John Pinkney John Pinkney i(A25244 works by)
Born: Established: 1934
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Great Australian Mysteries John Pinkney , Victoria : Five Mile Press , 2003 Z1765609 2003 selected work short story mystery
1 1 y separately published work icon Twice Upon a Time John Pinkney , Port Melbourne : Lothian , 1996 Z833893 1996 single work children's fiction children's
2 1 y separately published work icon The Key and the Fountain John Pinkney , Glebe : Walter McVitty Books , 1985 Z831049 1985 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 form y separately published work icon Thirst John Pinkney , ( dir. Rod Hardy ) Australia : F. G. Film Productions , 1979 Z1864387 1979 single work film/TV horror

Elizabeth Bathory's descendant is unaware of her infamous ancestor, until she is abducted. Her captors claim to have reached the status of supermen by drinking human blood, and are eager for her to join them ...

1 1 y separately published work icon Thirst John Pinkney , Melbourne : Circus Books , 1979 Z1349125 1979 single work novel horror thriller
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 Chorale in Deep Space John Pinkney , 1952 single work poetry
— Appears in: Direction : New Literature in Australia , vol. 1 no. 2 1952; (p. 39)
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