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.

[1] [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

[2] Australian Broadcasting Commission. (25 March 1944), "Coming on the air", ABC Weekly, retrieved 22 January 2024 – via Trove

[3] "Watch for these...". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 August 1963. p. 85.

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