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- New Zealand Film 1912–1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p165 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019 558336 1
- ↑ "Alex | Film". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p4
