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1 form y separately published work icon Pugwall's Summer Alan Hopgood , ( dir. John Gauci ) Australia : LJ Productions Nine Network , 1991 7450678 1991 series - publisher film/TV children's

'Peter Unwin George Wall, otherwise known as Pugwall, had a big dream — to be in a successful rock band. With the help of his mates Bazza, Orfo, Stringbean and Jenny, he created The Orange Organics. Now it's Summer and Pugwall has his own goals to achieve. He makes a list with his best friend Orfo and together they set about achieving them: making money, driving the school wardens wild, getting a suntan and working towards the release of a record with the band.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 6/6/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Pugwall Alan Hopgood , ( dir. John Gauci ) Australia : LJ Productions Nine Network , 1989 7450464 1989 series - publisher film/TV children's

'A group of young people get together to form a rock and roll band.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon Saturdee Judith Colquhoun , Peter Hepworth , ( dir. John Gauci ) Australia : LJ Productions Revcom Television , 1986 Z1821281 1986 series - publisher film/TV children's

Based on a novel by Norman Lindsay, Saturdee is a fictionalised account of Lindsay's childhood, set in the equally fictional Victorian town of Redheap. According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, Lindsay

invented the central character, twelve-year-old Peter Gimble, as a projection of everything he would have liked to have been and he also included a friend of Peter's, Conkey Menders, as a representation of his real boyhood. Saturday was the day the boys and their friends lived for, a time of escape and adventures, after the chores of the week and the coming sabbatical gloom of Sundays.

Moran notes that since the writers and the director/producer had previously been involved with the ABC, it is surprising that this was not an ABC production. Instead, it was commissioned by the Seven Network. Shot over eleven weeks on location in Creswick, Victoria, the program cost $1.3 million to produce, but rated well with its target audience.

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