Departmental

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Departmental
Directed byKeith Wilkes
Written byMervyn Rutherford
Produced byAlan Burke
Starring Ray Barrett
Martin Vaughan
Gary Day
Distributed byABC
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Departmental is a 1980 Australian TV movie based on a play by Mervyn Rutherford. It was part of the ABC's Australian Theatre Festival. [1] Reviews were poor. [2]

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Cast

Plot

The disappearance of money from a safe in a police station leads to an internal inquiry.

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p43
  2. "Culled Out!". The Australian Women's Weekly . National Library of Australia. 17 September 1980. p. 31 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine. Retrieved 14 July 2013.