John Sherman John Sherman i(A148532 works by)
Born: Established: 2 Jun 1911 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 1966
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Australia,
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Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon Adventures of the Seaspray David Seidler , Bill Strutton , William Manville , Robert Mansfield , John Pinkney , Eddie Davis , John Sherman , Colin Free , John Warwick , ( dir. Joe McCormick et. al. )agent Sydney : Pacific Film Productions ABC Television , 1967 Z1831458 1967 series - publisher film/TV

New Zealand-born producer Roger Mirams followed his earlier children's television programs The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten and The Magic Boomerang with this ship-based adventure series, which, as Don Storey points out in his Classic Australian Television, was one of 'three Australian half-hour adventure series [that] were set on boats' during the first twenty years of Australian television.

Adventures of the Seaspray followed the adventurers of a widowed journalist who is raising his three children on a schooner in the South Pacific (aided by a Fijian crew member, Willyum).

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, 'The 26 half-hour stories have all the adventure material that children love - haunted islands, rescues, shipwrecked sailors, hidden treasure, smugglers and primitive tribes all filmed in exotic Pacific locations.'

Storey concurs with this analysis, and adds

Seaspray was notable for several achievements, apart from a high standard of production. It was filmed on location in an international setting; it was the first Australian television show to be filmed in colour since the 1955 series The Adventures of Long John Silver (made before Australia had television); it was the first co-production with an overseas company; and it had a Fijian native in a lead role, the first Australian series to give such prominence to a non-white person.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Funny Things Happen Down Under John Sherman , ( dir. Joe McCormick ) Melbourne : Pacific Film Productions , 1965 7878227 1965 single work film/TV

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.

1 2 form y separately published work icon The Coastwatchers John Sherman , ( dir. Roger Mirams ) Australia : Pacific Film Productions , 1959 15959920 1959 single work film/TV

'Pilot for a proposed series about coastwatchers. The series never eventuated – maybe two men watching coasts isn’t inherently dramatic – but the pilot screened as a stand alone film and New Zealander Mirams (who became a major producer of kids’ TV in this country) later reworked the concept as Spyforce(1971–72)' (FilmInk).

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