source:

'Murder Trail Is Basis for Suspenseful Show', New York Times, 27 November 1959, p.59.

'On their way to New York City, two girls meet on a train and agree to share an apartment. Olivia Beech is a carefree art student, while ambitious Frances Barclay is determined to become a great actress. But life in the big city produces a change in their aspirations and even in their personalities.'

Source: Classic TV Archive (http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/USSteelHour_06_%281958-59%29.htm). (Sighted: 23/9/2013)

A young cadet is accused of theft, prompting his family to pursue the matter to the law courts.

Based on the experience of actual Stonyhurst College alumnus George Archer-Shee.

'Belinda is one of the popular bachelor girls called on when guest lists are made up for Washington, D.C. parties. But beneath her gaiety, Belinda fears a life of loneliness, for she has frightened away suitors by her eagerness to marry. Then her friend Bunny introduces Belinda to handsome Jack Marshall.'

Source: Classic TV Archive (http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/StudioOne_10_%281957-58%29.htm). (Sighted: 23/9/2013)

American anthology series.

Nothing is known of the plot of this work.

The Herald Sun (published in Yonkers, New York) said of this episode:

'A tempting comic story by veteran Sumner Locke Elliott mixes farce with psychology. Giselle McKenzie has a whale of a role–in fact, four roles. She's alternately a simpering authoress, cold-as-ice career girl, lunatic gypsy violinist and ethereal singer. William Redfield is the hapless bachelor who falls in love with all four of her, and Evelyn Varden gets off a few clever quips as his mother. This is a "different" comedy from anything you've seen recently on TV, and the best yet from able new Studio One producer Gordon Duff.'

Source:

'Tonight's Pick of the TV Best', Herald Sun, 7 Janary 1957, p.12.

The fourth film/television adaptation of Alec Coppel's play, this time adapted by American script-writer Francis M. Cockrell as a self-contained series within the anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

American anthology television series.