Migrating from his native Canada to take up his responsibilities with ABC, Sydney Newman objected to the basis of British television drama at the time he arrived:"The only legitimate theatre was of the 'anyone for tennis' variety, which, on the whole, presented a condescending view of working-class people. Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes. I said 'Damn the upper classes - they don't even own televisions!'"He converted "Armchair Theatre" into a vehicle for the generation of "Angry Young Men" that was emerging after John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger" (1956) had become a great success, although older writers such as Ted Willis were not excluded. Willis' 1958 play "Hot Summer Night" (1 February 1959) was adapted to shift its focus, from an unhappy marriage of parents in the original stage version, onto their daughter's mixed-race relationship with a Jamaican man and the problems they might face if they got married. It was one of the earliest British television plays to have race as a theme.