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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network , 1971 .

Extent: 90 min.p.

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Ninety-minute special episode.

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: 102A

1971 .

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

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Extent: 106p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The script is labelled 'Episode X9' on the cover page. An annotation in blue ink on the cover page reads, 'RESHOOT SCENE TT'. Otherwise, there is no indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated.

This copy of the script has three cover pages (to cover the scene timing for a double-length episode), but only the first one is annotated.

This copy of the script includes four copies of page 1, all identical; four copies of page 2, all identical; and three copies of page 62, all identical. Pages 69 – 71 inclusive are missing from the script.

This copy of the script is annotated in blue ink on page 75 and the reverse of page 74. Annotations refer to the re-shooting of scene TT, as noted on the cover page. There are no further annotations on this copy of the script.

This script seems to end abruptly on page 106.

The file also contains twenty pages of amendments: pages 14 – 18 inclusive, five pages of amendments to page 42 (presented as amended pages 42, 42A, 42B, 42C, and 42D), pages 46 – 48 inclusive, three pages of amendments to page 51 (presented as amended pages 51, 51A, and 51B), page 79, and three pages of amendments to page 80 (presented as amended pages 80, 80A, and 80B). There are no annotations on any of the amended pages.

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Held at: AFI Research Collection

Local Id: SC DIV : 102A

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