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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'DAVID FLEMING: 40ish. Property Developer and Speculator. Outwardly the suave successful and very wealthy businessman. A compulsive gambler.
'COLIN MORGAN: Mid forties. Fleming's partner and brother-in-law. Formerly an accountant. He goes along with Fleming on the pretence of protecting his sister. In fact, he just doesn't have the guts to do otherwise.
[Note: The apostrophe in "Fleming's" has been added in black ink.]
'SANDRA FLEMING: Mid thirties. Fleming's wife. Bored, comfortably kept, neurotic but with good cause. Unaware her husband's gambling is a problem.
'CHARLIE EVANS: 30ish. Big, burly, and simply. Mildly retarded - an invalid pensioner.
'LANDLADY: (MRS REILLY) Affectionately known as "Ma". Boarding house proprietoress.
'BOOKIE: (BERNIE HOLT) A medium operator. Like all Bookies a gambler himself.
'SECRETARY: (JAN) Early 20's. Flemings secretary [sic].
'NANCY: About 20. Shop assistant. Coarse, but kind.
'STREET CLEANER: Semi retired - bit of a hard case.
'WOMAN SHOPPER:
'AMBULANCE MAN:
'DOCTOR:
'SGT. ROGERS:
'SHOP ASSISTANT.'

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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.

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1974 .

Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)

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Extent: 61p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The script, copied on a combination of blue and white paper, is labelled 'Episode WW4' on the cover page. There is no indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated.

There are no signs of annotation on this copy of the script.

The Crawford Collection includes two copies of this script, but only one is held in this file: the second copy is filed separately.

The file includes a wide range of ancillary material (access to some of which is restricted), including:
1. Five pages of amendments to the script, in the form of a memo from '"Division 4" script editing department' to 'All concerned with the production of "Division 4" episode WW4 "Man of Substance".' The memo outlines a series of detailed amendments, from additions to existing scenes to entire replacement scenes, as well as including the closing narration, which on the script itself is labelled 'To be advised'.
2. Cast list (see separate image file): restricted material.
3. Casting call sheet: restricted material.
4. Shooting schedules.

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Held at: AFI Research Collection

Local Id: SC DIV : 259

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Director: John Barningham

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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network , 1975 .

Extent: 48 min. 11 secs (according to the script)p.

Series: form y Division 4 Howard Griffiths , Charles E. Stamp , Douglas Tainsh , Luis Bayonas , Everett de Roche , Gwenda Marsh , Ted Roberts , Roger Simpson , Sonia Borg , Colin Eggleston , Michael Harvey , Phil Freedman , John Dingwall , Jonathan Dawson , Ray Chamula , David William Boutland , Tom Mclennan , Ian Jones , Keith Hetherington , Tom Hegarty , David Stevens , Terry Stapleton , Mark Randall , John Orcsik , Don Battye , Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1969 Z1814717 1969 series - publisher film/TV detective crime Abstract
Division 4, which Don Storey notes in Classic Australian Television was 'the only drama series on Australian television to rival the popularity of Homicide', was created as a vehicle for Gerard Kennedy, who had risen to popularity playing the complicated enemy agent Kragg in spy-show Hunter, after Tony Ward's departure left Hunter's future in doubt.
According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian Television Series:
The series differed from Homicide in being more oriented to the situation and milieu of a suburban police station staffed by a mixture of plainclothes detectives and uniformed policemen. This kind of situation allowed Division 4 to concentrate on a range of crimes, from major ones such as murder to minor ones such as larceny.
Though set in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central, 'Sets were constructed that were replicas of the actual St Kilda police station charge counter and CIB room, with an attention to detail that extended to having the same picture hanging on the wall', according to Storey.
Division 4 ended in 1976. Storey adds:
Division 4's axing was a dark day for Australian television, as within months the other two Crawford cop shows on rival networks, Matlock Police and Homicide, were also axed. It was widely believed, and still is, that the cancellation of the three programs was an attempt by the three commercial networks--acting in collusion--to wipe out Crawford Productions, and consequently cripple the local production industry.
Number in series: 259

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