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1975 .

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

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Extent: 22p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The Crawford Collection holds two copies of the script, both labelled 'Code: 12513'. Both have two cover pages: an illustrated outer cover page and a second cover page giving crew information and episode duration. Neither shows any indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated.

Copy 1 has 'Serious Trouble' (the title of episode three) written in the top right-hand corner of the illustrated cover page in red ink. This copy of the script is annotated throughout with red ink, seemingly in the same hand as the red ink annotations on episodes 1-4. The annotations are alterations to dialogue and deletions of scenes/sections of scenes. These annotations are consistent and fairly heavy throughout the script.

Copy 2 shows no signs of annotation.

The file contains the following ancillary material:
1. Cast list: a type-written cast list, with no confidential information.
2. 7pp. copy of the script stripped to nothing but dialogue, copied on white paper. This script incorporates the alterations to dialogue made in copy 1 above. The episode title is given as 'Strike Me Benson' on this script.

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Held at: AFI Research Collection

Local Id: SC SOL : 5

Note:
AFI Research Collection record

Director: Rod Hardy ; Stewart Wright ; Mick Mills

Note: The script's cover page gives Hardy as director, Mills as first assistant director, and Wright as second assistant director.

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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Seven Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Seven Network , 1976 .

Extent: 22 min., 53 secs (according to the script)p.

Note/s:

Don Storey lists this as episode four.

Series: form y Solo One Sonia Borg , Phil Freedman , Gwenda Marsh , Everett de Roche , Peter Schreck , Vince Moran , Keith Hetherington , John Drew , Keith Thompson , Denise Morgan , Tom Hegarty , Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1976 Z1814905 1976 series - publisher film/TV children's adventure detective Abstract
A spin-off from Crawford Productions' Matlock Police, Solo One transferred motorcycle officer Gary Hogan from the fictional town of Matlock to the real town of Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges, where the program was filmed on location.

The program, an attempt to capitalise on Gary Hogan's popularity with child viewers of Matlock Police and less adult in focus than its predecessor, wasn't renewed for a second season, after Cronin moved on to Crawford's war-time drama, The Sullivans. Don Storey, in his Classic Australian Television, notes that the program 'was very successful and received much critical acclaim', but Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, counters that 'Cronin, though lovable both to Crawford's and the Victorian Police, who were advisors on the series, was far too long in the tooth to be playing this kind of role'.
Number in series: 5

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