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y separately published work icon Saturdee single work   novel   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Saturdee
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Saturdee Judith Colquhoun , Peter Hepworth , ( dir. John Gauci ) Australia : LJ Productions Revcom Television , 1986 Z1821281 1986 series - publisher film/TV children's

Based on a novel by Norman Lindsay, Saturdee is a fictionalised account of Lindsay's childhood, set in the equally fictional Victorian town of Redheap. According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, Lindsay

invented the central character, twelve-year-old Peter Gimble, as a projection of everything he would have liked to have been and he also included a friend of Peter's, Conkey Menders, as a representation of his real boyhood. Saturday was the day the boys and their friends lived for, a time of escape and adventures, after the chores of the week and the coming sabbatical gloom of Sundays.

Moran notes that since the writers and the director/producer had previously been involved with the ABC, it is surprising that this was not an ABC production. Instead, it was commissioned by the Seven Network. Shot over eleven weeks on location in Creswick, Victoria, the program cost $1.3 million to produce, but rated well with its target audience.

Notes

  • Prequel to Halfway to Anywhere.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Werner Laurie ,       1936 .
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      Extent: vii, 277 p.p.
      Reprinted: 1939
      Note/s:
      • Vignette title page and 54 illustations.
      • Dedication: To John Tremearne and our enduring friendship, this record of its nonage, N. L.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Ure Smith , 1961 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1963
      Note/s:
      • Vignette title page and 21 illustations.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       AMS Press ,       1976 .
      Extent: vii, 277p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Reprint of the 1939 ed. published by T. Werner Laurie.
      ISBN: 040414716x
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson ,       1977 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Edition info: Arkon ed.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0207134812
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson ,       1981 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0207142149
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Related Works

The Pariah Norman Lindsay , 1912 single work short story
— Appears in: Norman Lindsay's Book : No I 1912; (p. 25-32)
The Outcasts Norman Lindsay , 1915 extract novel humour (Saturdee)
— Appears in: Norman Lindsay's Book : No II 1915; (p. 89-98) Best Australian Short Stories 1971; (p. 109-121) Chapter Five of Saturdee
y separately published work icon Halfway to Anywhere Norman Lindsay , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1947 Z286591 1947 single work novel
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Works about this Work

A Pocket of Change in Post-War Australia : Confectionery and the End of Childhood Toni Risson , 2011 single work criticism essay
— Appears in: Pockets of Change : Adaptation and Cultural Transition 2011; (p. 208-229)

