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Film Details
- Independent Productions; ABC Television; Seven Network,1988-1993
Producers:
Gene Scott and Richard Davis (executive producers). Stanley Walsh and Brendan Lunney (producers).
Production Companies:
Independent Productions
Finance Organisations:
Independent Productions pre-sold the first series of Butterfly Island to a US cable network and to the BBC, as a means of off-setting the enormous costs of location shooting. Similar sales were made with series two.
Director of Photography:
Ross Berryman
Editors:
Bob Cogger
Production Designers:
Herbert Pinter
Cast:
Including Grigor Taylor (Charlie Wilson), Penne Hackforth-Jones (Mary Travers), Mark Kounnas (Greg Wilson), Mouche Phillips (Jackie Wilson), and David Phu An Chiem (Vo Diem).
Release Dates:
According to Moran, 15 July 1985 (ABC TV, series one), 20 April 1987 (Seven Network, series two). Series three aired in 1993 (outside Moran's scope).
Location:
Series one was filmed on Brampton Island, Port Douglas, and MacKay, for a cost of $1.6 million (for an eleven-week shoot). Series two was filmed in the Whitsundays and on Sydney's northern beaches, for a cost of $3.2 million.
