They Were Big, They Were Blue, They Were Beautiful

[5][6] Set in Sydney, two men (Stewart Ginn and Kevin Brennan), after being released from prison, unintentionally become involved in a baby kidnapping plot.

The judges, Harry Dearth, Royston Morley, and John McCallum, said the standard of entries was disappointingly low.

[12] Australian's governor general, Sir William Slim visited the set and watched dress rehearsals.

[14] The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the "chief fault" of the play was it "stretched half an hour's worth of material over an hour-long format" and "the direct, waist-high frontal attack of director David Cahill's cameras.

A little more imagination in the choice of angles and distance would have considerably reduced this monotony of observation" however it praised the touches and thought "the actors served... [the writer] well.

Author Ross Napier proved to be a skilled and professional manipulator of words and dialogue but he developed one joke... far too long.