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Film Details - Network Ten ; Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1985
Producers:
Executive producer: Patricia Edgar.
Producers: Jane Ballantyne ('Just Friends' and 'The Paper Boy'), Tom Jeffrey ('Tarflowers'), Sandra Levy ('The Other Facts of Life'), Richard Mason ('Room to Move' and 'Quest Beyond Time'), Julia Overton ('Room to Move', 'The Other Facts of Life', and 'Quest Beyond Time'), and Jane Scott ('Top Kid' and 'On Loan').
Production Companies:
The Australian Children's Television Foundation
Finance Organisations:
Film Victoria, the NSW Film Corporation, the Australian Film Commission, the Australian Children's Television Foundation, and Robert Holmes a Court.
Patricia Edgar includes detailed information on the financing of Winners, including specific amounts from individual bodies, in Bloodbath (pp.158-161).
Director of Photography:
Yuri Sokol, Michael Edols, Robert McDonnell, Geoff Burton, John Seale, Andrew Lesnie, and David Gribble.
Cast:
Including Emil Minty, Harold Hopkins, Michele Fawdon, Marillac Johnston, John Walton, Belinda Giblin, Dennis Miller, Anne Grigg, David Woloszko, Vaness Goddard, Terry Donovan, and Nicole Kidman.
According to Patricia Edgar's memoir, the program employed 160 cast members (and 400 crew members).
Release Dates:
According to Moran, 28 June 1986.
Patricia Edgar notes that 'the biggest disappointment for the Foundation was that, for its initial run on the Ten network, Winners was not screened as a series or in a regular timeslot on the same night of the week. This meant its impact as an anthology series was lost and the audience had trouble finding out when it was on' (p.171).
