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| airdate = 23 May 1966<ref>{{cite news|date=19 May 1966|title=TV Guide|page=35|newspaper=The Age}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=23 May 1966|title=TV Guide|page=17|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref>
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==Plot==
==Plot==
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>
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.<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==
==Cast==
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*David Yorston as the Young Man
*David Yorston as the Young Man
*Lyndall Barbour as Mrs Fletcher
*Lyndall Barbour as Mrs Fletcher
*Gwen Plumb ass the next door neighbour Mrs Cooper
*[[Gwen Plumb]] as the next door neighbour Mrs Cooper


==Background==
==Background==
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==Reception==
==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>
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 unavailing - that something can be made out of it all."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Suburban Troubles on TV|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>


''The Age'' called it "a bad play... embarassing."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9v5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6995%2C4566074|title=Teletopics|newspaper=The Age|date=26 May 1966|page=14}}</ref>
''The Age'' called it "a bad play... embarassing as it bellowed and whimpered through a predictable pattern of trite tragedies."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9v5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6995%2C4566074|title=Teletopics|newspaper=The Age|date=26 May 1966|page=14}}</ref> Another reviewer in the same paper called it "one of the poorest of the series. The script might have been written by a schoolboy."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=28 May 1966|page=23|title=Violence both real and synthetic|last=Monitor}}</ref>

The Sunday ''Sydney Morning Herald'' said Gwen Plumg "gets out nod for the week's finest performance" for her work in the show.<ref>{{cite news|first=Valda|last=Marshall|date=29 May 1966|page=72|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Showbusiness}}</ref>


The ''Bulletin'' called the play "the silliest of all" the episodes of the series.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Bulletin|page=51|title=TELEVISION Neither Deft Nor Delightful |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-689291022|date=4 June 1966|first=Frank|last=Roberts}}</ref>
The ''Bulletin'' called the play "the silliest of all" the episodes of the series.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Bulletin|page=51|title=TELEVISION Neither Deft Nor Delightful |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-689291022|date=4 June 1966|first=Frank|last=Roberts}}</ref>

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"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[1][2]
Running time30 mins
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Wall to Wall is an episode of the Australian anthology drama series Australian Playhouse.[3]

It was written by Ann Kincloch and produced by Eric Taylor. It starred Gwen Plumb and was shot in Sydney.[4]

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.[5]

Cast

  • Heather Christie as Elizabeth Fletcher
  • Don Crosby as Mr Fletcher
  • David Yorston as the Young Man
  • Lyndall Barbour as Mrs Fletcher
  • Gwen Plumb as 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.[6]

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 unavailing - that something can be made out of it all."[7]

The Age called it "a bad play... embarassing as it bellowed and whimpered through a predictable pattern of trite tragedies."[8] Another reviewer in the same paper called it "one of the poorest of the series. The script might have been written by a schoolboy."[9]

The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald said Gwen Plumg "gets out nod for the week's finest performance" for her work in the show.[10]

The Bulletin called the play "the silliest of all" the episodes of the series.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 19 May 1966. p. 35.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 May 1966. p. 17.
  3. ^ "TELEVISION Helping selfidentification". The Canberra Times. 27 May 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 5 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. ^ "Anguish in Suburbia". =The Age. p. 18.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  6. ^ Heading, Rex (1996). Miracle on Tynte Street: The Channel Nine Story. Wakefield Press.
  7. ^ "Suburban Troubles on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 May 1966. p. 7.
  8. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 26 May 1966. p. 14.
  9. ^ Monitor (28 May 1966). "Violence both real and synthetic". The Age. p. 23.
  10. ^ Marshall, Valda (29 May 1966). "Showbusiness". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 72.
  11. ^ Roberts, Frank (4 June 1966). "TELEVISION Neither Deft Nor Delightful". The Bulletin. p. 51.


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