'...This chapter does not look specifically at textual adaptations, it uses two texts - Saturdee, a novel by Norman Lindsay published in 1934, and Anthony Kimmins's classic Australian film Smiley, released in 1956 - to examine shifts in children's status as consumers. Primarily, however, it concerns itself with the cultural transition that took place in Australia after World War Two.' (Source: Introduction, Toni Risson, 2011)
The Red Frog Prince : A Fairytale About the Shifting Social Status of Sugar Toni Risson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 9 2010; 'Once upon a time, sugar was a magical substance in an ordinary world. When it became cheap and readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, sugar and sugar confectionery became part of the ordinary diet, and have since fallen to the status of junk food, and, more recently, poison. But children relate to lollies at the level of imagination, so lollies are a vital part of the wonder of childhood and retain for children the magical cultural status once attributed to them. Allen’s red jelly frogs are banned from school tuckshops, but they play a noble role in opening doors for youth chaplains during the notorious Schoolies Week. Furthermore, the humble lolly descends from the elaborate sugarwork that once featured in royal banquets; it was noble all along. Lollies are no longer on the menu, and they do not even fit into food categories, but judgements based on food value alone fail to take into account the magical role they play in children’s lives and ignore the ways in which health authorities, artists, and advertisers use confectionery. Lollies have more in common with fairytales than food. The Frog Prince—a fairytale about a royal son who is turned into an ugly frog by a wicked enchantress and then rescued through his relationship with a child—is a metaphor for red frog lollies. This paper examines red frogs as sites of transformation, thereby repositioning sugar confectionery as magic and challenging dominant narratives that reduce the complexity of lollies and their cultural significance.' (Author's abstract)
A Bonzer Conundrum Fred Ludowyk , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , May vol. 10 no. 1 2003; (p. 1-3)
From Federation into the 1930s Joseph Jones , Johanna Jones , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Fiction 1983; (p. 25-43)
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Australian : Childhood, Literature and Myth Richard N. Coe , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 41 no. 2 1981; (p. 126-162)
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 March vol. 5 no. 3 1933; (p. 38-39)
— Review of Flesh in Armour : A Novel Leonard Mann , 1932 single work novel ; Saturdee Norman Lindsay , 1933 single work novel ; Art in Australia no. 48 (3rd Series) February 1933 periodical issue ; Australia: Human & Economic A. W. Jose , 1932 single work criticism
Amongst English Reviewers: Australian Novelists 1936 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 12 August vol. 8 no. 8 1936; (p. 128-129)
— Review of The Beauties and Furies Christina Stead , 1936 single work novel ; Earth's Quality Winifred Birkett , 1935 single work novel ; Saturdee Norman Lindsay , 1933 single work novel ; Under the Pepper Trees : A South Australian Anthology of Children's Poetry and Prose 1987 anthology poetry children's fiction Reprints of reviews attributed to T.L.S., The Observer and John o' Londons.
A Comic Masterpiece J. D. , 1933 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 March vol. 54 no. 2770 1933; (p. 2,5)
— Review of Saturdee Norman Lindsay , 1933 single work novel
Untitled R. G. Howarth , 1944 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 April no. 33181 1944;
— Review of Saturdee Norman Lindsay , 1933 single work novel
Two Poets Frances King , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 22 no. 2 1962; (p. 111)
— Review of Saturdee Norman Lindsay , 1933 single work novel ; Age of Consent Norman Lindsay , 1938 single work novel
Dust Jackets W. E. Fuller , 1934 single work prose
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 February vol. 6 no. 2 1934; (p. 44-45) Fuller discusses the advent of dust jackets and details some successful and unsuccessful examples.
The Red Frog Prince : A Fairytale About the Shifting Social Status of Sugar Toni Risson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 9 2010; 'Once upon a time, sugar was a magical substance in an ordinary world. When it became cheap and readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, sugar and sugar confectionery became part of the ordinary diet, and have since fallen to the status of junk food, and, more recently, poison. But children relate to lollies at the level of imagination, so lollies are a vital part of the wonder of childhood and retain for children the magical cultural status once attributed to them. Allen’s red jelly frogs are banned from school tuckshops, but they play a noble role in opening doors for youth chaplains during the notorious Schoolies Week. Furthermore, the humble lolly descends from the elaborate sugarwork that once featured in royal banquets; it was noble all along. Lollies are no longer on the menu, and they do not even fit into food categories, but judgements based on food value alone fail to take into account the magical role they play in children’s lives and ignore the ways in which health authorities, artists, and advertisers use confectionery. Lollies have more in common with fairytales than food. The Frog Prince—a fairytale about a royal son who is turned into an ugly frog by a wicked enchantress and then rescued through his relationship with a child—is a metaphor for red frog lollies. This paper examines red frogs as sites of transformation, thereby repositioning sugar confectionery as magic and challenging dominant narratives that reduce the complexity of lollies and their cultural significance.' (Author's abstract)
Norman Lindsay 1879-1969 Graeme Kinross-Smith , 1980 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Australia's Writers 1980; (p. 126-130)
From Federation into the 1930s Joseph Jones , Johanna Jones , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Fiction 1983; (p. 25-43)
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Australian : Childhood, Literature and Myth Richard N. Coe , 1981 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 41 no. 2 1981; (p. 126-162)
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