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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Essington
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Film Details - ABC Television , 1975

Producers:

Alan Burke

Production Companies:

Australian Broadcasting Commission

Director of Photography:

Lloyd Shiels

Production Designers:

Quentin Hole

Composer:

Peter Sculthorpe

Cast:

Chris Haywood (Bob Squires), Jacqueline Kott, Sandra McGregor (Pretty Polly), Wyn Roberts, Michael Craig, Cornelia Frances, Melissa Jaffer, John Hargreaves, Ralph Cotterill, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Justine Saunders, Drew Forsythe

Release Dates:

First broadcast by ABC Television in March 1975.

Awards:

  • Logie Awards (1976), Best Individual Performance by an Actor - Chris Haywood (winner)
Settings:
  • Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, West Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Top End, Northern Territory,
  • 1840s
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