Mirage - the play (1928)

A one-act play by Dora Taylor, member of the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society, it tells the story of a man and a woman whose philandering is interrupted by a visitor whose presence turns out to be catalytic.

First performed by the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society at the Hiddingh Hall on 29th October, 1928.

Sources

The Mime, 1(3), Dec 1928.

Mirage - the French TV series (1967-1970)

The Knights of the Sky or The Adventures of Tanguy and Laverdure

The story about two fighter pilots, Tanguy and Laverdure, the original French series, Les Chevaliers du ciel ("The Knights of the Sky") is a French television series in 39 episodes of 26 minutes, created by Jean-Michel Charlier, based on the comic strip The Adventures of Tanguy and Laverdure drawn by Albert Uderzo. Produced in 1967 the series was broadcast by the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française[1] from 1967-1970. (In 2005 a film of the same name, based on the series was made by Gérard Pirès, was released.)[2]

In 1976 the French series was dubbed into Afrikaans and broadcast on SABC TV1 in the first year of television in South Africa, going on for 3 seasons (39 episodes). (The series was also dubbed into English as The Aeronauts for the UK market.)