Marcia Hatfield Marcia Hatfield i(A43001 works by) (birth name: Marcia Ann Chirlian)
Born: Established: 1928 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Explorers, Riders of the Magic Pirriwee Marcia Hatfield , Sydney : Greg Solomon for Qantas , 1989 Z1127421 1989 single work picture book children's
1 form y separately published work icon The Maestro's Company Marcus Cooney , Sue Woolfe , Sheila Sibley , Marcia Hatfield , Hugh Stuckey , ( dir. William Fitzwater ) Australia : Independent Productions , 1985 Z1819592 1985 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, 'This hybrid series revolves around a company of opera singers (incarnated as puppets) who live in a disused theatre. They are found by two children who are their only audience as they proceed through thirteen different operas'.

The program was designed by Marcia Hatfield as a way of introducing child viewers to opera, and ran through such productions as Il Trovatore, Carmen, Aida, and I Pagliacci.

Moran notes that SBS, which purchased the series, ran it in an early evening timeslot during the traditionally poor summer season, but that the series did sell well to overseas markets.

1 y separately published work icon The Toothbrush Family Marcia Hatfield , Sydney : Hamlyn , 1975 Z835015 1975 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon My Book of Ballet Stories Marcia Hatfield , Sydney : Hamlyn , 1974 Z1114021 1974 selected work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Eddie's Numbers Marcia Hatfield , Allan Stomann (illustrator), Giulietta Stomann (illustrator), Sydney : Hamlyn , 1972 Z835846 1972 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon Let's Explore with Rosemary Marcia Hatfield , Rosemary Eather , Sydney : West , 1970 Z830510 1970 single work prose children's
1 y separately published work icon Eddie's Alphabet Marcia Hatfield , Rowl Greenhalgh (illustrator), Dee Why West : Hamlyn , 1969 Z837012 1969 single work picture book children's
1 form y separately published work icon Divorce Court Julie-Ann Ford , Lynn Foster , Marcia Hatfield , Robert Peach , Australia : NLT Productions , 1967 Z1823272 1967 series - publisher film/TV

Divorce Court was based on a long-running American documentary series, which, though it marketed itself as presenting real-life divorce cases to audiences, actually presented re-enactments of real-life divorces using actors. Though Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, doesn't specify and information on the program is scarce, the Australian version presumably followed the same model.

According to Moran,

Each episode was hosted by a narrator and fully scripted, with speed and efficiency vital to producers working to network deadlines. Shot in sequence at TCN-9 studios, Divorce Court was tightly scripted in order to avoid reshoots and video editing. This was due in part to the lack of video sophistication at the time. The series was produced on average at a rate of around five episodes per week, which were usually shot in one day. At one stage producers even managed to come up with twenty fully scripted episodes in eight working days.

1 The Gum Tree Visitors Marcia Hatfield , 1967 single work children's fiction children's
— Appears in: Let's Listen Again : Kindergarten Stories and Verses 1967; (p. 74-79)
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