Casualty (Australian Playhouse)

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"Casualty"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 3
Directed by Storry Walton
Teleplay byJohn Croyston
Original air date3 July 1967 (1967-07-03)
Running time30 mins
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"Casualty" is the third television play episode of the second season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . [1] "Casualty" was written by John Croyston and originally aired on ABC on 3 July 1967 in Melbourne [2] and on 7 August 1967 in Sydney. [3]

Contents

Premise

A story centered around a hospital waiting room.

Cast

Reception

A reviewer in The Age called it "a waste of viewing time". [4]

Another writer in that paper called it "stylised". [5]

The Sydney Morning Herald complained about Croyston's "airy fairy artsy farsty script". [6]

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References

  1. "MONDAY". The Canberra Times . Vol. 41, no. 11, 760. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 August 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 27 February 2019 via National Library of Australia.
  2. "TV Guide". The Age . 29 June 1967. p. 15.
  3. "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald . 6 August 1967. p. 6.
  4. Gillson, Ann (5 July 1967). "The Secret of Hunter". The Age . p. 6.
  5. "Teletopics". The Age . 14 September 1967. p. 9.
  6. Covell, Roger (19 August 1967). "problem for the quintet". The Sydney Morning Herald . p. 11.