"The Prowler"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 4
Directed byAlan Burke
Teleplay byPat Flower
Produced byDavid Goddard
Original air date9 May 1966 (1966-05-09)
Running time30 mins
Guest appearances

"The Prowler" is the fourth television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse.[1][2][3] "The Prowler" was written by Pat Flower and directed by Alan Burke and originally aired on ABC on 9 May 1966.[4]

Plot

A man, tired of hearing about his wife's dead first husband, decides to resurrect the man when rumours about a prowler begin to circulate.[5]

Cast

  • Gwen Plumb as Elsie Hopewell
  • Stewart Ginn as her husband Fred
  • Judith Champ as Jean Thurston
  • Roger Box as Morgan Thurston
  • Anthony Thurbon as detective

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald critic called it "negligible and easily puffed up to pass half an hour at a fairly slow pace; but it was quite entertainingly watchable thanks to Miss Flower's clever way with turns of phrase true to suburban bickering" and some "beautifully relaxed and subtle comedy-acting of Stewart Ginn and Gwen Plumb."[6]

The Sunday The Sydney Morning Herald critic, who thought Flower's "The Tape Recorder" was "brilliant" called "The Prowler" "a miss".[7]

The Age said "the play was well acted and well produced; but it did not add up to anything. It felt as though I had been reading a novel and skipping page after page just to get to the story only to find that it had not been worth the trouble."[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "MONDAY". The Canberra Times. 9 May 1966. p. 19. Retrieved 29 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "CANBERRA REPERTORY Germany's most disputed play". The Canberra Times. Vol. 40, no. 11, 459. 4 May 1966. p. 23. Retrieved 9 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. ↑ "The Prowler". The Age. 5 May 1966. p. 14.
  5. ↑ "TV Guide". The Age. 5 May 1966. p. 17.
  6. ↑ "Comedy with a Light Touch". The Sydney Morning Herald. 10 May 1966. p. 16.
  7. ↑ Marshall, Valda (22 May 1966). "Two hits and a miss". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 82.
  8. ↑ Monitor (14 May 1966). "Disappointing TV Play". The Age. p. 23.


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