We Were Children (The Philco Television Playhouse)
| "We Were Children" | |
|---|---|
| The Philco Television Playhouse episode | |
 The Journal Times 3 May 1952 | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Gordon Duff |
| Written by | Sumner Locke Elliott |
| Original air date | May 4, 1952 |
| Running time | 60 mins |
"We Were Children" is a 1952 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It originally aired as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse produced by Fred Coe.
It focused on the influence of childhood on adult development.[1]
Variety called it "well constructed" and "artfully presented".[2]
Premise
[edit]A brother embezzles from the family business.
Radio adaptation
[edit]The play was adapted for Australian radio in 1954.[3] Muriel Steinbeck starred.[4]
A reviewer for The Daily Telegraph said "Reviewing a long and de pressing acquaintance with the radio works of Mr. Locke-Elliott, I can not recall more than one instance when he has displayed either the authority or the imagination of even a second-rate playwright. We Were Children fairly Iechoed with the cantankerous whining of frustrated American womanhood, and the occasional disconsolate barking of a tired American businessman.... the dialogue was so constructed as to convey a dreary, indefinable uneasiness among its inmates."[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "NBC Drama to Feature Davd Niven". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 4 May 1952. p. 134.
- ^ "Tele Follow Up Comment". Variety. 7 May 1952. p. 36.
- ^ "Radio Personalities: Maurice Travers", ABC Weekly, vol. 15, no. 49, Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 5 December 1953, nla.obj-1549963147, retrieved 20 November 2023 – via Trove
- ^ "Locke Elliott TV Drama in GM Hour". The Age. 14 January 1954. p. 17.
- ^ "Around the Dial". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XVIII, no. 262. New South Wales, Australia. 23 January 1954. p. 22. Retrieved 20 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.