"The Parking Ticket" is the 12th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse, which consists of 13 half-hour plays, written by Australian authors and created at the ABC-TV's studios. "The Parking Ticket" was written by Max Colwell and Michael Wright and directed by Henri Safran and originally aired on ABC on 4 July 1966. It was one of the first credits for Michael Wright who would die in a car crash in 1969.
Plot Bob Rankin receives a parking ticket and discovers he lives in a world of aggressive inspectors. The father of a man who has seduced a young woman is given a ticket by the father of the girl.
Cast Stewart Ginn as the boy's father Lynne Murphy as Muriel Shirley MacDonald as Vi Charles Little as the boy Denis Carmen Duncan Willie Fennell as Steve
Reception The Sydney Morning Herald said it provides "both humour and drama."
The Age called it "a gem".
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