Across the Bridge (Australian Playhouse)

"Across the Bridge"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 27
Directed byPat Alexander
Teleplay byLiane Keen
Original air date17 October 1966 (1966-10-17)
Running time30 mins
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"Across the Bridge" is the 27th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse.[1][2] "Across the Bridge" was written by Liane Keen and directed by Pat Alexander and originally aired on ABC on 17 October 1966.[3][4][5]

Plot

A man and a divorced woman who live alone in a houseover looking Sydney Harbour meet through the arrangement of mutual friends – and their few hours together open doorways to an understanding both deep and tenuous.[6]

Cast

Production

The episode was shot in Sydney.[5]

Reception

The Age said it "had a pretty thin and somewhat hackneyed theme, but two experienced and talented actors to interpret it."[7] Another reviewer from the same paper said the script "had a strong ring of truth."[8]

Filmink wrote "At times I could not help wondering if the actors were sending up the material... but this was a then-rare depiction of a divorced Australian mother in 1966, looking for love, slobbered over by predators, unsure of her place in the world. For that reason alone, Across the Bridge was worth making and broadcasting."[5]

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  3. ^ "Strangers Meet". The Age. 13 October 1966. p. 18.
  4. ^ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 October 1966. p. 17.
  5. ^ a b c Vagg, Stephen (2021). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: A Stay at Home and Across the Bridge". Filmink. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ Monitor (22 October 1966). "Australian TV needs good rationalising". The Age. p. 23.
  8. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 20 October 1966. p. 29.


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