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Clip description
While our intrepid private detectives (Terry Bader and Richard Healy) are bungling yet another case, shadowing the factory owner’s wife (Anna Maria Winchester), their Girl Friday (Debra Lawrence) takes on the dirty work on the factory floor to find out how thousands of dollars worth of goods are being stolen each month from beneath the foreman’s nose.
Curator’s notes
The series was a social satire on contemporary life 'in the fast lane’. As seen in this clip, it is simply but effectively shot, with understated performances effectively carrying the wry humour. John Clarke says that the challenge he and Andrew Knight set themselves was to make something in a genre that would sell everywhere, in this case the detective genre. John Clarke recalls that they had great fun making The Fast Lane and that it rated reasonably well. With little promotion from the ABC, it made its name by word-of-mouth and a few timely and very positive critiques. Andrew Knight recalls that the series was great fun to write, and that this experience of working with John Clarke cemented what has become a great friendship. During the research and writing of the series they set themselves up at the State Library, being too poor to hire an office, and after several months, Knight recalls they even had the library staff taking calls for them.
