Double Yolk

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| writer = Hugh Williams
Margaret Williams

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| director = Patrick Barton

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| runtime = 60 mins {{cite news|date=9 May 1963|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122084344/?terms=%22patrick%2Bbarton%22|title=TV Guide|newspaper=The Age|page=27}}

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| released = {{Start date|1963|05|15|df=y}} (Melbourne){{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8F8RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lJYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3924%2C1453054|title=Authors Doubled Yolked|date=9 May 1963|page=10}}

| released2 = {{Start date|1963|06|26|df=y}} (Sydney){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131724956 |title=THIS WEEK ON ABC3 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=37 |issue=10,570 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=24 June 1963 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news|title=TV Guide|date=24 June 1963|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121246495/?terms=%22double%2Byolk%22}}

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Double Yolk is a 1963 Australian television play. It adapts two short plays, "By Accident" and "With Intent".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131724952 |title=Untitled |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=37 |issue=10,570 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=24 June 1963 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}} Both were by Hugh and Margaret Williams, who had written The Grass is Greener.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109895137 |title=Two Plays In One Feature |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=37 |issue=10,572 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=26 June 1963 |accessdate=19 February 2017 |page=35 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{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}}

''By Accident''

"By Accident" is set in Northampton. It is about an air force pilot Bill about to be promoted to squadron leader whose wife Jane worries he will be killed in action, as her father was.

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''With Intent''

"With Intent" is set in a house between Liverpool and Southport. It is about an invalid woman, Helen, who has a nurse, Miss Bennett (Joan Letch). The woman receives a letter from her husband Colin which was intended for another woman.

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  • Keith Eden as Colin
  • Betty Berrell as Helen
  • Joan Letch as Miss Bennett
  • Edward Howell as doctor

Cast

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Elspeth Ballantyne

|Jane

Keith Eden

|Colin

Betty Berrell

|Helen

Dorothy Bradley

|Ann

Edward Howell

|Doctor

Joan Letch

|Miss Bennett

Fred Parslow

|Bill

Leslie Wright

|Jim

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