Crime Passionel

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| based_on = play by Jean-Paul Sartre

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| director = Royston Morley

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| runtime = 90 minutes

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| released = {{Start date|1959|11|11|df=y}} (Sydney, live)

| released2 = {{Start date|1959|11|17|df=y}} (Brisbane)

| released3 = {{Start date|1960|02|10|df=y}} (Melbourne)

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Crime Passionel is a 1959 Australian television play. It was based on a play by Jean-Paul Sartre and was directed by Royston Morley.

The play had been broadcast that year by the BBC.

It was broadcast live in Sydney on 11 November 1959. A recording was made of this and shown in Brisbane on 17 November 1959{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Times|page=5|title=Bomb in the Studio|date=12 November 1959}} and Melbourne on 10 February 1960.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC&dat=19600204&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=Wednesday Television|date=4 February 1960|page=11 Radio TV Supplement}} It went for 90 minutes.{{Cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=TV Guide|date=9 November 1959|page=14}}

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s|date=February 18, 2019}}