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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 Loss of Innocence
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Film Details - Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1978

Producers:

Eric Tayler.

Production Companies:

Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Production Designers:

Neave Catchpool and Graeme Gould.

Cast:

Including John Fitzgerald, Carol Burns, Ron Falk, Monica Maughan, Alwyn Kurts, Carol Raye, Jacqueline Kott, Louise Howitt, Paul Bertram, Enid Lorimer, Michele Fawdon, David Franklin, Jacqui Dalton, David Waters, and Julieanne Newbould.

Release Dates:

Broadcast on the ABC in four parts from 23 February 1978.

Notes:

List of episodes:

1. (Broadcast 23 February 1978)

In 1936 in Sydney times are hard: 13-year-old Peter Robertson is torn between the need to earn and the desire to learn—and events not of his choosing affect his life: 15-year old Muriel has ideas about Peter. ([Television guide], Canberra Times, 17 February 1978, p.20.)

2. (Broadcast 2 March 1978)

1943 and Australia is at war. ([Television guide], Canberra Times, 25 February 1978, p.46.)

3. (Broadcast 9 March 1978)

By 1954, Peter's father has achieved a degree of prosperity and is more than ever ambitious for his son's success. Peter has compromised between reluctant acceptance of dull mediocrity as on accountant and a continuing romantic dalliance with his "Bohemian" life. ([Television guide], Canberra Times, 3 March 1978, p.22)

4. (Broadcast 16 March 1978)

1975. Peter Robertson is comfortably married with a 20-year-old son and company secretary in his father-in-law's business. A new association rekindles his dreams of the life beautiful. ([Television guide], Canberra Times, 10 March 1978, p.24.)


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