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form y When in Rome single work film/TV crime

Author:agent Charles E. Stamp

Issue Details: First known date: 1972... 1972 When in Rome

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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'PHILLIP REID: 25/27 Well spoken. Middle class. Able to ride motor cycle. Copies method of stealing learned in Italy. 5'7" to 5'10"
'SAMANTHA YOUNG: 22/24 No dialogue. Good young female face. Long fair hair. Should be able to ride pillion passenger in simple scenes.
'MAMA RUFFINI: 45/50 Italian born. English good. Hotel cook. Able to ride motor cycle ... 5'7" to 5'10"
'GIOVANNI (JOHN) RUFFINI: 20/25 Italian born. English good. Hotel cook. Able to ride motor cycle ... 5'7" to 5'10"
'DONALD MORRIS: 20/25 Australian. Boards with Ruffini's. Working class cook. Able to ride motor cycle. 5'7" to 5'10"
'BILL BROWN: (STAN MARSHALL) 20/25 Australian. Working class. 5'7" to 5'10" Able to ride a motor cycle. More dominant than Green.
'JOHN GREEN: (ALEC MASON) 20/25 Australian. Working class. 5' 5'10" [sic] Weaker than Brown.
'EDWARD FINCH: 45/55 Middle class business man. Well spoken.
'MR. KAVANAGH: 40/50 Commerical traveller type.
'LOSER: 30/40 Young executive type. Few lines.
'MR. FINDLAY: Young. Medium height, need not be able to ride. No lines.
'MR. JOHNSON: Young. As for Findlay. No lines.
'MARIO RUSSO: 35/40 Slight Italian accent. Working class.
'MARIA RUSSO: 30/35. Stronger Italian accent.
'MRS HAWKE: 40/50 Tough working class Australian.
'MRS GIBBONS: 55/66 Frail and small. Pensioner type.
'FIONA: Young. Healthy Australian bird type. Does not have to be able to ride bike.
'LOIS: Young. As above.
'MAN READING NEWSPAPER: 40/60. Working man. No lines.
'PEDESTRIAN: 50/65. Working on pensioner type.'

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

Director: John Jacob ; Simon Wincer

Note: Crawford Productions tribute website (crawfordproductions.tv) suggests that Wincer was credited as director and Jacob as studio director.

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Publisher: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network

Melbourne, Victoria,: Crawford Productions ; Nine Network , 1972 .

Extent: 48 min., 31 secs (according to the script)p.

Series: form y Division 4 Howard Griffiths , Charles E. Stamp , Douglas Tainsh , Luis Bayonas , Everett de Roche , Gwenda Marsh , Ted Roberts , Roger Simpson , Sonia Borg , Colin Eggleston , Michael Harvey , Phil Freedman , John Dingwall , Jonathan Dawson , Ray Chamula , David William Boutland , Tom Mclennan , Ian Jones , Keith Hetherington , Tom Hegarty , David Stevens , Terry Stapleton , Mark Randall , John Orcsik , Don Battye , Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1969 Z1814717 1969 series - publisher film/TV detective crime Abstract
Division 4, which Don Storey notes in Classic Australian Television was 'the only drama series on Australian television to rival the popularity of Homicide', was created as a vehicle for Gerard Kennedy, who had risen to popularity playing the complicated enemy agent Kragg in spy-show Hunter, after Tony Ward's departure left Hunter's future in doubt.
According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian Television Series:
The series differed from Homicide in being more oriented to the situation and milieu of a suburban police station staffed by a mixture of plainclothes detectives and uniformed policemen. This kind of situation allowed Division 4 to concentrate on a range of crimes, from major ones such as murder to minor ones such as larceny.
Though set in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central, 'Sets were constructed that were replicas of the actual St Kilda police station charge counter and CIB room, with an attention to detail that extended to having the same picture hanging on the wall', according to Storey.
Division 4 ended in 1976. Storey adds:
Division 4's axing was a dark day for Australian television, as within months the other two Crawford cop shows on rival networks, Matlock Police and Homicide, were also axed. It was widely believed, and still is, that the cancellation of the three programs was an attempt by the three commercial networks--acting in collusion--to wipe out Crawford Productions, and consequently cripple the local production industry.
Number in series: 155

1972 .

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

Extent: 73p.
(Manuscript) assertion

Note/s:

The script is labelled 'Episode HH4' on the cover page. There is no indication on the cover page of to whom this copy of the script was designated.

There are no signs of annotation on this copy of the script.

The Crawford Collection holds three copies of this script, one in this file and two filed separately.

The file also contains the following ancillary material, access to some of which is restricted:
1. Cast list
2. Casting call sheets

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Held at: AFI Research Collection

Local Id: SC DIV : 155

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John Jacob

Simon Wincer

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