"Getting Along with the Government" is the seventh television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse.
"Getting Along with the Government" was written by Colin Free and directed by John Croyston[1] and originally aired on ABC on 30 May 1966[2] A pleasant inefficient "boss", Mr Bigelow (Don Crosby), works at the Government Department for Marketing.
He has a devoted secretary (Joan Lord) and an ambitious rival (Allan Trevor).
[3] The Sydney Morning Herald called it a "rather banal sketch" which was "well put together and the dialogue often amusing" with "smooth performances".
This was indeed a theme that required sparkling dialogue and an effective, if light, satiric touch.