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Illustrated script cover page (from the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection)
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Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Serious Trouble
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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'TERRY HOOD Age 39. A farm labourer who lives with his wife and two kids in a rented house in a corner of his boss's land. A quiet, mellowed, even-tempered man - perhaps a little too easy-going for his own good. He lets his wife wear the trousers in the house - look after the money, supervise the kids - but that doesn't mean she dominates him. It's just agreed that he lets her take all the responsibilities. He's not going to change now. Rides horse.

'ROSEMARY (ROSIE) HOOD A bright 13 year old tomboy of a girl with much of her father's open good-nature combined with a deal more energy. The two most important people in her life are her dad and her elder brother, Frank, but before the end of the episode she will have seen both of them in a new light and understand their weaknesses for the first time. Rides horse.

'SALLY (SAL') HOOD Terry's wife. Middle 30's. Hard working and ready to take on all those responsibilities that her husband leaves to her. Realised a while ago that Terry was never going to be any difrerent [sic] so has tried to make her kids aware of the work outside of Terry's all-encompassing "She'll be right". Her advice has tended to fall on stoney ground and become indistinguishable from her general low-key, tidy-yourself-up nagging. And it is only nagging - she's not the real heavy she'd sound like if you took every word of hers literally.

'FRANK HOOD Age 18. A nice kid but of an age where he's quickly tiring of the seemingly aimless "Life on the farm". Doesn't know what he wants to do with his life but is certain that he doesn't want to end up the same as his father. He gets involved with Martin McGill to have some fun but then he gets out of his depth. It's a shame. Must ride and drive.

'TED BLAKE Middle-aged country garage proprietor. Easy going.'

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: see The Writer in Australian Television History.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1975 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (from the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 25p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The Crawford Collection holds two copies of this script.
      • Copy 1 is the original script, copied on thin white paper. It has two cover pages: an illustrated outer cover page and a second cover page containing crew information and episode duration. It is labelled 'Code: 12505' on the second cover page. There is no indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated. The script is annotated throughout with liquid paper, but the annotations are minor (copy-editing level corrections) and infrequent.
      • Copy 2 is copied on blue paper, with the same two cover pages. It too is labelled 'Code: 12505' and shows no indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated. The script is annotated throughout in red ink, seemingly in the same hand as the red ink annotations on the scripts for episodes one and two. The annotations are alterations to the dialogue and the deletion of selected scenes. The degree of annotation is fairly heavy throughout the script.
      • The file also contains the following ancillary material:
        1. Cast list: a type-written cast list, with no confidential information.
        2. Printed cast list, showing actors' contact information.
        3. 9pp. copy of the script stripped to nothing but dialogue, copied on white paper. This script incorporates the alterations to dialogue made in copy 2 above.

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC SOL : 3
Note: The script credits Hardy as director, Mills as first assistant director, and Wright as second assistant director.
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