"All Fall Down" is the 11th
television play
A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape. This is in contrast to a television movi ...
episode of the second season of the Australian anthology television series ''
Australian Playhouse
''Australian Playhouse'' was an Australian anthology TV series featuring the work of Australian writers.
It ran for two series consisting of 40 episodes. Among the featured productions were works by Pat Flower who was the main writer hav ...
''. "All Fall Down " originally aired on
ABC
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
on 2 October 1967.
It was a comedy and starred the Kessey twins, Katherine and Karen, in roles specifically written for them.
Cast
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Barry Creyton
Barry Creyton (born 1939, Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian actor and playwright. Creyton began his professional career in radio and revue in Melbourne, Australia and became well known in Sydney starring in and writing popular comedy-melo ...
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Robert McDarra
Robert Bundy McDarra (1931– 23 December 1975) variously credited as Robert McDara and Bob McDara was an Australian stage, television and film actor. He won the 1973 AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work on the film ''27A'' ...
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Peter Rowley
Peter Rowley (sometimes credited as Harrison Rowley during his early career) (born April 29, 1952) is a New Zealand comic actor and writer. He is best known for his television roles, where he has played in numerous popular television series as c ...
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Katherine Kessey
Katherine Glyn Kessey (born 28 January 1946) is an Australian actress. She is the widow of British actor Bill Treacher. Their son Jamie Treacher is also an actor. She was born in Perth, Western Australia, with her father, Gwilym Kessey, having ...
* Karen Kessey
Production
Star Barry Creyton later recalled he "didn’t enjoy that... due to ego more than the script, though (laughs). My co-stars where these singing twins, two girls who were popular at the time (Katherine and Karen Kessey). At that time in the ‘60s, I was well enough known to have top billing and they didn’t give it to me, they gave it to the twins, and I was pretty pissed."
Reception
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The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
'' said it was "a disaster."
See also
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References
External links
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1967 television plays
1967 Australian television episodes
1960s Australian television plays
Australian Playhouse (season 2) episodes
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