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Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Locusts and Wild Honey
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Film Details - Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980

Producers:

Oscar Whitbread.

Production Companies:

Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Production Designers:

Alwyn Harbott and Bob Walters.

Music:

Greg Sneddon.

Cast:

Including Frank Gallacher (Jan Kellerman), Beverley Blankenship (Anna Kellerman), Jan Morris (Nikki Kellerman), Sarah Morris (Tassy Kellerman), and Tim Robertson (Reverend Charles), as well as Gerard Kennedy and Julia Blake.

Jan and Sarah Morris are the daughters of Crawford Productions' regulars Terry Norris and Julia Blake.


Release Dates:

13 April 1980.

Notes:

List of episodes

[Note: the following information comes from the television guides in the Canberra Times.]

1. 'And the Spirit Like a Dove Descended' (aired Sunday 13 April 1980)

The first of a three-part series about mysterious sightings and events in the little seaside town of Flinders, Victoria. The Kellerman family lead a fairly uneventful life, until Mrs Kellerman experiences a strange dream. Stranger sightings follow and worse — Anna Kellerman's young daughters Nikki and Tassy disappear, only to reappear as suddenly. But the town of Flinders wants to know where they have been. (Canberra Times, 11 April 1980, p.22)

2. 'The Ol' Grey Mare She Ain't' (aired Sunday 20 April 1980)

The mysterious sightings and events in the seaside town of Flinders have more serious complications for Jan and Anna Kellerman with the unexplained disappearance and subsequent return of their two daughters. The family physician is called in to investigate and Lieutenant John Cody, an air safety investigator, makes a timely arrival. (Canberra Times, Friday 18 April 1980, p.24)

3. 'The Resurrection' (aired Sunday 27 April 1980)

There is still no apparent end to the strange events which plague the Kellerman family in Flinders. Lieutenant Cody continues his fruitless investigations and the Reverend Charles considers divine intervention. Fisherman Jan is almost shipwrecked but the miraculous appearance of his daughter Nikki seems unaccountably responsible for his safe return. (Canberra Times, 25 April 1980, p.18)


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