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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Strange Calls
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'Hapless city cop, Toby Banks, is demoted to night duty in the sleepy beachside village of Coolum, only to find himself investigating strange late night phone calls that reveal the bizarre truth of the town – a place where men turn into chickens, mermaids fall in love with locals and cats return from the grave...'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 28/6/2013)

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form y separately published work icon Phantom Anthony Mullins , Australia : Hoodlum , 2012 Z1881314 2012 single work film/TV

'Preparations for Sergeant Lloyd's production of The Phantom of the Opera are in full swing when the theatre is vandalised and the set dresser quits. It falls on Banks and Gregor to get the theatre into shape before opening night. Cue weird, spooky happenings!

'Gregor immediately points the finger at the theatre's ghost. Banks refuses to believe Gregor's tale and it looks like he's right, when they meet an elderly man, Burt Ferguson, in the theatre. Burt believes he is the star of the show, and that the year is 1942.

'Gregor thinks they've found their ghost — a dead actor from the past! Banks thinks he's just a senile old man. Gregor blackmails Banks to help Burt 'cross over' by performing a scene from the play. At the end of this performance, Burt disappears.

'Has he crossed over or made his escape?'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 28/6/2013)

Australia : Hoodlum , 2012

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First known date: 2012

Works about this Work

On With the Show as ABC Dramas Hit Global Screens Michael Idato , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 July 2013; (p. 14)
Boxing Daze Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 December 2012; (p. 18-19)
Nervous Laughter on the Graveyard Shift Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 November 2012; (p. 17)

— Review of The Strange Calls Daley Pearson , Anthony Mullins , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Comic Stuff Straight from Coolum Theatre Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 October 2012; (p. 17)

— Review of The Strange Calls Daley Pearson , Anthony Mullins , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Vintage Crocker Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 October 2012; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Jack Irish : Black Tide Andrew Knight , Matt Cameron , 2012 single work film/TV ; The Strange Calls Daley Pearson , Anthony Mullins , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Vintage Crocker Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 October 2012; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Jack Irish : Black Tide Andrew Knight , Matt Cameron , 2012 single work film/TV ; The Strange Calls Daley Pearson , Anthony Mullins , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Nervous Laughter on the Graveyard Shift Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 November 2012; (p. 17)

— Review of The Strange Calls Daley Pearson , Anthony Mullins , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Comic Stuff Straight from Coolum Theatre Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 October 2012; (p. 17)

— Review of The Strange Calls Daley Pearson , Anthony Mullins , 2012 series - publisher film/TV
Crocker Comedy Air Date Revealed Geoff Shearer , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 September 2012; (p. 52)
Coast Comedy Gets Call up for an American TV Makeover Geoff Shearer , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 October 2012; (p. 70)
World To Get a Laugh out of Reworked ABC Shows Michael Idato , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 October 2012; (p. 16)
Boxing Daze Graeme Blundell , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 December 2012; (p. 18-19)
Crazy Crocker Makes Spectacle of Himself Peter Hall , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 February 2012; (p. 15)
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