It was based on an original play by Jean Allen, a housewife who lived in the town of Wolseley.
There had been 45 entries and they judges included Harry Death, executive producer of the TV series Jonah; local author Max Harris; Rex Heading, who would produce and direct the winner for Channel Nine; and Nine's general manager, Bill Davies.
The cast consisted of local actors including father and son team Jack and Patrick Taggart.
For three parts of its length the play seemed a composite of the Blue Hills type of radio serial and a "human" documentary, with that accomplished actor Hedley Cullen having to submit twice to the indignity of having his most anguished silences interrupted by the recorded mooing of a cow.
The effect was melodramatic, but also a refreshing indication that the author had grown tired of the tidy banality of her semi-documentary beginning.