The Australian Theatre Festival was a series of adaptations of Australian plays filmed by the ABC in 1979-80 and first aired August 1980.
[1] Six plays were filmed first the first season at an estimated budget of $5,000 an episode.
They aired on Sunday night opposite movies on the commercial channels.
[1] Six additional plays were filmed for season two.
[2] They were partly inspired by a government ruling that the ABC could keep any money it made selling projects overseas.