Chance of a Ghost

Chance of a Ghost is a 1958 Australian television play directed by Royston Morley and written by James Carhartt based on a play by Carhartt and Nicholas Winter. It was based on a radio play.[3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

Chance of a Ghost
Genre	thriller
Based on	play by James Carhartt and Nicholas Winter
Written by	James Carhartt
Directed by	Royston Morley
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	ABC
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	26 February, 1958 (Sydney, live)[1] 28 March 1958 (Melbourne, taped)[2]

Plot

On New Year's Eve, a party of Americans have a celebrations at a penthouse where 20 years before a musical comedy star had been killed. One member of the party, Serena, becomes interested in the story. She becomes so obsessed she is "possessed" by the spirit of the dead woman and begins to look and behave like her.

Cast

• Bert Bertram as Friend
• Jacqueline Knott as Serena
• Moray Powell
• Walter Sullivan

Production

The idea for the plot came from a murder committed at the Medical Arts Building in New York. "For years afterwards no one would rent the place and it became known as the haunted penthouse," said James Carhartt who turned it into a play with Nicholas Winter. Carhartt was an American who moved to Sydney and he adapted the play for Australian television.[5]

See also

• List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s)

References

1. "Untitled". ABC Weekly. 26 February 1958. p. 7.
2. "TV Guide". The Age. 27 March 1958. p. 26.
3. "Advertising". The Canberra Times. 31 (9, 208). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 June 1957. p. 11. Retrieved 20 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
5. "Us Author in Australia Adapts Own Play for TV". The Age. 27 March 1958. p. 23.

External links

• Chance of a Ghost at IMDb