The Air-Conditioned Author

"The Air Conditioned Author" was an episode of the television anthology drama Australian Playhouse.[2][3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

"The Air-Conditioned Author"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 3
Directed byHenri Safran
Teleplay byColin Free
Produced byDavid Goddard
Original air date2 May 1966 (Sydney, Melbourne)[1]
Running time30 mins
Guest appearance(s)
SMH ad from 1966

Plot

A novelist, Nicholas Lovatt, becomes disillusioned when his publisher urges him to turn out stereotyped novels.[5]

Cast
  • Richard Meikle as Nicholas Lovatt
  • Eric Reiman
  • Willie Fennell
  • Tony Ingersent
  • Sue Walker

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a comedy that missed because it lacked deft shaping".[6]

Tje Age called it "shapeless, disconnected and bumpy".[7]

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gollark: This actually works even for people who have studied physics a bit who get a question without convenient numbers; they fall back to Aristotlean mechanics a lot of the time.
gollark: People doing physics intuitively are *really bad* at it.
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See also
  • List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)

References
  1. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1966. p. 11.
  2. "TELEVISION Hindsight on 1966 viewing". The Canberra Times. 30 December 1966. p. 10. Retrieved 29 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "ABC's new drama series". Tribune (1459). New South Wales, Australia. 18 May 1966. p. 4. Retrieved 18 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 1966. p. 11.
  6. "Fuss and Confusion". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 May 1966. p. 16.
  7. Monitor (7 May 1966). "Television". The Age. p. 23.


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