AustLit

'The wife of a radio talkback star is raped by a property developer with whom her husband is about to sign a lucrative endorsement contract. The deal goes ahead and she is left to decide whether to push rape charges.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 5/6/2013).

Say You Want Me was one of six telemovies put together by Lynton Taylor, vice president in charge of programming at the Nine Network, in conjunction with Film Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation. Other films in the series included Peter Weir's The Plumber and Arch Nicholson's A Good Thing Going.

Say You Want Me was followed on ABC TV by a twelve-part television series (also written in part, by Say You Want Me script-writer Laura Jones), The Oracle.

Further Reference

James Murray. 'Peter Weir Film Highlights Telemovie Series', Australian Women's Weekly, Wednesday 6 June 1979, p.25.

Set in 1917, Let the Balloon Go tells the story of a crippled boy, Robert, and his attempts to overcome his physical disability. His overprotective mother is unwilling to leave him alone and unsupervised, until he convinces her one day that he'll be fine on his own. He promptly chucks his brace aside and scales the highest tree in town.