Breakdown (TV play)

"Breakdown"
	Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 12
Teleplay by	Michael Boddy
Original air date	9 October 1967
Running time	30 mins

Breakdown is a 1967 Australian television play by Michael Boddy. It was an episode of Australian Playhouse. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[1]

Plot

The social machine breaks down — first in a late-night suburban train and second in an ancient lift. In both cases the man is faced with impenetrable and frightening problems.[2]

Cast

Max Meldrum
George Whaley

gollark: Same reason the melon vending machines don't work.

gollark: That was broken by claimflag permission changes or something.

gollark: Yet again, people insist on trying to run the rail system OUT OF SPEC.

gollark: But I worry that that sort of thing could sometimes lead to infinite loops.

gollark: The best thing I can come up with for now is to do the somewhat naive somewhat Factorio-style thing of tracking whether carts are currently using a segment of track (in the other direction), and if so forcing a reroute.

References

Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
"MONDAY". The Canberra Times. 42 (11, 814). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 October 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 27 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

Breakdown at AustLit

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[1] Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.

[2] "MONDAY". The Canberra Times. 42 (11, 814). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 October 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 27 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.