Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1958 Australian television play based on Lucille Fletcher's radio play Sorry, Wrong Number. It starred Georgie Sterling.

Plot

The bed-ridden Mrs Stevenson hears on a telephone, due to crossed wires, that a murder is being plotted to occur tonight. She calls various people in a desperate attempt to get someone to believe her story. As the night goes on, she becomes increasingly concerned that the victim may be someone she knows.

Sorry, Wrong Number (1958 film)

Cast

Georgie Sterling as Mrs Stevenson

Del Furze

Derani Scarr

Pat Binstead

Bonnie Walker

John Llewelyn

John Bluthal

Al Garcia

Wayne Polzin

Dorothy Whiteley

Eric Reiman

Production

Sterling had performed in the play on radio in 1948.

Sorry, Wrong Number (1958 film)

Ray Menmuir directed. Menmuir had only just finished directing Murder Story for the ABC.

Sorry, Wrong Number (1958 film)

Follow Up

The ABC subsequently broadcast another one person play on television, Box for One.

References

1958 television plays

1950s Australian television plays

Telephony in popular culture