Friday the 13th (The Philco Television Playhouse)
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| season = 6
| episode = 21
| director = Arthur Penn
| writer = Sumner Locke Elliott
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| airdate = {{Start date|1954|06|27}}
| length = 60 mins
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"Friday the 13th" is a 1954 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It originally aired as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse produced by Fred Coe and directed by Arthur Penn.{{Cite news |date=26 June 1954 |title=Friday the 13th on Playhouse |page=10 |work=The Times-Mail}}
Elliott originally wrote the script for television but then adapted it for radio and sent it back to Harry Dearthin Australia. He arranged a broadcast of the play on Australian radio in 1955 as an episode of Harry Dearth's Playhouse starring Gordon Glenwright and Charles Tingwell.
The script was filmed again for television for NBC Matinee Theater in 1956.
Premise
According to a description of the radio adaptation it is "The tense and dramatic story of three women involved in a car accident-a skillful combination of suspense and human interest-it is, in fact, an omnibus play for it tells three stories in one."{{Cite news |date=6 February 1955 |title=WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9 |page=19 |work=The Sunday Times |issue=2931 |location=Western Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59701384 |access-date=20 November 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}}
A longer description was provided by ABC Weekly which said "When the car containing Trilby Harris, Barbara Mack and Elaine Prescott skids off a wet road, crashes through a fence and careers over a cliff edge, one of the occupants is killed. But the husbands of the three women are not told which one. As they wait at the cliff top a single question drums in the mind of each man: “Was it my wife?”"{{Citation |title=Commercial |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1698497561 |work=ABC Weekly |volume=17 |issue=6 |date=5 February 1955 |access-date=20 November 2023 |place=Sydney |publisher=ABC |id=nla.obj-1698497561 |via=Trove}}
References
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External links
- {{AustLit|6455875|q=yes}}
- {{IMDb episode|0674293}}
- {{IMDb episode|1277313|description=(NBC Matinee Theater production)}}
{{Sumner Locke Elliott}}
{{Arthur Penn}}
Category:1955 Australian radio dramas