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James Workman James Workman i(A22262 works by)
Also writes as: James Dark ; Victor Kain
Born: Established: 2 Feb 1912
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 28 Mar 2001 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1950-1959
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1 form y separately published work icon The Tichborne Affair James Workman , Brian Faull , ( dir. Carl Schultz ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1975 6097848 1975 single work film/TV crime mystery

'A claim by a bankrupt Wagga Wagga butcher that he was Sir Roger Charles Tichborne, heir to the Tichborne title and estates as twelfth Baronet, resulted ultimately in one of the most famous British criminal trials of all time.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 28/6/2013)
1 form y separately published work icon The Long Arm Ron Beck , Brian Wright , Tony Morphett , Rosamund Waring , James Workman , Andrew James , Kerry Hamilton , Andrew Coles , Ron Beck , Graham Ford , ( dir. Colin Eggleston et. al. )agent Melbourne : Channel 0 , 1970 Z1810793 1970 series - publisher film/TV crime

The Long Arm centres on an unidentified department of the Victoria Police headed by Inspector Dallas Buchanan. The cases involve all manner of crimes including those which would normally be handled by other specialist units.

Source: TV Eye Classic Australian Television
1 form y separately published work icon Target, Smokehouse James Workman , ( dir. Wilf Buckler ) Sydney : ABC Television , 1967 Z1805883 1967 single work film/TV

'In an inner Sydney suburb a notorious opium den continues its flagrant operation, and Chief Insp. Ted Hallam is requested by the Minister to eradicate it at all costs. When an informant is murdered, Customs Special Branch and the police move in on the den in a joint operation.'

Source: Storey, Don. Classic Australian Television. http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/contrab1.htm (Sighted 13/9/11)
1 form y separately published work icon Contrabandits Martyn Sanderson , James Workman , Colin Free , Brian Wright , Ron Harrison , Robert Peach , Allan Trevor , John Martin , ( dir. John Croyston et. al. )agent Sydney : ABC Television , 1967-1968 Z1805752 1967-1968 series - publisher film/TV detective crime

Contrabandits was a fifty-minute procedural series following the Customs Special Branch, an elite group of law-enforcers intercepting contraband in Sydney.

Colin Free was script editor for the series (as well as scripting several episodes).

Source:

Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series

Storey, Don. Classic Australian Television http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/contrab.htm (Sighted 13/9/11)

See also:

Musgrove, Nan. 'Contrabandits'. Australian Women's Weekly 4 October 1967, p.17.

'Smuggling Theme of New Series'. Canberra Times 18 September 1967, p.15.
1 8 form y separately published work icon Skippy Lee Robinson , Dennis Hill , Ross Napier , Ted Roberts , Joy Cavill , Lee Robinson , Denys Burrows , Ed Devereaux , Moya Wood , Carol Odell , Joan Levy , Rae Glasser , Warren Glasser , James Workman , Tony Booth , J. Benn Darrow , Dennis Hill , Creswick Jenkinson , Michael Wright , Maureen Walsh , Scotty Denholm , Suzanne Baker , Peter Finnane , Peter Kay , Kay Keavney , John McCallum , Will Pryor , Ron Taylor , Margaret Trist , John Warwick , Rene Devereaux , Alex McDonald , Phyllis McLean , Ron McLean , Richard Raper , Stephen Rhodes , Martyn Sanderson , Valerie Taylor , Albie Thoms , Alan Veitch , Brian Wright , Stewart A. Fist , Bill Lambert , Harry Woollerton , ( dir. Eric Fullilove et. al. )agent 1966 Australia : Nine Network Fauna Productions , 1968-1970 Z1624851 1966 series - publisher film/TV

Set in the fictional Waratah National Park (NSW), the Skippy series focuses largely on the adventures of a young boy, Sonny Hammond, and his intelligent pet kangaroo, Skippy. Sonny is the youngest child of Head Ranger Matt Hammond. Matt was left a widower in his early forties when his wife Mary died not long after Sonny was born. Other principal characters are Sonny's older brother Mark, Flight Ranger Jerry King (the park's helicopter pilot), and Ranger Clancy Merrick, the teenage daughter of another park ranger.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Reflections in Dark Glasses James Workman , ( dir. David Cahill ) Melbourne : Australian Television Network , 1959 7187971 1959 single work film/TV

A woman searches for her missing son, who may have been taken by her husband.
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