A Little South of Heaven is Australian live television play which aired in 1961 on ABC.
[7] The BBC production starred Ina De La Haye and Robert Rietty.
The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic called it "rather stale fare" as the plot and characters were too predictable, adding that thematically the play "a warm-blooded extension of an Immigration Department pamphlet; bur its mainspring was a device as old as comedy and diplomacy... A neat, visually fluent, but also stodgily predictable, 60 minutes of viewing.
"[8] Val Marshall of the same paper thought it was almost as good as The Big Day, "a play that has remained pretty much par for the course for Australian TV drama ever since".
She felt "in spite of some miscasting and an occasional spot where action bogged down in words... [it] came off remarkably well.