All the Green Year

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All the Green Year
GenreComing of Age
Based onAll the Green Year
by Don Charlwood
Written by Cliff Green
Directed byDouglas Sharp
StarringCarl Hansen
Alan Hopgood
Narrated by Alwyn Kurts
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
Producer Oscar Whitbread
Running time30 mins
Production companyABC
Original release
Network ABC
Release20 October (1980-10-20) 
24 November 1980 (1980-11-24)

All the Green Year is a 1980 Australian television series based on a novel about three boys growing up near Melbourne on the eve of the Great Depression. [1]

Contents

It is based on the book of the same name by Don Charlwood, first published in 1965. The book sold over 100,000 copies and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic. [2]

Cast

Production

The novel was published in 1965 and was acclaimed. [3] It was set as a text for high school students studying English Literature in the 1960s.

In 1977 it was announced the ABC would make a TV series based on the book. [4] Filming did not take place until mid 1980. [5]

Although most of the series was set in Frankston, it was shot in Flinders. [6]

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References

  1. Albert Moran, Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, AFTRS 1993 p 52
  2. McGir, Michael (22 June 2012). "Notable storyteller: compassionate yet unsentimental". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  3. "BOOK REVIEWS A collection of Australiana". The Canberra Times . Vol. 40, no. 11, 436. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 April 1966. p. 11. Retrieved 21 September 2018 via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Four new ABC-TV programs next year". The Canberra Times . Vol. 52, no. 14, 882. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 15 September 1977. p. 18. Retrieved 21 September 2018 via National Library of Australia.
  5. "PRODUCTION notes". The Australian Women's Weekly . Vol. 48, no. 4. Australia. 25 June 1980. p. 61 (Your TV Magazine). Retrieved 21 September 2018 via National Library of Australia.
  6. "The charm of childhood escapades in All The Green Year". The Australian Women's Weekly . National Library of Australia. 15 October 1980. p. 26 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine. Retrieved 11 August 2013.