The Lace Counter

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"The Lace Counter"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 24
Teleplay by Pat Flower
Original air date26 September 1966 (1966-09-26)
Running time30 mins
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"The Lace Counter" is the 24th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . "The Lace Counter" was written by Pat Flower and originally aired on ABC on 26 September 1966. [1] [2]

Contents

Plot

Miss Peach and Mrs Plum, meet across the Lace counter in a department store and discover that both sides of the counter yield elusive truths. [3]

Cast

Production

Flower originally wrote this and Easy Terms 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 . [4] It was shot in Sydney. [5]

Reception

The Age gave it a poor review. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Untitled". The Canberra Times . Vol. 41, no. 11, 492. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 September 1966. p. 15. Retrieved 25 February 2019– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink .
  3. ↑ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald . 26 September 1966. p. 17.
  4. ↑ John Haynes; J.F. Archibald. "Vol. 88 No. 4526 (3 Dec 1966)". The Bulletin . Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age . 20 September 1966. p. 27.
  6. ↑ "ABC Playhouse has a winner". The Age . 1 October 1966. p. 23.


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