| Series: | Australian Playhouse |
| Season: | 1 |
| Episode: | 6 |
| Director: | Eric Taylor |
| Teleplay: | Oriel Grey |
| Producer: | David Goddard |
| Length: | 30 mins |
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| Prev: | No Dogs on Diamond Street |
| Next: | Getting Along with the Government |
"Wall to Wall" is the sixth television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse.[1] [2] "Wall to Wall" was written by Ann Kinloch and directed by Eric Taylor and originally aired on ABC on 23 May 1966[3] [4] It starred Gwen Plumb and was shot in Sydney.[5]
Elizabeth Fletcher reflects on her lonely life on her birthday. She remembers her one chance at romance, several years previously. She goes to a dance where a man pities her and takes her home, where he is "trapped" by her father.[6]
The play had originally been written by Adelaide writer Ann Kinloch for a 1962 competition for Channel Nine drama. However it was not used, the studio making The Valley of Water instead.[7]
The Sydney Morning Herald thought "the dialogue is so soften stilted and at times too obvious and the author's intentions towards characters or actions are frequently obscure so that after a while one waits for the end in the hope - this time unavailing - that something can be made out of it all."[8]
The Age called it "a bad play... embarrassing as it bellowed and whimpered through a predictable pattern of trite tragedies."[9] Another reviewer in the same paper called it "one of the poorest of the series. The script might have been written by a schoolboy."[10]
The Sunday The Sydney Morning Herald said Gwen Plumg "gets out nod for the week's finest performance" for her work in the show.[11]
The Bulletin called the play "the silliest of all" the episodes of the series.[12]