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The Hungry Ones

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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

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Production

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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

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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

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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

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  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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