The Story of Peter Grey

The Story of Peter Grey
Genre	soap opera
Written by	Kay Keavney
Directed by	David Cahill
Starring	James Condon
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	156
Production
Running time	15 mins
Release
Original network	ATN-7
First shown in	July 1962

The Story of Peter Grey was an Australian television daytime soap opera made by the Seven Network in 1961. James Condon starred in the title role as a church minister, with other cast members including Thelma Scott, Lynne Murphy, Moya O'Sullivan. Produced in Sydney, the series had a run of 156 fifteen-minute episodes, and was in black and white.

Peter Grey is a clergyman appointed to a new parish. He is married to neurotic Brenda. He forms a friendship with his predecessor, Rev Henry Marner and the latter's daughter Jane.

In 1959, ATN-7 announced they would produce three new television series, two 30-minute dramas and a 15-minute "woman's program". The 15 minute show was the The Story of Peter Grey produced in the same style as Autumn Affair which ended on 20 October 1959. Peter Grey was to be shown three times a week and run for 12 months. The title role was played by James Condon, who had been one of the stars of Johnny Belinda.

(The first of the 30-minute dramas was to be called The World of Marius Crump, the story of the devil in the disguise of a charming, whimsical character who wins or loses a soul in each episode, similar to Damn Yankees. Each episode was to be a selfcontained story, but Mr Crump will be the central character every week. The series would be written by Richard Lane. It never became a series. Nor did the other 30-minute drama.)

The series was shot on videotape at ATN-7's studios in Epping Sydney. By 4 July 1960 the first four episodes had been taped. By August 1961 it was reportedly half way through filming.

The show screened in mid afternoon.

In 1964, Melbourne station HSV-7 repeated the series, accompanied by repeats of the 1958-1959 series Autumn Affair. A large number of episodes of both series are held by the National Film and Sound Archive.

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