Wall to Wall (Australian Playhouse)

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"Wall to Wall"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 6
Directed byEric Taylor
Teleplay byOriel Grey
Original air date23 May 1966 (1966-05-23)
Running time30 mins
Guest appearances
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"Wall to Wall" is the sixth television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse . [1] [2] "Wall to Wall" was written by Ann Kinloch and directed by Eric Taylor and originally aired on ABC on 23 May 1966 [3] [4] It starred Gwen Plumb and was shot in Sydney. [5]

Contents

Plot

Elizabeth Fletcher reflects on her lonely life on her birthday. She remembers her one chance at romance, several years previously. She goes to a dance where a man pities her and takes her home, where he is "trapped" by her father. [6]

Cast

Background

The play had originally been written by Adelaide writer Ann Kinloch for a 1962 competition for Channel Nine drama. However it was not used, the studio making The Valley of Water instead. [7]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald thought "the dialogue is so soften stilted and at times too obvious and the author's intentions towards characters or actions are frequently obscure so that after a while one waits for the end in the hope - this time unavailing - that something can be made out of it all." [8]

The Age called it "a bad play... embarrassing as it bellowed and whimpered through a predictable pattern of trite tragedies." [9] Another reviewer in the same paper called it "one of the poorest of the series. The script might have been written by a schoolboy." [10]

The Sunday The Sydney Morning Herald said Gwen Plumg "gets out nod for the week's finest performance" for her work in the show. [11]

The Bulletin called the play "the silliest of all" the episodes of the series. [12]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "TELEVISION Helping selfidentification". The Canberra Times . 27 May 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 5 August 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Yes there are writers in Australia". TV Times . 18 May 1966. p. 9.
  3. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age . 19 May 1966. p. 35.
  4. ↑ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald . 23 May 1966. p. 17.
  5. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink .
  6. ↑ "Anguish in Suburbia". The Age . p. 18.
  7. ↑ Heading, Rex (1996). Miracle on Tynte Street: The Channel Nine Story. Wakefield Press. ISBN   9781862543904.
  8. ↑ "Suburban Troubles on TV". The Sydney Morning Herald . 24 May 1966. p. 7.
  9. ↑ "Teletopics". The Age . 26 May 1966. p. 14.
  10. ↑ Monitor (28 May 1966). "Violence both real and synthetic". The Age . p. 23.
  11. ↑ Marshall, Valda (29 May 1966). "Showbusiness". The Sydney Morning Herald . p. 72.
  12. ↑ Roberts, Frank (4 June 1966). "TELEVISION Neither Deft Nor Delightful". The Bulletin . p. 51.


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