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The Road (1964)

The Road poster
Directed by
Patrick Barton
Genre
tv movie, horror, fantasy, thriller, mystery, science fiction
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 15m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British television play from 1963 that was later remade in Australia. It was part of an anthology series and its script was published in a collection of works by the same writer. No recordings of the production are known to exist.

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What happens

"The Road" is a 1963 British television play by Nigel Kneale. It was broadcast as part of the BBC Television anthology drama series First Night. An Australian remake was aired the following year. No recordings of the production on either video or audio are known to exist. The script for "The Road" was published alongside those for Kneale's teleplays The Year of the Sex Olympics and The Stone Tape under the title The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays in 1976. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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