The Hungry Ones

The Hungry Ones
Advertisement from The Age, 20 July 1963
GenreMini-series
Written byRex Rienits
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
ProducerColin Dean
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC Television
Release7 July (1963-07-07) –
8 September 1963 (1963-09-08)

The Hungry Ones was an Australian television mini-series. It was a period drama about a pair of husband and wife convicts trying to go straight, consisting of 10 30-minute black-and-white episodes, which aired on ABC. Unlike previous serials it was videotaped rather than performed live to camera.[1]

Notably, the cast included Leonard Teale and Fay Kelton. Also appearing were Edward Hepple, Nigel Lovell, John Ewart, and Brigid Lenihan.[2][3]

The archival status of the series is not known. It was among a series of four historical mini-series broadcast by ABC in the early 1960s, which had proved successful enough to encourage commercial broadcaster Seven Network to produce their own such series, Jonah, in 1962.[4]

Cast

Production

Rex Rienits, who had written Stormy Petrel and The Outcasts but not Patriots, wrote episodes in London where he was living and sent them on.[2]

Filming started June 1963 at Gore Hill.

It was an early TV role for Leonard Teale.[5]

Episodes

No.TitleOriginal air dateMelbourne air date
1Unknown7 July 1963 (1963-07-07)21 July 1963
Meet the Bryants in Cornwall in 1784
2"Bound for Botany Bay"14 July 1963 (1963-07-14)28 July 1963
3Unknown21 July 1963 (1963-07-21)4 August 1963
4Unknown28 July 1963 (1963-07-28)11 August 1963
5"Days of Famine"4 August 1963 (1963-08-04)18 August 1963
6Unknown11 August 1963 (1963-08-11)25 August 1963
7Unknown18 August 1963 (1963-08-18)1 September 1963
8"The Escape"25 August 1963 (1963-08-25)8 September 1963
9Unknown1 September 1963 (1963-09-01)15 September 1963
10Unknown8 September 1963 (1963-09-08)22 September 1963

Reception

An article in the 18 March 1964 edition of Australian Women's Weekly stated that the historical serials were "very good entertainment" with the exception of The Hungry Ones[6]

References

  1. ^ "Rienits, Dean Again for the Hungry Ones". TV & Radio. The Age. Melbourne. 18 July 1963. p. 2. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Weekend TV and Radio". The Canberra Times. Vol. 37, no. 10, 581. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 6 July 1963. p. 18. Retrieved 16 July 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ ""The Hungry Ones"". The Australian Women's Weekly. 10 July 1963. p. 17. Retrieved 6 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "JONAH". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  5. ^ Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. pp. 124–127.
  6. ^ "Life of musical genius, by Disney". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 31, no. 42. 18 March 1964. p. 15. Retrieved 20 June 2013 – via National Library of Australia.


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