"The Lace Counter" is the 24th

television play A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape. This is in contrast to a television movi ...

episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series '' Australian Playhouse''. "The Lace Counter" was written by

Pat Flower Patricia Mary Byson Flower (23 February 1914 – 2 September 1977) was an English Australian writer of plays, television plays and novels. Biography She was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England and moved to Australia with her family in 1928. She or ...

and originally aired on

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on 26 September 1966.

Plot

Miss Peach and Mrs Plum, meet across the Lace counter in a department store and discover that both sides of the counter yield elusive truths.

Cast

* Ruth Cracknell as Miss Peach *

Aileen Britton Aileen Britton (18 February 1916 in Sydney – 19 April 1986) credited also as Aileen Britain, was an Australian character actress of theatre, radio, television, and film (TV movie and theatrical), with a career in the industry spanning nearly 5 ...

as Mrs Plum * Noel Brophy as Mr Prune

Production

Flower originally wrote this and ''

Easy Terms "Easy Terms" is the 28th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series ''Australian Playhouse''. "Easy Terms" was written by Pat Flower and originally aired on ABC on 24 October 1966. Plot For the smal ...

'' for

Robin Lovejoy Robin Casper Lovejoy, OBE (17 December 1924 – 14 December 1985) was an Australian director, actor, and designer best known for his work on television and in theatre. He was one of Australia's leading theatre directors of the 1960s and 197 ...

's lunchtime theatre program. This program folded before Lovejoy even read them but once he did he recommended them to the ABC and Crowley became the main contributing writer to season one of '' Australian Playhouse''. It was shot in Sydney.

Reception

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'' gave it a poor review.

References

External links

* * 1966 television plays 1966 Australian television episodes 1960s Australian television plays Australian Playhouse season 1 episodes Works by Pat Flower {{tv-episode-stub