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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Australian Telemovies
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A series of telemovies by Australian writers and directors, airing on successive Fridays nights in late 1986.

Each telemovie aired under the umbrella title 'Australian Telemovies'. They shared no thematic connections within this loose anthology structure, though they did share crew members (excluding writers and directors): for example, Julian Penney worked as director of photographer on a number of the telemovies.

Originally, newspapers presented the anthology series as six telemovies, but telemovies continued to air under this umbrella title until late November, for a total of nine telemovies.

See also

Canberra Times, 14 September 1986, p.11.

Notes

  • The otherwise unbroken run of 'Australian Telemovies' was interrupted on 31 October for the broadcast of the 1986 AFI Awards.

Includes

1
form y separately published work icon Two Friends Helen Garner , Australia : ABC Television , 1986 Z1360331 1986 single work film/TV
— Appears in: 'The Last Days of Chez Nous' and 'Two Friends' 1992; (p. 117-225)

Focusing on the troubled mid-teen years of two schoolgirls, this telemovie explores the change in their relationship over a period of a year.

 Australia : ABC Television , 1986
2
form y separately published work icon The Hour Before My Brother Dies Daniel Keene , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6075869 1986 single work film/TV crime

'Adapted from the stage play by Daniel Keene. Sally visits her brother Martin, the hour before he is due to be hanged for murder. What is the hold these two have on each other physically and emotionally?'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 21/6/2013)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986
3
form y separately published work icon Hunger Louis Nowra , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6975346 1986 single work film/TV

'A young Rumanian escapes from his homeland to find his way to Australia. Trying to get his wife out of a communist country, with little help from his new found home, leads him, after numerous frustrations, to a final resort - a public fasting campaign.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/1/2014)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986
4
form y separately published work icon A Halo for Athuan Alan Burke , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1986 6975499 1986 single work film/TV

'Mother Paul, after having climbed over the walls of the Athuan monastery, very quickly takes over the administration of the monastery's foundering cherry liquor business - she has her sights set on being the next Abbott...after that Rome!'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/1/2014)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1986
5
form y separately published work icon Mud, Bloody Mud Cliff Green , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6975674 1986 single work film/TV war literature

'A mixture of animation, documentary footage plus bringing to life the famous Australian comic strip character Bluey and Curly to depict Australia's involvement in the Pacific during World War II. Was it the only war Australia was silly enough to fight?'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/1/2014)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986
6
form y separately published work icon The Fish Are Safe Deborah Parsons , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6975808 1986 single work film/TV romance

'On a fly-fishing holiday in Victoria, Lena, an impulsive graphic artist, meets Ned, a 60-year-old cranky bachelor escaping the city. They fall in love. The fish are safe – but is Ned?'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/1/2014)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986
7
form y separately published work icon Displaced Persons Louis Nowra , 1984 11651544 1984 single work film/TV In November 1945, fourteen refugees arrive at the Sydney Quarantine Station. One member of the group is already dead and another is dying from an unknown and deadly disease. Australia : ABC Television , 1986
8
form y separately published work icon Natural Causes John Misto , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6975955 1986 single work film/TV

'Four friends are reunited who, during the '70s, shared everything - an inner-suburban house, dope, plonk and, afterwards each other. They also share a murky secret, which threatens to destroy everything they have worked for since.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/1/2014)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986
9
form y separately published work icon Times Raging Time's Raging Frank Moorhouse , Sophia Turkiewicz , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986 6976014 1986 single work film/TV

'Lauren is 38 and a successful solicitor. She is separated from Cam and involved in a relationship for which she sees no future, with David who is 28. Lauren craves motherhood, and recognises that biological time is running out. Cam offers a reconciliation, forcing Lauren to confront difficult and urgent life options.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 31/1/2014)

 Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 1986

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