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Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 Night Out
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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):


'NARELLE A fluffy blonde in her early 20's, somewhat childish and none too bright. She works as a prostitute and there is more than a hint of a lesbian relationship with her "Friend", Patsy.

'PATSY One or two years older than Narelle - tall and dark with a dominant personality. She favours clothes with a masculine flavour - although not too overtly so. For example, slack suits but never collars or ties. A fairly tough spirit, she is the driving force in her criminal ventures with Narelle.

'BRUCE CLARKE Mid 40's. Prize-winning door-to-door salesman of encyclopedias. Bespectacled, fast-talking would-be man-about-town. He picks up Narelle and Patsy, is robbed by them, and is in terror of what his wife will say.

'ERNIE JACOBS Late 40's - a big man, moody, with an explosive temper. A fellow-salesman with Bruce. He has lost his wife to another man, visits her while in Melbourne and unsuccessfully tries to argue her back.

'DENNIS MASON Age 23-28. The youngest of the three salesmen who have a night out. Good-humoured, eager to please, sensible.

'BRENDA JACOBS Late 30's. Ernie's run away wife. Attractive in a domestic sort of way, she is six months pregnant at the time this story takes place. She has left Ernie because he could not give her the child she wanted. A sympathetic character.

'TOM BAKER The man with whom Brenda is living. Late 30's or early 40's, must be smaller than Ernie, must be able to drive a truck. He is in league with some tough criminals, and helps them to organize robberies from trucks. His eyesight is failing because of optic nerve trouble. Occasionally, especially in moments of stress, he presses his fingers to his eyes, suffering a headache.

'MIKE BURNS / STEVE BURNS Two professional criminals - late 20's, or early 30's. Steve must be driver [sic], both should look good in a fight.

'EDDY GRIGG Mid-50's - respectable-looking, bespectacled, business-suited customer who is robbed by Narelle and Patsy. Appears in Teaser only. Car-driver. Losing his hair.

'BILL FRANKLIN Mid 30's, Tom Baker's mate on the truck. Two scenes only. A little dialogue.

'TRUCKY Any age, able to drive a truck, two scenes in which he befriends Narelle and Patsy when they are hitching a lift. Good, friendly type.

'TAXI DRIVER Any age. Two lines in one scene only.

'POLICE DRIVER (CONSTABLE HALL) Drives the divvy van with Dwyer. 20-30. Two or three lines of dialogue only.

'KAUFMANN Any age. Slight German accent. Manager of strip club. Appears in several scenes. Eager to get on the right side of the law, while keeping his customers happy. Money is his life.

'ROSIE BURNS Mid-20's, the wife of Mike Burns - she runs the roadhouse which they own. A criminal's wife - tough but with a certain homely quality. Not brassy or flashy.

'BARLADY: A motherly figure to whom the three salesmen tell their troubles.

'MACGREGOR A drunk, around 50, with a Scottish accent. Fairly rough, a regular customer at the police station. Likeable withall.

'"BENNO" BENEK MacGregor's companion. New Australian drunk, with little English or dialogue. The straight man in MacGregor's knock-about turn. Likeable and comic.

'WAITRESS Works in Kaufmann's club, young, sexily built, sexless personality. One scene only.

'HOTEL WAITER About 40, serves Bruce Clarke with champagne in his room. Calls the police when Bruce is robbed and is contemptuous of Bruce's association with Narelle and Patsy.

'THE POLICE

'YOUNG CONSTABLE Early 20's, works at charge counter with Scotty MacLeod. Straight out of police cadet school and learning the job the hard way.'



Notes

  • This entry has been compiled from archival research in the Crawford Collection (AFI Research Collection), undertaken by Dr Catriona Mills under the auspices of the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1968 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 65p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The script is labelled 'Episode G5' on the cover page. According to a notation in the top right-hand corner of the cover page, this is the copy designated for 'Audio 2'.
      • The script is labelled 'Police File', since the program had not yet settled on the name 'Division 4': other scripts from this era are labelled 'Saints and Sinners'.
      • The cover page has been signed 'Tim Shanasy' in red ink next to the copyright information. According to the Crawford Productions tribute website (crawfordproductions.tv), Tim Shanasy was a negative matcher and assistant film editor during this period.
      • The script is annotated in black ink and blue ink. The annotations in black ink show adjustments to and rearrangement of dialogue (see, for example, page 13-14). The annotations in blue ink show filming details. There is a moderate degree of annotation in black ink and a minimal degree of annotation in blue ink.
      • This is the first of the Division 4 scripts in the Crawford Collection to include character notes.
      • The final page includes a list of crew credits:
        Written by Howard Griffiths.
        Edited by Dorothy Crawford.
        Typed by Hilary Burgess, Margaret Younger, Christine Rook, Bambi Barrett.
        Checked by Margaret Younger, Christine Rook.
        Roneod by Doreen Arnold, Ian Dewhurst.
        The space beneath this for 'Producer's Remarks' has been left blank.

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC DIV : 4
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