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Slow Poison (1967)

Slow Poison poster
Directed by
Oscar Whitbread
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A television play about a person or group dealing with a corrosive threat. The drama unfolds over a single evening in a confined setting.

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What happens

"Slow Poison" is the second television play episode of the second season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse. "Slow Poison" was produced in Melbourne by Oscar Whitbread, written by Allan Trevor. and originally aired on ABC on 22 April 1967, 19 June 1967 in Melbourne and 31 July 1967 in Canberra>. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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