The Happy Journey
The Happy Journey is a 1963 Australian television play based on the Thornton Wilder play The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (1963).
It was the first Australian television play filmed in Hobart. The director was John Baldwin.[1]
The play had been filmed for British television and adapted for Australian radio in 1944.[2]
It aired in Hobart on 30 July 1963, Sydney on 19 August 1963 and Melbourne on 2 October 1963.[3]
Premise
Almost the entire play takes place during an automobile journey from Newark to Camden, New Jersey, by a family on their way to visit a married daughter, who has recently lost a baby in childbirth.
Cast
- Marcus Cooney
- Barbara Crompton
- Aileen Jenkins
- Patricia Owen
- Nigel Triffit
External links
- The Happy Journey at IMDB
References
- ^ [ABC Local Television Programmes publicity file] Drama: The Happy Journey [Drama. Item contains correspondence relating to the programme] [Box 52A] [2p] NAA: SP1011/1, 590
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (25 March 1944), "Coming on the air", ABC Weekly, retrieved 22 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Watch for these...". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 August 1963. p. 85.
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Thornton Wilder
- The Long Christmas Dinner (1931)
- The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (1931)
- Our Town (1938)
- The Merchant of Yonkers (1938)
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
- The Matchmaker (1954)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
- The Woman of Andros (1930)
- Ides of March (1948)
- The Eighth Day (1967)
- Theophilus North (1973)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929 film)
- Our Town (1940 film)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film)
- Our Town (1955 TV)
- The Matchmaker (1958 film)
- The Happy Journey (1963)
- Hello, Dolly! (1964 musical)
- Hello, Dolly! (1969 film)
- Our Town (2003 film)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004 film)
- Our Town (2006 opera)
- OT: Our Town (documentary)
- Amos Wilder (brother)
- Charlotte Wilder (sister)
- Janet Wilder Dakin (sister)
