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Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Sara Dane
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Film Details - South Australian Film Corporation ; Network Ten , 1982

Producers:

John Barningham (Producer)
Pamela H. Vanneck (Associate Producer)
Harley Manners (Associate Producer)
Jock Blair (Producer)

Production Companies:

South Australian Film Corporation

Director of Photography:

Ernest Clark

Editors:

Philip Reid

Production Designers:

Christopher Webster

Music:

Gary Hardman (Music Editor)
John Russell (Music Arranger)

Cast:

Incl. Juliet Jordan (Sara Dane), Harold Hopkins (Andrew Maclay), Barry Quin (Richard Barwell), Brenton Whittle (Jeremy Hogan), Sean Scully (Louis de Bourget), Damon Herriman (David), Charles Barnes, Alfred Bell, Wayne Bell, Alan Cassell, Andrew Clarke, Jeremy Coote (Chain gang prisoner), Peter Crossley, Robert Crumb, Les Dayman, Judy Dick, John Doherty, John Edmund, Sydney Feldheim, Arragon Fenton, Steven Grives, Robert Grubb (John Macarthur), Susan Guerin, Graham Harvey, Gwenda Helsham, Edwin Hodgeman, Audine Leith, Stuart McCreery, Amanda Muggleton, John Nicholls, Roger Oakley, Dennis Olsen, Michael Pope, Geoffrey Pullan, Ilona Rodgers, Henry Salter, Mary Saunders, David Scheel, Cameron Scott, Paul Sonkkila, Leo Taylor, Peta Toppano, John Trinder, Anna Volska, Roger Ward, Geoffrey Watson, Emma West, Jackie Woodburne, Leslie Wright.

Release Dates:

1. First aired in Australia by the Ten Network on 10 June 1982.
2. Released on videocassette format in 1981 by the South Australian Film Corporation. Re-released on DVD format in 2006 by Umbrella Entertainment.

Location:

  • Filmed at several locations in South Australia, including Fleurieu Peninsula, Happy Valley Reservoir (Happy Valley), Maslin Beach (Adelaide), and Hendon (Adelaide).

Awards:

  • Logie Awards, Australia (1983) Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries/Telemovie - Brenton Whittle (winner)
  • Logie Awards, Australia (1983) Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries/Telemovie - Ilona Rodgers (winner)

Notes:

1. This was the first television mini-series made by the South Australian Film Corporation.
2. Further reference: Albert Moran. Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series (1993), pp. 399-400.

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