form y separately published work icon Going Home single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Going Home
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'In 'Going Home' Miles Newton, a happily married successful businessman, leaving the office on this 40th birthday, catches a hint from his secretary that his wife may have plans for a surprise celebration. He drives home, but outside the brightly lit house, where the familiar circle of friends and family are concealed, waiting to explode with the inevitable greetings and happy jibes, he impulsively turns the car around.

Miles heads through the night to the country town in which he grew up, seeking to renew contact with those who were part of his youth — and perhaps, through them, with his youth itself.

A chance encounter with a young girl, hitchiking [sic], threatens to wreck not only his nostalgic homegoing, but also his relationship with his wife and children.'

Source:

'Wagstaff Playhouse', Canberra Times, 29 April 1977, p.19. View via Trove.

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  • Television play.

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      Australia,
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      :
      Australian Broadcasting Commission ,
      1977 .
      Extent: 56min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Stuart Wagstaff's World Playhouse Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1977-1983 6993909 1977 series - publisher film/TV

      An anthology television series, in which British-born actor Stuart Wagstaff (who worked extensively as an actor in Australia) introduced a weekly telemovie.

      As the title suggests, the telemovies were drawn from overseas (primarily Great Britain, as the list below indicates), but also included Australian-written works: the inaugural episode, for example, was written by Colin Free.

      The quantity of Australian content fell away as the series continued, until by 1979 there was essentially no Australian content, the only exception being 1980 airing of an adaptation of Thomas Keneally's Gossip from the Forest, but the adaptation itself had been produced for British television originally.

      For its last three years, the program was a series of re-runs of British programs (with occasional American or Canadian episodes), with no local content.

      The episodes are listed below in running order (including Australian-written episodes), but only the Australian-written works are indexed.

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