The Story of Good Will is a 1959 Australian TV play. It was a pantomime produced for Christmas Eve and was Australia's first television pantomime.
The same night the ABC broadcast a nativity play The House by the Stable.
Plot In the land of Christmas Country, the King has banned Merry Christmasses. Good Will, the only man who knows how to make Merry Christmasses, has disappeared, s Princess Merry asks Jan the Gardener (a Prince in disguise) to help find him.
Cast Robyn Hosking as the Queen Brian Fitzsimmons as the King Barbara Frawley as the Princess Earle Cross as Jan the Gardner John Tasker as don't-ask-me Reg Quartly as dragon
Production It was filmed at the ABC's studios in Gore Hill and featured stars of the ABC TV's Children's Club. The pantomime had been written two years earlier.
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