title: The Air-Conditioned Author
text: # The Air-Conditioned Author
  
  "The Air Conditioned Author" is the third television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series Australian Playhouse. "The Air Conditioned Author" was written by Colin Free and directed by Henri Safran and originally aired on ABC on 2 May 1966.
  
  ## Plot
  
  A novelist, Nicholas Lovatt, becomes disillusioned when his publisher urges him to turn out stereotyped novels.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Richard Meikle as Nicholas Lovatt
  * Eric Reiman
  * Willie Fennell
  * Tony Ingersent
  * Sue Walker
  
  ## Reception
  
  The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a comedy that missed because it lacked deft shaping".
  
  The Age called it "shapeless, disconnected and bumpy".
  
  