The Caine Mutiny is a 1959 Australian TV play based on The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial broadcast by Melbourne's Channel 7. It was the first full-length live drama to be presented on a commercial TV channel and was broadcast on 11 January 1959 over two hours. Peter Randall produced and the cast had performed the play for three weeks at the Little Theatre in South Yarra."Caine Mutiny" on TV, The Age, T.V. Supplement, 9 January 1959
It was the first live TV drama in Australia to not come from the ABC studios.
Cast George Fairfax as Barney Greenwald Kevin Colebrook as Commander Queeg Robert Gardiner as Maryak
Reception The Age called it "a triumph".
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