Funny Things Happen Down Under is 'a musical in colour, based on a group of Australian children who accidentally discover a method of turning sheep's wool into different colours.'
Source:
'Australian Films on Show in Britain', Canberra Times, 5 August 1965, p.24.
The film was tied to the Roger Mirams series The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten, with the 'Terrible Ten' being credited as such in the opening credits.
It aired on Australian television in 1966, advertised as 'a Christmas time adventure with the Terrible Ten'. (See, for example, the television guide in the Canberra Times, 24 December 1966, p.12).
The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten
The Adventures of the Terrible Ten
( dir. Roger Mirams
et. al. )agent
Melbourne
:
Pacific Film Productions
,
1960
Z1823427
1960
series - publisher
film/TV
children's
adventure
A short children's adventure program, which (according to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series) 'concentrated in a pleasant, innocent fashion on a group of children who created their own make-believe town, taking on such jobs as firefighter, police officer and so on'.
The program was the first Australian production for New Zealand-born Roger Mirams, who had arrived in Australia in 1956 to work as a cameraman for the Olympic Games. After this series, Mirams, in Moran's words, 'became an active force in the industry, especially children's drama, over the next 30 years'.
