The Lace Counter
| "The Lace Counter" | |
|---|---|
| Australian Playhouse episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 24 |
| Teleplay by | Pat Flower |
| Original air date | 26 September 1966 |
| Running time | 30 mins |
"The Lace Counter" is the 24th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse. "The Lace Counter" was written by Pat Flower and originally aired on ABC on 26 September 1966.[1][2]
Plot[]
Miss Peach and Mrs Plum, meet across the Lace counter in a department store and discover that both sides of the counter yield elusive truths.[3]
Cast[]
- Ruth Cracknell as Miss Peach
- Aileen Britton as Mrs Plum
- Noel Brophy as Mr Prune
Production[]
Flower originally wrote this and Easy Terms for Robin Lovejoy's lunchtime theatre program. This program folded before Lovejoy even read them but once he did he recommended them to the ABC and Crowley became the main contributing writer to season one of Australian Playhouse.[4] It was shot in Sydney.[5]
Reception[]
The Age gave it a poor review.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Untitled". The Canberra Times. Vol. 41, no. 11, 492. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 September 1966. p. 15. Retrieved 25 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 September 1966. p. 17.
- ^ John Haynes and J.F. Archibald. The Bulletin http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-674384379. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) - ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 20 September 1966. p. 27.
- ^ "ABC Playhouse has a winner". The Age. 1 October 1966. p. 23.
External links[]
 | This article about a television episode is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- 1966 television plays
- 1966 Australian television episodes
- 1960s Australian television plays
- Australian Playhouse (season 1) episodes
- Television episode stubs