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

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.

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."

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

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."

See also

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

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.

External links

• "The Prowler" at AusStage
• "The Prowler" at AustLit
• "The Prowler" at IMDb

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