person or book cover
John Bach as Mike Power in The Great Bookie Robbery (screen cap)
form y separately published work icon The Great Bookie Robbery series - publisher   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 The Great Bookie Robbery
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A fictionalised version of the theft of somewhere between $6 million and $12 million from the Victoria Club on 21 April 1976. Although technically an unsolved crime (since the only man charged, Norman Lee, was acquitted), the details were revealed in the mid-1990s by Lee's lawyer, after all the men involved had either died or disappeared.

Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, describes the program as 'a tough action mini-series that had a drive, grittiness and ferocity seldom seen in an Australian series':

The Melbourne landscape of wet suburban streets, city skyscrapers, flyovers, passing trams, cobbled laneways and sleazy shopfronts has never looked better, and the impression of a mean, tough, merciless universe is more than reinforced by the driving complex narrative and the excellent playing of the principals.

The program aired on the Nine Network to positive reviews and strong audience figures.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      Australia,
      c
      :
      PBL Productions ,
      1986 .
      person or book cover
      Title screen for The Great Bookie Robbery (screen cap)
      Extent: 6x60min.episodesp.
      Description: Produced on film; colour
Last amended 17 Nov 2011 11:23:36
Settings:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • c
    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1976
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