No Picnic Tomorrow
No Picnic Tomorrow is an Australian television drama one-off which aired in 1960 on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne (as this was prior to the creation of the Seven Network and Nine Network). Part of the Shell Presents series of one-off television dramas and comedies, it was produced in Melbourne, but first shown in Sydney on 9 January 1960. The drama was written by Barbara Vernon,[1] best known at the time for writing the play The Multi-Coloured Umbrella (adapted for television in 1958), and who had previously written the ABC TV comedy one-off The Passionate Pianist in 1957. Duration was 60 minutes including commercials (running time excluding commercials is not known. Homicide episodes from the mid-1960s typically run 45–47 minutes, while some early locally produced hour-long programming on commercial television could run as long as 51 minutes).
Plot
An Australian woman and a man of Greek descent intend to marry, however the mother of the latter decides to arrange a marriage between him and a Greek woman.
Cast
- Margaret Browne
- Robin Ramsay
- Peter Aanensen
- Marjorie Archibald
- Nina Black
- Carol Armstrong
- Bruce Archer
See also
- A Little South of Heaven - 1961 ABC television play with a similar theme
- List of television plays broadcast on ATN-7