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1 form y separately published work icon A Time for Love Howard Griffiths , Sonia Borg , John Romeril , Jeff Underhill , Oriel Gray , ( dir. Oscar Whitbread ) Melbourne : ABC Television , 1972 Z1862515 1972 series - publisher film/TV

An anthology series produced at the ABC studios in Melbourne. Ten episodes aired in 1972.
1 form y separately published work icon Noises in Another Room Jeff Underhill , Melbourne : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1972 8116826 1972 single work film/TV

Nothing is currently known of the plot of this episode.
1 form y separately published work icon The Small Wonder Jeff Underhill , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1966 7107116 1966 single work film/TV

Nothing is currently known of the plot of this instalment of Australian Playhouse.
1 form y separately published work icon The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten The Adventures of the Terrible Ten Roger Mirams , Jeff Underhill , Bruce Wishart , ( dir. Roger Mirams et. al. )agent Melbourne : Pacific Film Productions , 1960 Z1823427 1960 series - publisher film/TV children's adventure

A short children's adventure program, which (according to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series) 'concentrated in a pleasant, innocent fashion on a group of children who created their own make-believe town, taking on such jobs as firefighter, police officer and so on'.

The program was the first Australian production for New Zealand-born Roger Mirams, who had arrived in Australia in 1956 to work as a cameraman for the Olympic Games. After this series, Mirams, in Moran's words, 'became an active force in the industry, especially children's drama, over the next 30 years'.
2 5 y separately published work icon The Ballad of Angel's Alley : A Pocket Opera Jeff Underhill , Bruce George (composer), 1958 (Manuscript version)x400042 Z242790 1958 single work musical theatre

Chamber musical.

Set in Melbourne in the 1890s, The Ballad of Angel's Alley concerns that era's 'push' or larrikin gang wars. The narrative is peopled with thieves, cut-throats and riff-raff, and the action is presented in several locations, including Angel's Alley, the Thieves Kitchen and Melbourne gaol (both inside and outside). The story concerns the rivalry between two street gangs, one led by Tiddler and the other by Bill Fiddler. When Tiddler dies from influenza rather than in battle his gang is shamed, giving its enemy the upper hand. Matters turn back in their favour, however, when Tiddler's daughter, Maria, arrives on the scene and leads them with great success.

The authors have attempted to capture the quality of the old ballad melodramas by writing it in a mock-serious style.
1 form y separately published work icon Take That Douglas Tainsh , Jeff Underhill , ( dir. Ian Jones ) Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1957 Z1812986 1957 series - publisher film/TV humour

A sit-com set in a classroom, which, according to Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, was the first drama series produced on Australian television: Crawford Productions drew writers from their radio productions.

Moran notes that 'Because the series went live to air and was not cinescoped for transmission anywhere outside Melbourne, it is unlikely that the series exists even as a memory in the minds of older generations'.
1 1 The Bunyip and the Satellite Barry Humphries , Peter O'Shaughnessy , Jeff Underhill , Don Whitelock , Val Fawcett (composer), 1957 single work musical theatre children's
1 These Melodious Irish Jeff Underhill , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , January vol. 1 no. 7 1947; (p. 309)
— Review of Cullenbenbong Bernard O'Reilly , 1944 single work autobiography ; Melodie's Year Ian Sabey , 1946 single work novel
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