The Spring and Fall television series comprised one-off dramas by different playwrights, focusing on life in Australia in the early 1980s.
'Ray, married and in his thirties, is stood down from his job. Initially he covers his resentment with aggression and bravado. He objects to accepting the dole but has to surrender when he cannot find a job.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980'A drama about Charlie, whose growing dependence on alcohol is threatening his job and his family life. He is finally brought to a clinic to dry out. Only Charlie can effect his own cure, and statistics show that it is a long, hard road.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980'Laurie at 30 has reached a crisis. Her marriage is failing and her children maintain their distance from her. She needs and gets professional counselling in order to come to terms with disturbing childhood memories.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980'Real estate agent, Garth, is determined to expand his business and ruthlessly manipulates anyone and anything to achieve his aim. He meets unexpected opposition when he decides to develop an area set aside for a children's playground.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980The Slammer focuses on the experiences of a prisoner released from a maximum security jail after serving an eight-year term. The prisoner has spent nineteen of his twenty-three years in institutions, including time in an orphanage and a boys' home. The narrative examines the difficulties experienced by ex-prisoners upon release, particularly adjusting to their freedom, finding work, and attempting to go straight.
Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980'The story of a teenager, 15-year-old Jamie, from an outer suburb of Sydney, who is caught in the drug and prostitution scene when he runs away from home to join the children at 'The Cross'.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980'A dramatisation depicting the problems faced by migrant women in Australia, particularly their exploitation in the workforce. Focuses on the life of an Italian woman, Angela, who works as a machinist in a clothing factory.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1982'Drama about two elderly, independent women who are friends and live alone in their own homes. Due to changed circumstances, they are no longer able to continue living as they choose.'
Source: Trove. (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1982The story of a disc jockey who is dying of cancer.
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1982'Drama about a lengthy industrial dispute involving metal-trade workers in an engineering firm who lose their annual leave because of a one day strike.'
Source: Trove/ (Sighted: 21/9/2012)
Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1982