The Queen's Bishop

{{Infobox television episode | series = [[Wednesday Theatre]] | image = | caption = | season = 4 | episode = 43 | director = [[John Croyston]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Replacements for a Queen - drama|newspaper=The Age|date=21 November 1968|page=29|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122118182/?terms=%22queen%27s%20bishop%22&match=1}}</ref> | teleplay = | based_on = play by Joan Baldwin | photographer = | music = | airdate = {{Start date|1968|11|27|df=yes}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122125291/?terms=%22queen%27s%2Bbishop%22|newspaper=The Age|date=21 November 1968|title=TV Guide|page=39}}</ref> | length = 60 mins | guests = | prev = The Gambler Part 2 | next = [[Cobwebs in Concrete]] }} "'''The Queen's Bishop'''" is an Australian TV play. It aired on the ABC as part of ''[[Wednesday Theatre]]''.<ref>{{cite news|date=17 November 1968|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|page=58|title=The Scorpios Who Shine|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/120558092/?terms=%22queen%27s%20bishop%22&match=1}}</ref>

According to a TV Guide listing, the play is "about a family and their relationships to one another".<ref>{{cite news|date=25 November 1968|page=20|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=TV Guide|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/120568828/?terms=%22queen%27s%20bishop%22&match=1}}</ref>

==Premise== Lady Simpson was the pivot around which her family revolved. Then she died, and the family collapses into a battle for leadership which threaten to tear the family apart. Sir Leonard Simpson tries to replace his lost Queen (Lady Simpson) with his secretary. The rest of the family rallies under the leadership of its Queen, Pauline, the wife of Sir Leonard's eldest son, Bede, to keep out the secretary, who they feel is an outsider.<ref>{{Cite news|date=21 November 1968|page=29|newspaper=The Age|title=Replacement for a Queen - drama|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122118182/?terms=%22queen%27s%2Bbishop%22}}</ref>

==Cast== * Eve Wyn as Lady Simpson * [[John Warwick]] as Sir Leonard Simpson * Kay Taylor as his secretary * [[Betty Lucas]] as Queen Pauline * [[Ron Graham (actor)|Ron Graham]] as Bede Simpson * Martha Goddard * Marion Johns * [[Sheila Kennelly]] * [[Helen Morse]]

==Production== The show was shot in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news|date=27 November 1968|page=6|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Clips|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/120569613/?terms=%22queen%27s%2Bbishop%22}}</ref>

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