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- Director: James Davern
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- Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Commission
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Link: 19048275Digitised script Sighted: 16/04/2020Series: form y Bellbird 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: 1.1Holdings
Held at: National Archives of Australia National Archives LibraryLocal Id: 12822673
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Close-Up : Scripts from Australian Television's Second Decade
Don Reid
(editor),
Frank Bladwell
(editor),
Sydney
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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 4.
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y
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
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- Victoria,
- Country towns,