[4][5] Written by John O'Grady, it starred Frank Thring as the devil, along with Wyn Roberts, Edward Howell, Joan Harris, Ken Goodlet and Lynne Flanagan.
Stoker persuades Satan to come to Sydney with his wife Lilith (Lynne Flanagan) to study the situation.
[14] The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic called it a "brilliant Melbourne production" which "gave a candid picture of the unsubtle and rough-diamond Aussie, but was in itself subtle and refined in all the details of manner, pronunciation and setting which make up the Australian in-the-round.
The main points in this witty study of Australiana were never rammed home they came up naturally in the dialogue" and "the cast portrayed them to perfection.
It feels as though it could have used a dramaturg to get all the juice out of the characters and situations (O’Grady was never too strong on plots) but you can imagine the actors having the time of their lives with it.