Slow Poison (Australian Playhouse)

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"Slow Poison"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 2
Directed by Oscar Whitbread
Teleplay by Allan Trevor
Original air date22 April 1967 (1967-04-22)
Running time30 mins
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"Slow Poison" is the second television play episode of the second season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . "Slow Poison" was produced in Melbourne by Oscar Whitbread, written by Allan Trevor. [1] and originally aired on ABC on 22 April 1967, 19 June 1967 in Melbourne [2] and 31 July 1967 in Canberra>. [3]

Contents

Plot

A columnist Tim Douglas loses his job and friends.

Cast

Reception

The Age said it had "a well developed central character" where "Allan Trevor produced a workmanlike script and Oscar Whitbread treated it well with some light touches." [2]

Another viewer from the same paper said it "went septic in the production department and fell on its face elsewhere. Ray Taylor was less than impressive... We know we have good actors and producers... but where are the dramatists?" [4]

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References

  1. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink .
  2. 1 2 Gillison, Ann (19 June 1967). "In the Wrong Time Spot". The Age . p. 4.
  3. "New series on 3". The Canberra Times . Vol. 41, no. 11, 754. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 31 July 1967. p. 13. Retrieved 27 February 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Teletopics". The Age . 22 June 1967. p. 9.