Arabesque for Atoms

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox television | image = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = drama | creator = | writer = [[John Warwick]] | screenplay = | based_on = | story = | director = [[John Croyston]] | starring = | narrator = | music = | country = Australia | language = English | num_episodes = | producer = | editor = | cinematography = | runtime = | company = ABC | budget = | network = [[ABC TV (Australian TV channel)|ABC]] | released = {{Start date|1965|09|15|df=y}} (Brisbane) }} '''''Arabesque for Atoms''''' is a 1965 Australian television play shot in Brisbane.<ref name="times">{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Times|title=Arabesque for Atoms|date=8 September 1965|page=11}}</ref>

==Plot== An English atomic scientist (Alister Smart) on his way to a Pacific testing site takes refuge in a lonely house in Brisbane. He is visited by a seductress called Stella (Margery Milne).

==Cast== *[[Alister Smart]] *Margery Milne *Phillip College *Linda Chan

==Production== Alister Smart and Margery Milne were married in real life. It was shot at ABC's studios in Toowong with externals filmed in city streets and at Eagle Farm Airport.<ref name="times"/>

The script was also performed on radio.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131764545 |title=Radio Programmes |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=39 |issue=11,119 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=1 April 1965 |accessdate=12 October 2020 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==See also== *''[[Vacancy in Vaughan Street]]'' (1963) *''[[Dark Brown (1963 film)|Dark Brown]]'' (1963) *''[[The Quiet Season]]'' (1965) *''[[Ring Out Wild Bells (Wednesday Theatre)|Ring Out Wild Bells]]'' (1964) *''[[The Absence of Mr Sugden]]'' (1965) *''[[A Sleep of Prisoners]]'' (1961) *''[[The Monkey Cage]]'' (1966)

==References== {{reflist}} {{John Croyston}}

[[Category:1965 television plays]] [[Category:1960s Australian television plays]]