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Air dates varied including 28 June in [[Canberra]] and 29 June in Melbourne.
==Plot==
A man meets a spinster during a holiday visit, likes her, but flees marriage, re turns the next year more determined and finds her unhappily married to someone else.
==Cast==
*Nonie Stewart
*John Nash
*Reg Cameron
*Betty Ross*
*[[Elaine Cusick]]
*Donald McTaggart
*Vic Hughes
==Reception==
The [[Sydney Morning Herald]] noted it was the fourth television play to be produced by ABC's Brisbane station, and compared it highly unfavourably with the "slick, high professional and sometimes world-class productions" being produced in [[Sydney]] at the time.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k59WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1756%2C1163083|title = Brisbane needs more lessons|last = |first = |date = 4 July 1965|work = [[The Sun-Herald]]|access-date = 23 October 2015|via = }}</ref>
''The Bulletin'' said " Intelligently produced by John Croyston, it [the show] had everything but a good time-slot. It was buried after the late news. The duty announcer urged viewers to stay up for it, and I hope some did. They would have found that “The Quiet Season” was one of those small plays requiring sensitive management, and this Croyston achieved in a masterly way. He also used outside film of trees, rocks and waves to suggest the locale, passages of time, even action which had occurred. The story... is not wildly dramatic material, nor a new plot, but it has poignant, bitter sweet possibilities, and, for once, these were fully realised by the camera and the actors. Often, darting close-ups were used to catch a fleeting expression, a small, quick gesture. Croyston, better known for his radio productions, will be worth watching as a television man."<ref>{{Citation
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| title=The bulletin
| publication-date=1880
| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-682874575
| accessdate=2 April 2019
}} </ref>
==Status==
The [[National Archives of Australia]] hold a film copy of this TV short under the title ''Quiet Season'' (without the "the"), with 7 May 1965 given as the date, and a running time of 28:46, and notes it has been digitised.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Quiet Season|url = http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=13467304|website = National Archives of Australia|accessdate = 2015-10-23}}</ref>
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