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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 The Geeks
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'Lee and Martin, Vinnie and Tina are next-door neighbours and the best of friends until Lee decides she and Martin should tell their spouses about their affair. Lee believes it will bring them closer together — she is mistaken.'

Source:

[TV guide], Canberra Times, 17 March 1978, p.24. (Read via Trove.)

Notes

  • Television play.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      Australia,
      c
      :
      Australian Broadcasting Commission ,
      1978 .
      Extent: 55min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Stuart Wagstaff's World Playhouse Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1977-1983 6993909 1977 series - publisher film/TV

      An anthology television series, in which British-born actor Stuart Wagstaff (who worked extensively as an actor in Australia) introduced a weekly telemovie.

      As the title suggests, the telemovies were drawn from overseas (primarily Great Britain, as the list below indicates), but also included Australian-written works: the inaugural episode, for example, was written by Colin Free.

      The quantity of Australian content fell away as the series continued, until by 1979 there was essentially no Australian content, the only exception being 1980 airing of an adaptation of Thomas Keneally's Gossip from the Forest, but the adaptation itself had been produced for British television originally.

      For its last three years, the program was a series of re-runs of British programs (with occasional American or Canadian episodes), with no local content.

      The episodes are listed below in running order (including Australian-written episodes), but only the Australian-written works are indexed.

      Holdings

      Held at: National Film and Sound Archive (aka ScreenSound Australia)
      Local Id: 778844
      Note:
      Documentation and publicity materials.

Works about this Work

An Eccentric Magnate and Wicked Popes, but No Stabbings or Rapes Ian Warden , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 1978; (p. 1S)

— Review of The Geeks Colin Free , 1978 single work film/TV
An Eccentric Magnate and Wicked Popes, but No Stabbings or Rapes Ian Warden , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 1978; (p. 1S)

— Review of The Geeks Colin Free , 1978 single work film/TV
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