| Based On: | play The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder |
| Director: | Alan Burke |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Runtime: | 90 mins[1] |
| Released: | (Sydney)[2] |
| Released2: | (Melbourne)[3] |
The Skin of Our Teeth is a 1959 Australian television play based on the play by Thorton Wilder. It starred John Ewart.[4]
The story of life on Earth as lived by Mr and Mrs Antrobus, and their two children - and their maid, Sabina.
The film was directed by Alan Burke who had directed a production of Skin of Our Teeth on stage in Canberra in 1953[5] and had spent a day talking to Wilder in the US at the latter's New Haven home.[6] Burke had met him through a letter of introduction while on a UNESCO scholarship. Burke considered the meeting with Wilder one of the most important of his life.[7]
"He is the most knowledgeable man I've ever met," said Burke. "He is a great humanist and has great faith in mankind."[8]
Two sets were used, one for the Antrobus house the other for Atlantic City boardwalk.[9]
Burke said although the play had "tiny ratings... it represented the big break-through in the production of television plays."[10]