The Lace Counter
| "The Lace Counter" | |
|---|---|
| Australian Playhouse episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 23 |
| Teleplay by | Pat Flower |
| Original air date | 26 September 1966 |
| Running time | 30 mins |
The Lace Counter is a 1966 Australian television play. It was an episode of Australian Playhouse. It was written by Pat Flower and aired on 26 September 1966.[1][2]
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
- Ruth Cracknell as Miss Peach
- Aileen Britton
- Noel Brophy
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]
References
- ^ "No title". 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.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 September 1966. p. 17.
- ^ The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 23 March 2019
- ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 20 September 1966. p. 27.
- ^ "ABC Playhouse has a winner". The Age. 1 October 1966. p. 23.
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