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'''''Across the Bridge''''' is a 1966 Australian television play by Liane Keen. It was part of ''[[Australian Playhouse]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236347099 |title=Jap C.P. correspondent beaten up in Peking |newspaper=[[Tribune (Australian newspaper)|Tribune]] |issue=1480 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 October 1966 |accessdate=26 February 2019 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
'''''Across the Bridge''''' is a 1966 Australian television play by Liane Keen. It was part of ''[[Australian Playhouse]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236347099 |title=Jap C.P. correspondent beaten up in Peking |newspaper=[[Tribune (Australian newspaper)|Tribune]] |issue=1480 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 October 1966 |accessdate=26 February 2019 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & ‘60s|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
==Plot==
==Plot==
A man and a divorced woman meet through the arrangement of mutual friends - and their few hours together open doorways to an understanding both deep and tenuous.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106941258 |title=MONDAY |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=41 |issue=11,510 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=17 October 1966 |accessdate=26 February 2019 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
A man and a divorced woman who lives alone in a house over looking Sydney Harbour meet through the arrangement of mutual friends - and their few hours together open doorways to an understanding both deep and tenuous.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106941258 |title=MONDAY |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=41 |issue=11,510 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=17 October 1966 |accessdate=26 February 2019 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>


==Cast==
==Cast==
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*Susan Vaughan
*Susan Vaughan
*Paula Peters
*Paula Peters
==Reception==
*Alan Trevor
''The Age'' said it "had a pretty thin and somewhat hackneyed theme, but two experienced and talented actors to interpret it."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=22 October 1966|last=Monitor|page=23|title-Australian TV needs good rationalising}}</ref> Another reviewer from the same paper said the script "had a strong ring of truth."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=20 October 1966|page=29|title=Teletopics}}</ref>

==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 13:09, 28 June 2020

"Across the Bridge"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 26
Directed byPat Alexander
Teleplay byLiane Keen
Original air date17 October 1966[1]
Running time30 mins
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Across the Bridge is a 1966 Australian television play by Liane Keen. It was part of Australian Playhouse.[2][3]

Plot

A man and a divorced woman who lives alone in a house over looking Sydney Harbour meet through the arrangement of mutual friends - and their few hours together open doorways to an understanding both deep and tenuous.[4]

Cast

  • Carol Raye as the Woman
  • Alan Trevor as the Man
  • Tony Ingersent
  • Susan Vaughan
  • Paula Peters

Reception

The Age said it "had a pretty thin and somewhat hackneyed theme, but two experienced and talented actors to interpret it."[5] Another reviewer from the same paper said the script "had a strong ring of truth."[6]

References

  1. ^ "Strangers Meet". The Age. 13 October 1966. p. 18.
  2. ^ "Jap C.P. correspondent beaten up in Peking". Tribune. No. 1480. New South Wales, Australia. 12 October 1966. p. 11. Retrieved 26 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. ^ "MONDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 41, no. 11, 510. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 17 October 1966. p. 17. Retrieved 26 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Monitor (22 October 1966). The Age. p. 23. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Text "title-Australian TV needs good rationalising" ignored (help)
  6. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 20 October 1966. p. 29.


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