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1 form y separately published work icon Alpha Street Howard Griffiths , Barbara Masel , ( dir. Julian Pringle ) Australia : Australian Television Network , 1983 6384427 1983 single work film/TV crime detective

The pilot episode for a crime drama series that was apparently never made: no trace of it exists outside a script held in the National Film and Sound Archive. The NFSA describes it as 'A police and courtroom drama.'

1 form y separately published work icon Snake Gully with Dad and Dave Ralph Peterson , Ken Shadie , ( dir. Hugh Taylor ) Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1972 Z1833052 1972 series - publisher film/TV

Reuniting script-writer Gordon Chater and Ralph Peterson (who had previously successfully worked together on the highly successful sit-com My Name's McGooley - What's Yours?), Snake Gully with Dad and Dave was a modernised and updated version of Steele Rudd's popular characters--albeit a version that, as Don Storey notes in his Classic Australian Television, was based more on the 1930s' radio version than on the original novels.

Just as the radio version had updated the setting to a contemporary 1930s, Peterson's television scripts updated the setting again to the early 1970s, moving Dad and Dave further away from the late nineteenth-century selector culture of Rudd's original narratives. In this version, then, Dad and Dave are farmers on a small, struggling farm.

Despite these alterations, Storey notes that 'ATN-7 held high hopes for the series. The same combination of Ralph Peterson and Gordon Chater that worked on the McGooley series, couple with well-known and liked traditional Australian characters should have guaranteed success.'

It did not. The series was poorly received by both critics and viewers. Storey concludes that 'Budget limitations notwithstanding, the fact remains that a major shortcoming of the series was that the characters did not work well in a modern setting. It can be argued that if the traditional setting could not have been maintained, then the series should not have been made at all.'

1 form y separately published work icon A Man Called Boney Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1972 Z1398272 1972 single work film/TV A documentary produced by the ATN-7 (Sydney) news and current affairs departments, A Man Called Boney is a forty-five-minute film that focuses on the cast and crew as they make the series in outback Australia. It also features preview scenes from the series and interviews with producers John McCallum and Lee Robinson (who discuss aspects of Arthur Upfield's novels and the production itself). James Laurenson also examines the character of Boney.
1 form y separately published work icon Husbandry Is Not Just a Golden Ring Ralph Peterson , Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1972 25699467 1972 single work film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon You Can't See Round Corners Richard Lane , ( dir. David Cahill ) Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1967 Z1037551 1967 series - publisher film/TV crime

A drama series set during the height of the Vietnam War, You Can't See Round Corners revolves around Frankie McCoy, a lonely, somewhat aggressive non-conformist who has spent all his life living in the inner-city suburb of Newtown. As the series progresses, McCoy is called up for National Service and although he initially fulfils his duty, he later deserts and heads back home to hide with friends. Other main characters include his girlfriend Margie and enemy Terry Howlett, the twenty-year-old leader of a small gang of thugs.

The television adaptation was contemporised by producer John Walters and screenwriter Richard Lane. Cleary's original novel is set in the Sydney suburb of Paddington during World War II. After deciding to bring the temporal setting forward to the (then) current Vietnam era, they also had to change the physical setting. Although Paddington had been a working-class suburb in the 1940s, the demographic had changed considerably by the 1960s. Newtown was subsequently considered the most appropriate location for a narrative set in a working-class suburb. Richard Lane records in Take One (1972) that he and Walters also deliberately introduced other contemporary issues into the narrative, notably the inclusion of the Greek community, which by the late 1960s had had an enormous impact on the Newtown district (p. 52).

1 7 form y separately published work icon The Mavis Bramston Show ( dir. David Carhill et. al. )agent 1964 Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1964-1968 Z1518972 1964 series - publisher film/TV satire humour

The first satirical/comedy television series produced in Australia, The Mavis Bramston Show was effectively an adaptation of the stage revue format, the genre out of which many of its stars emerged as professional actors. The writers took aim at any number of contemporary issues, people, and social institutions, often garnering a good deal of controversy in the process.

The show's title derived from a long-held Australian theatrical in-joke concerning unimpressive overseas 'stars' brought out to headline local productions but who were in fact either second-rate performers or whose careers were in decline in their own countries. Such people became known as 'Mavis Bramstons.' In the TV series, the joke was played out by having the Mavis character (played by Maggie Dence) appear only at the beginning of each episode, as she arrives at Sydney airport and is greeted by the waiting press.

1 form y separately published work icon Shell Presents Melbourne Sydney : Nine Network Australian Television Network , 1959-1960 7187840 1959 series - publisher film/TV

A loose anthology series, made in Sydney by ATN-7 and in Melbourne by GTV-9, and aired throughout 1959.

As with many early Australian anthology series, the contents were a combination of locally written material and overseas works; in this case, however, local content made up 50% of the series.

1 3 form y separately published work icon Pardon Miss Westcott Alan Burke , Peter Benjamin , Peter Stannard (composer), ( dir. David Cahill ) 1959 Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1959 Z1518386 1959 single work film/TV musical theatre

In response to the success of Lola Montez, Peter Stannard, Alan Burke, and Peter Benjamin were commissioned by ATN-7 and Shell to write a family-orientated musical for television. That production, Pardon Miss Westcott, was performed and broadcast live around Australia a few weeks before Christmas in 1959. Starring Wendy Blacklock and Michael Cole, it was orchestrated by ATN-7's musical director, Tommy Tycho, along with Julian Lee.

The musical begins in Sydney in 1809, just after Governor Bligh's departure and before Governor Macquarie's arrival, and tells the story of Elizabeth Westcott, a convict transported for serving a pompous magistrate at her father's inn in England his own lamb. She is assigned to work at Government House and quickly rules the roost. When she is granted a ticket of leave, Miss Westcott opens an inn in Pitt Street, with the help of an assortment of saints and sinners. A serving army officer, Richard, who was also on board the convict ship, is captivated by her and eventually overcomes the social gap between them by getting himself into trouble. All ends well.

1 1 form y separately published work icon They Were Big, They Were Blue, They Were Beautiful Ross Napier , Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1959 7188083 1959 single work film/TV

Two people recently released from gaol inadvertently become involved in a baby-kidnapping.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Reflections in Dark Glasses James Workman , ( dir. David Cahill ) Melbourne : Australian Television Network , 1959 7187971 1959 single work film/TV

A woman searches for her missing son, who may have been taken by her husband.

2 1 form y separately published work icon Autumn Affair Gwen Meredith , Richard Lane , ( dir. David Cahill ) Sydney : Australian Television Network , 1958-1959 7188357 1958 series - publisher film/TV

Australia's first soap opera and the first serial drama made in Australia (although it had been preceded by single-episode television dramas), Autumn Affair followed Julia Parrish, a middle-aged woman in a love triangle with two men.

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