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==Plot==
==Plot==
Mr Caradoc finds that the eternal triangle contains problems of unexpected dimensions.
Mr Caradoc finds that the eternal triangle contains problems of unexpected dimensions. He is a business executive who divides his time between his wife and three mistresses.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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==Reception==
==Reception==
''[[The Age]]'' said "it had a confidence, a sureness missing in the other productions of this lamentable series."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Tv1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=819%2C2537620|date=14 September 1967|title=Teletopics|page=9}}</ref>
''[[The Age]]'' said "it had a confidence, a sureness missing in the other productions of this lamentable series."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Tv1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=819%2C2537620|date=14 September 1967|title=Teletopics|page=9}}</ref>

[[Gordon Chater]] wrote a letter of complaint to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board about the show calling it a "parade of pornography".<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Times|title=Bedroom scenes play really rocked Chater|date=25 October 1967|page=1}}</ref>
==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of live television plays broadcast on ABC (1950–1969)]]
*[[List of live television plays broadcast on ABC (1950–1969)]]

Revision as of 13:57, 8 October 2020

"The Five Sided Triangle"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 13
Directed byBrian Faull
Teleplay byBrian Faull
Produced byBrian Faull
Original air date16 October 1967 (Sydney)[1]
Running time30 mins
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The Five Sided Triangle is a 1967 television play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was the last in the Australian Playhouse series and was based on a script by Brian Faull.[2][3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

Plot

Mr Caradoc finds that the eternal triangle contains problems of unexpected dimensions. He is a business executive who divides his time between his wife and three mistresses.

Cast

Reception

The Age said "it had a confidence, a sureness missing in the other productions of this lamentable series."[5]

Gordon Chater wrote a letter of complaint to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board about the show calling it a "parade of pornography".[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 16 October 1967. p. 17.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ "MONDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 42, no. 11, 820. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 16 October 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 28 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 14 September 1967. p. 9.
  6. ^ "Bedroom scenes play really rocked Chater". TV Times. 25 October 1967. p. 1.