The Air-Conditioned Author

"The Air Conditioned Author" was an episode of the television anthology drama Australian Playhouse.[2][3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4][5]

"The Air-Conditioned Author"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 3
Directed byHenri Safran
Teleplay byColin Free
Produced byDavid Goddard
Original air date2 May 1966 (Sydney, Melbourne)[1]
Running time30 mins
Guest appearance(s)

Plot

A novelist, Nicholas Lovatt, becomes disillusioned when his publisher urges him to turn out stereotyped novels.[6]

Cast

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a comedy that missed because it lacked deft shaping".[7]

Tje The Age called it "shapeless, disconnected and bumpy".[8]

See also

  • List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)

References

  1. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1966. p. 11.
  2. "TELEVISION Hindsight on 1966 viewing". The Canberra Times. 30 December 1966. p. 10. Retrieved 29 July 2015 via National Library of Australia.
  3. "ABC's new drama series". Tribune (1459). New South Wales, Australia. 18 May 1966. p. 4. Retrieved 18 February 2019 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. "Yes there are writers in Australia". TV Times. 18 May 1966. p. 8.
  6. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1966. p. 11.
  7. "Fuss and Confusion". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 May 1966. p. 16.
  8. Monitor (7 May 1966). "Television". The Age. p. 23.


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