form y separately published work icon Bellbird [Episode 1] single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Bellbird [Episode 1]
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Episodes one and four from the first season of Bellbird are published in Close Up: Scripts from Australian Television's Second Decade. Editors Don Reid and Frank Bladwell provide a summary of the episodes:

Episode 1: Melbourne teacher Michael Foley sells his house and leaves the city in his Rolls Royce to live in the country township of Bellbird. Lori Chandler, a librarian, has agreed to take him in as a boarder at her property, Bellbird Station. The local P and C committee members find this immoral, however, and demand she renege on her decision. Meanwhile, Glenda Chan, a young Chinese woman, is being pressured to sell her house by local real-estate agent Charles Kozane, who uses Jack Baker, an old friend of the Chans', as his cover. Baker currently tends the garden for Glenda. She is informed that not only is the garden on council land but her family has also been squatting on land originally bought by Lori Chandler's grandfather. Kozane knows that Lori won't sell the land while Glenda still lives in the house, and is attempting to convince her to take Jack's 'generous' offer.

Notes

  • While the published script has the villainous real-estate agent called Charles Kozane, the character's name was changed in the actual television series to Charlie Cousens.

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      Australia,
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      Australian Broadcasting Commission ,
      1967 .
      Link: 19048275Digitised script Sighted: 16/04/2020
      Series: form y separately published work icon Bellbird Barbara Vernon , Beverley Phillips , Peter Hepworth , Michael Jenkins , Ray Kolle , Alan Hopgood , Oriel Gray , Barbara Vernon , Australia : ABC Television , 1967-1977 Z1362910 1967 series - publisher film/TV

      Australia's first successful television soap opera, Bellbird was devised by writer Barbara Vernon and telecast by ABC Television between 1967 and 1977. The serial is set in a rural farming community, with the storylines examining the lives of various people from in and around the fictional township of Bellbird. Among the long list of characters introduced during the course of the series were the crusty farmer Jim 'The Colonel' Emerson and his glamorous wife Maggie, the local mechanic Joe Turner and his wife Olive, local policeman Constable Des Davies and his wife Fiona, the unpleasant stock and station agent John Quinney, and Jim and Marge Bacom, proprietors of the local pub that served as a central meeting place.

      Number in series: 1.1

      Holdings

      Held at: National Archives of Australia National Archives Library
      Local Id: 12822673
Form: screenplay
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Close-Up : Scripts from Australian Television's Second Decade Don Reid (editor), Frank Bladwell (editor), Sydney : Macmillan Australia , 1971 Z159243 1971 anthology screenplay A selection of scripts from television programs telecast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission between 1965 and 1970. (See note below for the accuracy of this date span.) Sydney : Macmillan Australia , 1971 pg. 177-209
    Note:

    Includes script of episode 4.

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