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Alternative title: Paying My Dues to the Blues
Issue Details: First known date: 1974... 1974 Stopover
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Film Details - Crawford Productions ; Seven Network , 1974

Producers:

Igor Auzins (executive producer).

Production Companies:

Crawford Productions.

Music:

The telemovie's music came from Jon English's album It's All a Game.

Cast:

The following information is derived from material held in the Crawford Collection:

Jon English (Gordon Hayes); Katie Sheil (Elly Sullivan); David Vallon (Alex Robertson); Neil Thompson (Inspector George Beatty); Carla Hoogaveen (Susan Brice); Betty Bobbit (Marion Stewart); John Drew (Detective Inspector Scofield); Michael Duffield (Frank Lowther); Tony Bonner (Denny Connell); Tony Nayor, Brian Fitzgerald, and Rex Bullen (The Group); Marjorie Holt (Irene Beatty); Michelle Hunt (Marie); David John (Airport Worker); Barbara Jungwirth (Second Female Customs Officer); and Keith Halliwell and Peter Dixon (Commomwealth PCs).

A handwritten note at the bottom of the cast list from which the above information is derived reads 'BUSKER T.B.A.'

Release Dates:

According to Don Storey, 7 June 1976.
Storey notes that the episode was screened as a standalone telemovie in Melbourne, but as part of the usual Homicide run in Sydney (as episode 504).
The copyright date on the closing credits is 1974.
The copyright date on the script is 1975, though this shows evidence of having been altered with liquid paper.

Location:

  • Some scenes filmed on location in London.

Notes:

Script editor: the cover page no longer has a space for the editor’s name (this has been replaced by the executive producer’s name), and the editor’s name no longer appears at the end of the document.

Subjects:
Settings:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • London,
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    England,
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    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
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