No Picnic Tomorrow (1960)

Directed by

Rod Kinnear

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A television drama about family tensions and hidden conflicts. It follows characters dealing with personal crises in a quiet suburban setting.

understatedmelancholicunsettlingslow-burnsomberatmosphericrestrainedreflective

What happens

"No Picnic Tomorrow" is an Australian television drama one-off which aired in 1960 on ATN-7 in Sydney and GTV-9 in Melbourne (as this was prior to the creation of the Seven Network and Nine Network). Part of the Shell Presents series of one-off television dramas and comedies, it was produced in Melbourne, but first shown in Sydney on 9 January 1960, and on 23 January 1960 Melbourne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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