The Air-Conditioned Author

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"The Air-Conditioned Author"
Australian Playhouse episode
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Episode no.Season 1
Episode 3
Directed by Henri Safran
Teleplay by Colin Free
Original air date2 May 1966 (1966-05-02)
Running time30 mins
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"The Air Conditioned Author" is the third television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . [1] [2] "The Air Conditioned Author" was written by Colin Free and directed by Henri Safran and originally aired on ABC on 2 May 1966. [3]

Contents

Plot

A novelist, Nicholas Lovatt, becomes disillusioned when his publisher urges him to turn out stereotyped novels. [4]

Cast

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a comedy that missed because it lacked deft shaping". [5]

The Age called it "shapeless, disconnected and bumpy". [6]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "TELEVISION Hindsight on 1966 viewing". The Canberra Times . 30 December 1966. p. 10. Retrieved 29 July 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "ABC's new drama series". Tribune . No. 1459. New South Wales, Australia. 18 May 1966. p. 4. Retrieved 18 February 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald . 2 May 1966. p. 11.
  4. ↑ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1966. p. 11.
  5. ↑ "Fuss and Confusion". The Sydney Morning Herald . 3 May 1966. p. 16.
  6. ↑ Monitor (7 May 1966). "Television". The Age . p. 23.


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