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Kate Ritchie in her first screen role, as Molly in Cyclone Tracy (screen cap)
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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Cyclone Tracy
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Mini series tracing the devastation wreaked on Darwin by Cyclone Tracy during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1974.

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, the mini-series fall roughly into three sections: the period immediately before the cyclone (in which the main characters are introduced), the night on which the cyclone hit, and the aftermath. As with so many disaster films and mini-series, Moran notes, Cyclone Tracy 'focuses on ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary event. The action is mostly documentary in tone and feeling, though one strand concerned with an American adventurer and a cargo of drugs is melodramatically quite out of keeping with the other stories.'

Moran notes that, American drug-runners aside, the mini-series works because of 'the low-key realism of the stories and the performances, the excellent special effects and sets, and the skilful integration of actual footage'. The program cost $4.5 million to produce.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      Australia,
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      PBL Productions ,
      1986 .
      person or book cover
      Title screen for Cyclone Tracy (screen cap)
      Extent: 4x60min. episodesp.
      Description: Produced on film; colour
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  • Darwin, Darwin area, Northern Territory,
  • 1974
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