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"Easy Terms"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 28
Teleplay by Pat Flower
Original air date24 October 1966 (1966-10-24)
Running time30 mins
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"Easy Terms" is the 28th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . "Easy Terms" was written by Pat Flower and originally aired on ABC on 24 October 1966.

Contents

Plot

For the smallest weekly payment, Miranda Vane can buy peace, truth and status, only to discover the hard sell stems from husband and salesman alike. [1]

Cast

Production

Flower originally wrote this and "The Lace Counter" 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 . [2] The play was shot in Melbourne with sets designed by Trevor Ling. [3]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald critic accused it and Marleen of having "hollow nothingness." [4]

The Sydney Morning Herald said "This was Miss Flower's sixth or seventh in the series — even the faithful have lost count — and it only increased the wonder at how her scripts are accepted so frequently. Set in an "op" art flat crammed with sterile bad taste, the characters were creatures who could not exist. They endlessly gave smart chatter such as: "Kiddies are only an afterthought" . . "My husband may pop off with a popsie" . . . "We can make our own earth here in Heaven." A sermon on the folly of selling one's soul for trashy possessions may have lurked there — may have, but who wants a sermon in a playhouse?" [5]

The Canberra Times said "there cannot be very many viewers left these days for the Australian Playhouse series on ABC, which has rapidly become The Pat Flower Show... "Easy Terms" makes a grand total for the authoress of nine out of twenty-eight, which is over thirty-two per cent. No one, I am sure, would be even inclined to comment and everyone would wish her luck if they were becoming more and more entertaining, but a play like "Easy Terms", a creaking study of possession-culture "fantacised", was surely more suitable fora select audience in experimental Jane St. Theatre, Kensington, than for general entertainment." [6]

The Age called it a "plotless, formless hunk of tripe" in which "the actors went on just mouthing words." [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald . 24 October 1966. p. 13.
  2. ↑ Hersey, April (3 December 1966). "Picking the Flowers". The Bulletin . p. 46. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Drama's flat setting pop art". The Age . 20 October 1966. p. 29.
  4. ↑ "The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "On Television". The Sydney Morning Herald . 25 October 1966. p. 14.
  6. ↑ "That silent report". The Canberra Times . Vol. 41, no. 11, 520. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 October 1966. p. 15. Retrieved 25 February 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ Monitor (29 October 1966). "The President on TV". The Age . p. 23.
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