Killer in Close-Up was a blanket title covering four live television drama plays produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1957 and 1958.

[2] The drama plays were based on real-life cases, dramatised for television by George F.

[3] They were, in order: In Melbourne, the play aired against Chesebrough-Ponds Playhouse on HSV-7 (which consisted selections from US anthology series) and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre (aka Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents, a British-American anthology production) on GTV-9, and was broadcast at 8:30PM.

It was broadcast "live" from Sydney on 4 September 1957, recorded and shown in Melbourne on 4 October 1957.

The Sydney Morning Herald said its goal was "to show new techniques in Australian TV production and acting.

The episode The Rattenbury Case may be held by the National Archives of Australia (per a search of their website).