Ken Hannam Ken Hannam i(A53761 works by)
Born: Established: 12 Jul 1929 St Kilda, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 16 Nov 2004 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,

Gender: Male
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1 2 form y separately published work icon Robbery Under Arms Tony Morphett , Graeme Koetsveld , Michael Jenkins , ( dir. Donald Crombie et. al. )agent Adelaide : South Australian Film Corporation , 1985 Z820546 1985 single work film/TV

Set in the late 1800s, Robbery Under Arms is the story of bushranger Captain Starlight, told from the perspective of young Dick Marsden. Dick and his brother Jim follow their father's footsteps, on the wrong side of the law. After they succumb to the impetuosity of a tossed coin and participate in the theft and subsequent sale of fifteen hundred head of cattle, the pair team up with the mysterious Starlight (the renegade son of a British noble family), and evolve from petty criminals to outlawed bushrangers, terrorising the countryside, often in partnership with their father Ben and Starlight's Aboriginal offsider Warrigal. Throughout this story, the brothers find themselves at odds with both their mother and sister and with the lives they could have otherwise led.

1 form y separately published work icon Robbery Under Arms Michael Jenkins , Graeme Koetsveld , Tony Morphett , ( dir. Donald Crombie et. al. )agent Adelaide : South Australian Film Corporation , 1985 8091989 1985 series - publisher film/TV

An adaptation of Robbery Under Arms, released as both a feature film and a mini-series: this is the latter version.

1 form y separately published work icon Dawn! Joy Cavill , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) Australia : Aquataurus Film Productions , 1979 7369686 1979 single work film/TV

'Based on the life of one of the world's greatest, most controversial and most loved sporting personalities, swimmer Dawn Fraser.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2 2 form y separately published work icon Summerfield Cliff Green , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) Melbourne : Clare Beach Films , 1977 Z1855134 1977 single work film/TV horror thriller
— Appears in: Four Scripts 1978; (p. 41-117)

'The mysterious disappearance of a school teacher leads to the exposure of a reclusive family living at Summerfield, an island estate. Unfolding events lead to tragedy in the quiet town.'

Source: NFSA

1 2 form y separately published work icon Luke's Kingdom Tony Morphett , Elizabeth Kata , Brian Wright , John Dorsman , Keith Raine , Donald Bull , ( dir. Ken Hannam et. al. )agent Sydney Yorkshire : Nine Network Trident Television , 1976 Z1831038 1976 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction

Set in early colonial Australia, Luke's Kingdom follows the various fortunes of Jason Firbeck, who emigrates to Australia with his three children, and his son Luke, who is far more suited to life in the new country.

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, the program 'is not only a drama concerned with a man's settlement in a savage, hostile wilderness but is also a psychological drama wherein the son displaces the father. Jason is shown to be ineffective in the new land in contrast to Luke, who is a down-to-earth pragmatist who takes what he wants.'

A British and Australian co-production--both financially and in terms of cast and crew--the program did well when it aired on the Nine Network.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Break of Day Cliff Green , 1976 Australia : Clare Beach Films , 1976 Z818846 1976 single work film/TV A damaged soldier recovering from the Great War begins a troubled but tender romance with an older woman.
1 form y separately published work icon Sweeping Plains Peter Smalley , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1976 7951485 1976 single work film/TV

'David feels cramped in this suburban Melbourne flat. The 'real' country is out there, and he'd like to get to it. But will his wife join him in the adventure?'

Source: Radio Times, 3 June 1976, p.17.

2 12 form y separately published work icon Sunday Too Far Away! John Dingwall , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) 1975 South Australia : South Australian Film Corporation , 1975 Z437559 1975 single work film/TV (taught in 2 units)

Set in 1956 on an outback sheep station, the narrative explores the life of the old-time shearers: sweat-soaked days and rum-soaked nights, bloody two-fisted punch ups ... and the scab labour brought in during the shearers' strike of 1956. Central to the main storyline is Foley, a gun shearer who has been unbeaten in the tally for ten years, but who now arrives at the station aware that his days as the fastest shearer are now numbered.

1 form y separately published work icon Contrabandits Martyn Sanderson , James Workman , Colin Free , Brian Wright , Ron Harrison , Robert Peach , Allan Trevor , John Martin , ( dir. John Croyston et. al. )agent Sydney : ABC Television , 1967-1968 Z1805752 1967-1968 series - publisher film/TV detective crime

Contrabandits was a fifty-minute procedural series following the Customs Special Branch, an elite group of law-enforcers intercepting contraband in Sydney.

Colin Free was script editor for the series (as well as scripting several episodes).

Source:

Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series

Storey, Don. Classic Australian Television http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/contrab.htm (Sighted 13/9/11)

See also:

Musgrove, Nan. 'Contrabandits'. Australian Women's Weekly 4 October 1967, p.17.

'Smuggling Theme of New Series'. Canberra Times 18 September 1967, p.15.

1 form y separately published work icon Wandjina! G. K. Saunders , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1966 Z1850522 1966 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy science fiction

Now an extremely obscure television program (of which no mention is made on the National Film and Sound Archives website), Wandjina! was a seven-part fantasy series for young viewers, written by G.K Saunders (who, in 1964 and 1965, had scripted The Stranger) and, like The Stranger, produced by the ABC.

Wandjina! followed three young protagonists who stumble across a mysterious valley. In one of the valley's caves, they find cave paintings of the Wandjina spirit people. But after making this discovery, they start to see some odd things.

The central mythology of the program was inspired by the Dreamtime mythology of the Kimberley region of north-west Australia; as such, it represented an early attempt to create a consciously Australian style of fantasy for television (for example, it preceded the television adaptation of Patricia Wrightson's The Nargun and the Stars).

Moran notes in his Guide to Australian TV Series that the program was 'notable in using young Aboriginal actors such as Bindi Williams, as well as bringing some sense of Aboriginal culture to its young, white audience'. The lead roles were taken by Juliana Allan (who played Ensign Eve Poitier in Vega 4 in the following year) and Jacki Weaver (one of her earliest screen roles).

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopsis, see Notes.

1 1 form y separately published work icon The Silver Backed Brushes Joyce Spelling , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) Waratah Productions , 1965 15972284 1965 single work film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon Split Level Noel Robinson , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1964 21447133 1964 single work film/TV

'It concerns the domestic problem of an architect, his wife and their family of two children. The plot unfolds through the eyes of the central character, Stephanie Stewart, the architect's wife. [...] There is an ever-growing rift between Stephanie and Mike. As the play opens, they are quarrelling about the sudden changes of decor which she wants for their home. She cannot understand why her husband will not allow her to pay for the alterations with money his mother had given her as a gift. The argument is only one sympton of their growing apart. A little while later matters come to a head when Stephanie learns from her gossiping girl-friends that Mike is involved with another woman. When husband and wife finally face the issue, there seems to be no way to break the tension between them.'

Source: 'Sydney Woman's First TV Play', Canberra Times, 6 October 1964, p.13.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Jonah Michael Plant , Ross Napier , ( dir. David Cahill et. al. )agent Sydney : Channel 7 , 1962 23485778 1962 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction Set in Sydney between the 1830s and the 1850s, Jonah follows a Sydney merchant and his encounters with historical figures.
2 form y separately published work icon The Story of Peter Grey Richard Lane , Kay Keavney , ( dir. Ken Hannam ) Sydney : Seven Network , 1961-1962 7190348 1961 series - publisher film/TV

A daytime soap opera (like its predecessor, Autumn Affair), The Story of Peter Grey follows a young clergyman newly appointed to a large parish.

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