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Illustrated script cover page (from the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
form y separately published work icon The Billabong single work   film/TV   crime   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 The Billabong
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      1975 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (from the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 22p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The Crawford Collection holds two copies of the script. Both are copied on blue paper, both are labelled 'Code: 23504', and both have two cover pages: an illustrated outer cover page and a second cover page giving crew details and episode duration. Neither copy shows any indication of to whom this copy of the script was designated.
      • Copy 1 is annotated throughout in red ink, seemingly in the same hand as the annotations to episodes 1-3. The annotations are alterations to dialogue and the occasional deletion of scenes or sections of scenes. The degree of annotation is fairly heavy throughout the script.
      • Copy 2 shows no signs of annotation.
      • 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. Casting call sheets, showing the actors' contact details.
        4. 10pp.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.

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC SOL : 4
      Note:
      AFI Research Collection record
Note: The script credits Stevens as director, Hunt as first assistant director, and Wright as second assistant director.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Seven Network , 1976 .
      person or book cover
      Screen cap from opening credits
      Extent: 24 min., 42 secs (according to the script)p.
      Note/s:
      • Storey lists this as episode six.
      Series: form y separately published work icon 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

      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: 4
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