A Ride on the Big Dipper

The Age said it "offered some fine parts and the actors did not disappoint."^[9]

The Sydney Morning Herald said "it held a tense interest."^[10]

The Bulletin called it "what TV drama should be. [Terry] McDermott gave a well-paced, intelligent performance as an efficiency - Frankenstein who got clobbered by his own mother in the cold, bloodless mayhem of business. Nothing novel or exciting in the plot, but everything so in seeing it in Australian terms; a believable drama of the times, with believable dialogue. As it was Harrison’s second TV play, and his first one-hour drama, I can only echo the ABC’s Phillip Mann, who said, "It was the kind of work we receive all too rarely, and we hope he intends to stay with it." A sense of drama seems to be the rare old some thing he's got, and here's hoping he is a stayer, because he seems to have the field to himself."^[11]

• A Ride on the Big Dipper at Austlit