[4][5] Unlike some Australian television of the early 1960s, the program still exists, as a kinescope recording held by the National Film and Sound Archive.

[10] Producer Brett Porter said, "this is a most imaginative TV production, calling for a high degree of creativeness in lighting, camera work and sound.

[12] The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald called it a "cleverly-constructed psychological thriller... imaginatively acted and directed" in which Muriel Steinbeck "in a role tailor-made for Bette Davis or a Barbara Stanwyck... acted with great style and polish, moving smoothly through the moods of whimsy menace and slight madness which the part demanded.

David Cshill's cunning direction and lighting always, underlined, and at one or two points dramatically highlighted, the effects Miss Steinbeck was trying to achieve."

He thought the "psychological truth" of the play "may be a little dubious, and its ending is a bit pat" but "there were enough edge-of-the-chair moments to keep cold logic suspended.

"[14] Filmink magazine said "Steinbeck's TV appearances in the early sixties tended to be "wives" – Thunder on Sycamore Street (1960) and Stormy Petrel (1960)...