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'''''Wall to Wall''''' is an episode of the Australian anthology drama series ''[[Australian Playhouse]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131775353 |title=TELEVISION Helping selfidentification. |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=27 May 1966 |accessdate=5 August 2015 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
'''''Wall to Wall''''' is an episode of the Australian anthology drama series ''[[Australian Playhouse]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131775353 |title=TELEVISION Helping selfidentification. |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=27 May 1966 |accessdate=5 August 2015 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>


It was written by Ann Kincloch and produced by Eric Taylor. It starred [[Gwen Plumb]].<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19660524&id=I6BWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1020,7186440&hl=en Sydney Morning Herald review]</ref>
It was written by Ann Kincloch and produced by Eric Taylor. It starred [[Gwen Plumb]] and was shot in Sydney.

==Plot==
==Plot==
Elizabeth Fletcher reflects on her lonely life.<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19660519&id=8P5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3556,3309759&hl=en</ref>
Elizabeth Fletcher reflects on her lonely life on her birthday.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper==The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19660519&id=8P5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3556,3309759&hl=en|title=Anguish in Suburbia|page=18}}</ref>
==Cast==
*Heather Christie as Elizabeth Fletcher
*Don Crosby as Mr Fletcher
*David Yorston as the Young Man
*Lyndall Barbour as Mrs Fletcher
*Gwen Plumb ass the next door neighbour Mrs Cooper


==Background==
==Background==
The play had originally been written for a 1962 competition for Channel Nine drama. However it was not used, the studio making ''[[The Valley of Water]]'' instead.<ref>https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Pd12f3V9c9UC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22wall+to+wall%22+%22anne+kinloch%22&source=bl&ots=7bGJgXhjFp&sig=jXLRntfWIKLxfeWPZ0N571eKJ9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC0Q6AEwA2oVChMI44OIy_iQxwIVBx6mCh1A-gMK#v=onepage&q=%22wall%20to%20wall%22%20%22anne%20kinloch%22&f=false</ref>
The play had originally been written for a 1962 competition for Channel Nine drama. However it was not used, the studio making ''[[The Valley of Water]]'' instead.<ref>{{cite book|title=Miracle on Tynte Street: The Channel Nine Story|first=Rex|last= Heading|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Pd12f3V9c9UC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22wall+to+wall%22+%22anne+kinloch%22&source=bl&ots=7bGJgXhjFp&sig=jXLRntfWIKLxfeWPZ0N571eKJ9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC0Q6AEwA2oVChMI44OIy_iQxwIVBx6mCh1A-gMK#v=onepage&q=%22wall%20to%20wall%22%20%22anne%20kinloch%22&f=false|publisher=Wakefield Press|year=1996 }}</ref>
==Reception==
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' thought "the dialogue is so soften stitled 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 unavailaling - that something can be made out of it all."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Top Forty Fades|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19660524&id=I6BWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IOcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1020,7186440&hl=en|date=24 May 1966|page=7}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 23:51, 28 February 2019

"Wall to Wall"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 6
Directed byEric Taylor
Teleplay byAnn Kinloch
Produced byDavid Goddard
Original air date23 May 1966
Running time30 mins
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Wall to Wall is an episode of the Australian anthology drama series Australian Playhouse.[1]

It was written by Ann Kincloch and produced by Eric Taylor. It starred Gwen Plumb and was shot in Sydney.

Plot

Elizabeth Fletcher reflects on her lonely life on her birthday.[2]

Cast

  • Heather Christie as Elizabeth Fletcher
  • Don Crosby as Mr Fletcher
  • David Yorston as the Young Man
  • Lyndall Barbour as Mrs Fletcher
  • Gwen Plumb ass the next door neighbour Mrs Cooper

Background

The play had originally been written for a 1962 competition for Channel Nine drama. However it was not used, the studio making The Valley of Water instead.[3]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald thought "the dialogue is so soften stitled 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 unavailaling - that something can be made out of it all."[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "TELEVISION Helping selfidentification". The Canberra Times. 27 May 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 5 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Anguish in Suburbia". =The Age. p. 18.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. ^ Heading, Rex (1996). Miracle on Tynte Street: The Channel Nine Story. Wakefield Press.
  4. ^ "Top Forty Fades". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 May 1966. p. 7.


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