Episode of Australian Playhouse. Based on a script by Pat Flower, who had written The Tape Recorder.
Premise
Fred, tired of hearing about his wife Elsie's dead first husband Harry, decides to resurrect the man when rumours about a prowler begin to circulate.
Cast
- Gwen Plumb as Elsie Hopewell
- Stewart Ginn as her husband Fred
- Judith Champ as Jean Thurston
- Roger Box as Morgan Thurston
- Anthony Thurbon as detective
Production
It was directed by Alan Burke and written by Pat Flower. According to ABC records it was filmed on 8 Dec 1965.
Burke told Graham Shirley "Prowler and The House were moderate, not worth any discussion, half hour plays quite nice...They’re unimportant little productions, they were nice and they were interesting. "
The floor managed was Tom Jeffrey. He'd just returned from England where he'd been producing and was not happy to return to floor managing.
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald critic called it "negligible and easily puffed up to pass half an hour at a fairly slow pace; but it was quite entertainingly watchable thanks to Miss Flower's clever way with turns of phrase true to suburban bickering" and some "beautifully relaxed and subtle comedy-acting of Stewart Ginn and Gwen Plumb."
The Sunday Sydney Morning Herald critic, who thought Flower's The Tape Recorder was "brilliant" called The Prowler "a miss".
The Age said "the play was well acted and well produced; but it did not add up to anything. It felt as though I had been reading a novel and skipping page after page just to get to the story only to find that it had not been worth the trouble."
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| The Age 14 May 1966 p 23 |
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| SMH 22 May 1966 p 82 |
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| SMH 10 May 1966 p 16 |
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| Age TV Guide 5May 1966 |
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| The Age TV Guide 5 May 1966 p 2 |
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| SMH 10 May 1966 p 16 |
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| Canberra Times 4 May 1966 p 23 |
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| The Age TV Guide 3 May 1966 |
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| TV Times Qld 8 June 1964 p 1 |
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