Broadcast live from ABC-TV's Sydney studio in June 1959. Telerecorded and then transmitted from ABC-TV's Melbourne studio in July 1959.
Broadcast simultaneously with Antony and Cleopatra (1959), ABC-TV's two studios, in Sydney and Melbourne, not being linked. Together, the first Shakespeare plays shown on Australian television.
There are just a handful of Australian theatrical feature films which are a filmed adaptation of a play by William Shakespeare. These movies are: Macbeth (2006), Measure for Measure (2019), Twelfth Night (1986) and Romeo + Juliet (1996). There are a few more Aussie versions made for television which include: Hamlet (1959), Hamlet (1974), Othello (1964), The Tempest (1963), Antony and Cleopatra (1959), The First 400 Years (1964), 'King Lear' aka 'King Lear for Schools' (1967), Romeo and Juliet (1967), The Merchant of Venice (1961), The Taming of the Shrew (1962), The Taming of the Shrew (1973) and The Life and Death of King Richard II (1960).