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- ↑ "Bedroom scenes play really rocked Chater". TV Times . 25 October 1967. p. 1.
- ↑ "Letters to the Editor The Film Industry", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 27 February 1965, nla.obj-698589897, retrieved 8 January 2025– via Trove
