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Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Do Us All a Favour
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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'ERNIE PICKETT: 30's, 40's. You can usually find Ernie around five, five-thirty on Friday evenings in the bar of the local, raffling ducks and drakes for charity, like his father before him. (Only in those days the proceeds went to a private charity...The Pickett family). Ern has taken over where his father left off except that now the raffles are just a front for a flourishing black-market in stolden [sic] goods. In fact Ernie is a successful, small-time travelling fence, and has even been known to set up the actual heist himself when supplies are running short. Despite these questionable elements in his character he's a likeable sort of bloke, a bantam battler in fact with a good spiel and a healthy outlook on life as long as a man's free to make a quid for himself in his own time and in his own way. Able to drive.

'MAX PICKETT: 30's, 40's. Physically unprepossessing. Max is Ernie's overbearing elder brother. Not nearly as sharp and self-sufficient as Ernie, Max is married with a family, (we never see them) and drives an all-purpose furniture removal van. (Part of the Pickett family enterprises). There's a hard edge to Max and more than an underlying hint of jealousy in his zealous regard for his younger brother's welfare. Able to drive.

'MA PICKETT: Fifties, sixties. (Ernie still live [sic] with his widowed mother). Ma gives the impression of being a rather vague old soul, but she doesn't miss all that much. She knows for instance the Ernie's [sic] commission from the raffles and the little fiddle he works on the purchase of the poultry isn't enough to cover the electric fruit juicer, her own personal portable telly, and the bone china flying ducks that Ern has lavished upon her. Deep down she also knows that when Ernie disappeared for a period of six months about two years ago, he wasn't really vacationing in Cowes like he told her. But then she's rather proud of her boy, and if Ernie wants to spare his mother the heartbreak of knowing that he's done a stint in Pentridge then that's alright with her. After all, she's been through it all with Ernie's father, God rest his soul, and a finer man never pulled on a pair of ripple soles.

'BUBBLES AND LENNIE: Late forties. Max's off-siders on the furniture van. Heavyweight ex-ruckman from the fifties in faded dungarees and sweating, bulging football jumpers. Big bruisers.

'RUDI FISCHER: Twenties. German immigrant. Masseur at the South Pacific Health Studios. Murdered in the teaser.

'TRINA FISCHER: Thirties. Rudi's elder sister. Murdered in teaser.

'WALLY CARSON: Sixties. Proprietor and manager of South Pacific Health Studios.

'GEORGE McKENNA: Late thirties. Professional crim. Baggy overcoat, hat, and usually wears horn-rimmed glasses for the fine print.

'ERIC HOBBS: Thirties. McKenna's off-sider. Stylishly dressed, ladies man. Able to drive.

'JOHNNO: Barman. About Ernie's age.

'IRIS: The Fischers' next-door neighbour. A lady of tarnished former glories.

'SLATER: Thirties. Lounge-bar drinker.

'EXTRAS: For bar scenes.

'MASSEUR: Actual.

'WATKINS: Established.'

Notes

  • This entry has been compiled from archival research in the Crawford Collection (AFI Research Collection), undertaken by Dr Catriona Mills under the auspices of the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1974 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 64p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The file contains two copies of the script, one numbered 26 and one numbered 28. Both copies are on a mixture of yellow and white paper (the first two and last two pages yellow, the rest white), and neither shows any indication of to whom the copies were designated. Both scripts have '452' added to the cover page in ink: script number 26 in blue ink and script number 28 in black ink.
      • Neither copy of the script is annotated, barring the numbering on the title page.
      • A separate file (labelled 'Homicide Box 74'), which has not been catalogued because it contains restricted material, includes documents relating to the production of this episode, including:
        1. Casting call sheets
        2. Cast list.
        3. Shooting schedules

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC HOM : 452
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