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Film Details - Mende Brown Productions , 1973
Producers:
Mende Brown
Production Companies:
Mende Brown Productions
Finance Organisations:
Partly funded by the Nine Network
Editors:
Richard Hindley
Music:
Laurie Lewis
Cast:
Leslie Nielsen, John Morris, June Thody, Tony Bonner, Neva Carr Glyn, Vic Morrow, Darren McGavin, Ray Walston
Release Dates:
First air date : 19 June 1973 (Nine Network). The final air date for this initial broadcast was 9 June 1974.
Location:
- Sydney area
Notes:
According to Moran 'to lure actors such as McGavin to Australia for their episode appearances, Brown allowed them to sit in the director's chair'.
The series was broadcast at 8:30pm on Thursdays. It was also shown on the NBC Network in the United States.
Details for all twenty-six episodes are available on IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069580/episodes
Some episodes are available online.
List of episodes:
1. The Lake (Robert Earll and R. David McGonagle)
2. Heart to Heart (Sylvester Stallone)
3. Dr McDermitt's New Patients
4. The Obituary (Michael Fisher)
5. Happy New Year, Aunt Carrie (Michael Fisher)
6. A Game of Hearts (Michael Fisher)
7. Seeing is Believing (Ethel Brez and Mel Brez)
8. The Upper Hand (Ethel Brez and Mel Brez)
9. Murder is for the Birds (Michael Fisher and Don Haberman)
10. Marcie (Ron McLean and Virginia Bell)
11. George (Steve Fisher)
12. Scared to Death (Ethel Brez and Mel Brez)
13. The Homecoming (Michael Fisher)
14. Dear Beloved Monster (Tony Morphett)
15. Campaign 20 (Linda Fisher)
16. Faulkner's Choice
17. Dear Cora, I'm Going to Kill You (Michael Fisher)
18. The Trial (Michael Fisher)
19. The Fans (Ron McLean)
20. Kadaitcha Country (Ron McLean)
21. Gornak's Prism (Jerome Coopersmith)
22. The Voyage (Robert Earll)
23. Dream by Dreaming (Mel Goldberg and Arthur H. Singer)
24. Never Fool with a Gypsy Icon (Larry Spiegel)
25. They (Norman Thaddeus Vane)
26. Wings of Death (Ethel Brez and Mel Brez)
