The Lace Counter

"The Lace Counter" is the 24th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse. "The Lace Counter" was written by Pat Flower and originally aired on ABC on 26 September 1966.

Plot

Miss Peach and Mrs Plum, meet across the Lace counter in a department store and discover that both sides of the counter yield elusive truths.

Cast

Ruth Cracknell as Miss Peach
Aileen Britton as Mrs Plum
Noel Brophy as Mr Prune

Production

Flower originally wrote this and Easy Terms for Robin Lovejoy's lunchtime theatre program. This program folded before Lovejoy even read them but once he did he recommended them to the ABC and Crowley became the main contributing writer to season one of Australian Playhouse. It was shot in Sydney.

Reception

The Age gave it a poor review.