BBC Drama from mid 1970s

[Martin McDowell]

Hi,

I was recently reading that a BBC Executive bought the rights to produce a British version of an Australian TV series called Three Men of the City in 1974. It featured 3 perspectives of the same event and was about the competition to replace the managing director of a big industrial company, the outgoing boss manipulates his possible successors.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Would love to know if it ever got made in the UK. If it did, does it still exist in the archives?

Thanks for reading this!

Martin

[Martin McDowell]

I take it from the resounding silence that noone has any idea what I'm on about? I thought if someone would have recognised this show, you guys on here would so I wonder if that means it was never actually made...

[Stephen Doran]

Who was in it? A Aussie production it sounds good.

[johnstewart]

Jun 18, 2008 14:48:37 GMT Martin McDowell said:

Hi,

I was recently reading that a BBC Executive bought the rights to produce a British version of an Australian TV series called Three Men of the City in 1974. It featured 3 perspectives of the same event and was about the competition to replace the managing director of a big industrial company, the outgoing boss manipulates his possible successors.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Would love to know if it ever got made in the UK. If it did, does it still exist in the archives?

Thanks for reading this!

Martin

Don't know but it sounds possibly as if it may have been the series 'THE BROTHERS' which had a similar plot I think; and does exist at the BBC.

The difficulty in answering this is I suspect the BBC version would have been retitled form the Australian.