Casualty (TV play)

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"Casualty"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 3
Directed by Storry Walton
Teleplay byJohn Croyston
Original air dates3 July 1967 (Melbourne) [1]
7 August 1967 (Sydney) [2]
Running time30 mins
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"Casualty" is a 1967 Australian television play by John Croyston. It aired as part of Australian Playhouse . [3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. [4]

Contents

Premise

A story centered around a hospital waiting room.

Cast

Reception

A reviewer in The Age called it "a waste of viewing time". [5]

Another writer in that paper called it "stylised". [6]

The Sydney Morning Herald complained about Croyston's "airy fairy artsy farsty script". [7]

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References

  1. "TV Guide". The Age. 29 June 1967. p. 15.
  2. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 August 1967. p. 6.
  3. "MONDAY". The Canberra Times . 41 (11, 760). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 August 1967. p. 15. Retrieved 27 February 2019 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. Gillson, Ann (5 July 1967). "The Secret of Hunter". The Age. p. 6.
  6. "Teletopics". The Age. 14 September 1967. p. 9.
  7. Covell, Roger (19 August 1967). "problem for the quintet". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 11.