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Illustrated script cover page (from the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)

form y The Last Bagman single work film/TV crime children's

Alternative title: The Last Swagman

Author:agent Peter Schreck

Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 The Last Bagman

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1975 .

Script cover page (from the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)

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Extent: 30p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The Crawford Collection includes one copy of this script, copied on blue paper, labelled 'Code: 12511', with two cover pages: an illustrated cover page and a second cover page with crew details and episode duration. A notation in blue ink in the top right-hand corner of the illustrated cover page reads 'Peter Schreck'.

There are no other signs of annotation on the script.

Both scripts (the official script and the dialogue-only script listed below) are labelled 'The Last Bagman'. The cast list is labelled 'The Last Swagman'.

The file also contains the following ancillary material:
1. Cast list: a type-written cast list, with no confidential information.
2. 10pp. copy of the script stripped to nothing but dialogue, copied on white paper.

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Held at: AFI Research Collection

Local Id: SC SOL : 11

Note:
AFI Research Collection record

Director: Stewart Wright

Note: The script credits Wright as second assistant director: the spaces for director and first assistant director on the cover page have been left blank.

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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Seven Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Seven Network , 1976 .

Extent: 23min., 55 secs (according to the script)p.

Note/s:

Storey lists this as episode thirteen.

Series: form y Solo One Sonia Borg , Phil Freedman , Gwenda Marsh , Everett de Roche , Peter Schreck , Vince Moran , Keith Hetherington , John Drew , Keith Thompson , Denise Morgan , Tom Hegarty , Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1976 Z1814905 1976 series - publisher film/TV children's adventure detective Abstract
A spin-off from Crawford Productions' Matlock Police, Solo One transferred motorcycle officer Gary Hogan from the fictional town of Matlock to the real town of Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges, where the program was filmed on location.

The program, an attempt to capitalise on Gary Hogan's popularity with child viewers of Matlock Police and less adult in focus than its predecessor, wasn't renewed for a second season, after Cronin moved on to Crawford's war-time drama, The Sullivans. Don Storey, in his Classic Australian Television, notes that the program 'was very successful and received much critical acclaim', but Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, counters that 'Cronin, though lovable both to Crawford's and the Victorian Police, who were advisors on the series, was far too long in the tooth to be playing this kind of role'.
Number in series: 11

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