"Point of Departure" is a 1966 Australian television film.^[2] It screened as part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.^[3] "Point of Departure" aired on 22 June 1966 in Sydney,^[4] on 29 June 1966 in Melbourne,^[5][6] and on 27 July 1966 in Brisbane.^[7]

It was one of three plays put on by the ABC to commemorate 2,500 years of Greek theatre.^[8]

A boy and a girl meet in a small provincial town at the beginning of German occupation in World War II.

• Ross Thompson as Orpheus
• Liza Goddard as Eurydice
• Tom Oliver
• Patricia Hill
• Raymond Westwell
• Diana Davidson
• James Condon

Ross Thompson had previously been in The Pigeon for Australian Playhouse. He and Goddard had acted in a scene together in They're a Weird Mob. Point of Departure had a cast of fifteen.^[7]

The Sydney Morning Herald write that Ross Thompson's "sensitive and convincing acting made the best of the obvious weaknesses in the plot itself."^[9]

Filmink thought " maybe this is the sort of play that works best on stage, with its slightly fantastical nature and hopping around in time and place."^[8]

• "Point of Departure" at IMDb

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