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"The Parking Ticket"
Australian Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 12
Directed byEric Taylor
Teleplay byMax Colwell
Michael Wright
Original air date4 July 1966[1]
Running time30 mins[2]
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The Parking Ticket is a 1966 television play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was part of Australian Playhouse.

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3]

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 as the boys father
  • Lynne Murphy and Shirley MacDonald as the mothers
  • Charles Little as the boy
  • Carmen Duncan
  • Willie Fennell

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said it provides "both humour and drama."[4]

The Age called it "a gem".[5]

References

  1. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 July 1966. p. 22.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. p. 22.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. ^ Darlington, Dorothy (5 July 1966). "The humour and drama". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 12.
  5. ^ Template:Cite newspaper=The Age

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