person or book cover
Unscrupulous tennis star Greg Marsden (James Reyne) and temporarily frumpy heiress Stephanie Harper (Rebecca Gilling) marry in Return to Eden (screen cap)
form y separately published work icon Return to Eden [mini-series] series - publisher   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Return to Eden [mini-series]
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Before handsome young Wimbledon champion Greg Marsden marries wealthy, twice-divorced mother Stephanie Harper, he begins an affair with her best friend Jilly Stewart. On their honeymoon at 'Eden', the Harper family's estate in the Northern Territory, Greg pushes Stephanie into a crocodile-infested river. She amazingly survives an attack but requires plastic surgery to fix her injuries. With a new face and identity, she begins to plot her revenge. Stephanie's plan involves enticing Greg to fall in love with her. They then return to Eden, where she confronts him and Jilly, revealing her true identity. After a struggle and a murder attempt, Greg dies in a plane crash and Stephanie is re-united with her children and the plastic surgeon she has grown to love.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cremorne, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:
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      Australia,
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      Eden Productions ; Network Ten ,
      1983 .
      person or book cover
      Title screen for the Return to Eden mini-series (screen cap)
      Extent: 6x60 min. episodes ; colourp.
      Description: Colour
      Note/s:
      • Other sources indicate 3x120 min. episodes

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Australian Television : A Genealogy of Great Moments Alan McKee , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 2001 10504917 2001 multi chapter work criticism
Refleksje na temat krajowego radia i telewizji Andrzej Gawroński , 1999 single work column satire
— Appears in: Mój punkt widzenia : Felietony australijskie 1999; (p. 19-21)

This column reflects on the state use of mass media for propaganda purposes in the People's Republic of Poland in the 1980s. It discusses the appeal of the Australian soap opera 'Return to Eden' to Polish viewers, starved of access to any images of luxury in their own country.

Refleksje na temat krajowego radia i telewizji Andrzej Gawroński , 1999 single work column satire
— Appears in: Mój punkt widzenia : Felietony australijskie 1999; (p. 19-21)

This column reflects on the state use of mass media for propaganda purposes in the People's Republic of Poland in the 1980s. It discusses the appeal of the Australian soap opera 'Return to Eden' to Polish viewers, starved of access to any images of luxury in their own country.

y separately published work icon Australian Television : A Genealogy of Great Moments Alan McKee , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 2001 10504917 2001 multi chapter work criticism
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