Australian TV Drama of the 1950s and 1960s

The narrative of the Australian TV industry basically has it that Aussie drama didn't get going until Homicide. And basically it's true - but things weren't a complete graveyard. It was a graveyard compared to what came later, but there were shows being made. There was Aussie drama on the first night the ABC broadcast.

It just doesn't seem like it, even to buffs, because
a) most of the shows weren't repeated, so people don't realize
b) audiences weren't huge
c) many of the shows were Australian versions of overseas stories, eg Patrick Hamilton's Rope, Shakespeare, or Twelve Pound Note (the show dramatized on said first night of the ABC)
d) the writers and directors who worked on those shows didn't go on to become famous (cf US directors of the early days of TV like George Roy Hill, Delbert Mann, John Frankenheimer or writers like Paddy Chayefsky). Directors (they were called producers but they were basically directors) like Colin Dean, Raymond Menmuir, Chris Muir, Alan Burke, Patrick Barton and William Sterling; writers like Barbara Vernon, Bruce Stewart and Philip Grenville Mann.

But there was a surprisingly large amount of it. I'm sure a lot of it would've been terrible but some it sounds fascinating such as:
1) The Devil Makes Sunday (1962) - tale of a convict uprising on Norfolk Island in 1840s - originally performed on US and British TV
2) Outpost (1959) - tale of Australian soldiers in WW2, which was so well received it was broadcast in the US
3) A Light for Lucifer (1962) - the writer of They're a Weird Mob does a tale about the devil (Frank Thring) going to Sydney
4) Wild Life and Christmas Belles (1958) - a revue which contains (I think) the first TV appearance of Mrs Edna Everage
5) Ned Kelly (1959) - version of the Douglas Stewart play
6) Night of the Ding Dong (1961) - fun sounding account of war panic in 1870s Adelaide when a Russian boat is spotted
7) Burst of Summer (1961) - adaptation of an Oriel Grey play about an aboriginal woman who becomes a film star
8) The Multi Coloured Umbrella (1958) - adaptation of a play by Barbara Vernon
9) Swamp Creatures (1960) - adaptation of play by Alan Seymour
10) Bodgie (1959) - Rex Rienets play Wide Boy (filmed in Britain) adapted for Australia by Alan Seymour
11) The Sergeant from Burrallee (1963) - tale about the killing of an aboriginal
12) Lola Montez (1962) - adaptation of the Australian musical
13) Pardon Miss Prescott (1959) - the Lola Montez team were hired to do an original musical for Channel Seven
14) Ballad of One Gun (1963) - another version of the Ned Kelly story with John Bell as Kelly
15) The First Joanna (1963) - adaption of play by Australian author Dorothy Blewett
16) The Tower (1965) - version of the Hal Porter play
17) Jenny (1962) - domestic drama, an original Australian work (I think)
18) Funnel Web (1963) - a man-tries-to-kill-wife tale with Grant Taylor in the lead
19) They Were Big, They Were Blue, They Were Beautiful (1959) - original Australian story about two people who get involved in a baby kidnapping
20) Shadow of a Pale Horse (1959) - another Australian-set script by Bruce Stewart which had been filmed in the US and Britain - this one about a murder in a small town
21) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1961) - Sumner Locke Elliot play, originally written for US TV but based on the Shark Arm murder
22) The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day (1961) - adaptation of the play by Peter Kenna
23) Rusty Bugles (1965) - Alan Burke's production of Sumner Lock Elliot's wartime play
24) The Swagman (1965) - controversial tale of a swagman, an early work from director Henri Safran
25) A Little South of Heaven (1961) - story by Ruth Park and D'Arcy Niland