"The Parking Ticket" is the 12th

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episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series ''

Australian Playhouse ''Australian Playhouse'' was an Australian anthology TV series featuring the work of Australian writers. It ran for two series consisting of 40 episodes. Among the featured productions were works by Pat Flower who was the main writer havi ...

''. "The Parking Ticket" was written by Max Colwell and Michael Wright and directed by

Henri Safran Henri Safran (born 7 October 1932) is a Paris-born director who worked extensively in Australia. He worked in French television, then in Britain, before moving to Australia in 1960 to work with the ABC. He became an Australian citizen in 1963 but ...

and originally aired on

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on 4 July 1966.

Plot

Bob Rankin receives a parking ticket and discovers he lives in a world of aggressive inspectors. The father of a man who has seduced a young woman is given a ticket by the father of the girl.

Cast

Stewart Ginn Stewart Ginn (born 2 June 1949) is an Australian professional golfer. Early life Ginn was born in Melbourne. He grew up behind the twelfth green of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Early in his life "he used to caddy at Royal Melbourne." He th ...

as the boys father *

Lynne Murphy M. Lynne Murphy is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex. She runs the blog ''Separated by a Common Language'' under the username Lynneguist, and has written five books. She received a grant from the NEH Public Scholars Program ...

as Muriel * Shirley MacDonald as Vi * Charles Little as the boy Denis *

Carmen Duncan Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian-born stage and screen actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally in the United States that spanned over 50 years. She was nominated for the AFI Award ...

Willie Fennell William John Fennell (20 January 1920 – 9 September 1992) was an Australian radio, television (serials and mini-series), stage and film actor, comedian, producer, radio scriptwriter and writer who appeared in many Australian television s ...

as Steve

Reception

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'' said it provides "both humour and drama." ''

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'' called it "a gem".

References

External links

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