"The Prowler" | |
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Australian Playhouse episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 4 |
Directed by | Alan Burke |
Teleplay by | Pat Flower |
Original air date | 9 May 1966 |
Running time | 30 mins |
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"The Prowler" is the fourth television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . [1] [2] [3] "The Prowler" was written by Pat Flower and directed by Alan Burke and originally aired on ABC on 9 May 1966. [4]
A man, tired of hearing about his wife's dead first husband, decides to resurrect the man when rumours about a prowler begin to circulate. [5]
The Sydney Morning Herald critic called it "negligible and easily puffed up to pass half an hour at a fairly slow pace; but it was quite entertainingly watchable thanks to Miss Flower's clever way with turns of phrase true to suburban bickering" and some "beautifully relaxed and subtle comedy-acting of Stewart Ginn and Gwen Plumb." [6]
The Sunday The Sydney Morning Herald critic, who thought Flower's "The Tape Recorder" was "brilliant" called "The Prowler" "a miss". [7]
The Age said "the play was well acted and well produced; but it did not add up to anything. It felt as though I had been reading a novel and skipping page after page just to get to the story only to find that it had not been worth the trouble." [8]