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form y separately published work icon Bellbird [Episode 4] single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Bellbird [Episode 4]
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Episodes one and four from the first season of Bellbird are published in Close Up: Scripts from Australian Television's Second Decade. Editors Don Reid and Frank Bladwell provide a summary of the episodes:

Episode 4: Michael Foley's presence as the new teacher, his living arrangements, and his car become topics of interest within the town. While Mrs Lang finds the whole situation a lot of fuss about nothing, she is nevertheless determined that her daughter will have nothing further to do with Tony Buckland. Charles Kozane invites Foley to his office to apologise for his behaviour, but then asks him to help convince Lori that she shouldn't get involved with the 'Chinese' problem. Kozane is disappointed when Foley not only insists he has no plans to get involved in anything or with anybody in this 'god-forsaken burg,' but also openly criticises his 1920s' Chicago-style methods. The episode ends with Glenda informing Lori about Kozane's attempts to get her out of the house. Lori exclaims with savage bitterness, 'Charlie Kozane! Of all the Grade A stinkers! Charlie Kozane!'

Notes

  • While the published script has the villainous real-estate agent called Charles Kozane, the character's name was changed in the actual television series to Charlie Cousens.

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      :       Australian Broadcasting Commission ,       1967 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon Bellbird Barbara Vernon , Beverley Phillips , Peter Hepworth , Michael Jenkins , Ray Kolle , Alan Hopgood , Oriel Gray , Barbara Vernon , Australia : ABC Television , 1967-1977 Z1362910 1967 series - publisher film/TV

      Australia's first successful television soap opera, Bellbird was devised by writer Barbara Vernon and telecast by ABC Television between 1967 and 1977. The serial is set in a rural farming community, with the storylines examining the lives of various people from in and around the fictional township of Bellbird. Among the long list of characters introduced during the course of the series were the crusty farmer Jim 'The Colonel' Emerson and his glamorous wife Maggie, the local mechanic Joe Turner and his wife Olive, local policeman Constable Des Davies and his wife Fiona, the unpleasant stock and station agent John Quinney, and Jim and Marge Bacom, proprietors of the local pub that served as a central meeting place.

             Number in series: 1.4
Form: screenplay
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Close-Up : Scripts from Australian Television's Second Decade Don Reid (editor), Frank Bladwell (editor), Sydney : Macmillan Australia , 1971 Z159243 1971 anthology screenplay A selection of scripts from television programs telecast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission between 1965 and 1970. (See note below for the accuracy of this date span.) Sydney : Macmillan Australia , 1971 pg. 177-209
    Note:

    Includes script of episode 1.
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James Davern
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