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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):
'EDGAR ROBINSON: 60's.
'MRS. ROBINSON:
[...]
'SHETLAND PONY & CART:
'CHILDREN: Actuals.'
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.
Script cover page (from the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
SoloOneEp8Cover2_FXSC.jpg
Extent:24p. (Manuscript)assertion
Note/s:
The Crawford Collection contains two copies of this script, both copied on blue paper, both labelled 'Code: 12508', and neither showing any indication of to whom these copies of the script were designated. Both scripts have two cover pages: an outer illustrated cover page and a second cover page showing crew details/duration.
Copy 1 shows no signs of annotation.
Copy 2 is annotated throughout in red ink, seemingly in the same hand as the annotations for episodes 1-7, although a different script editor is listed for this episode. The annotations are alterations to the dialogue and deletions of scenes or parts of scenes. The annotations are consistent and relatively heavy throughout the script.
The file also contains the following ancillary materials:
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.
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'.
