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- ↑ "Ray Taylor stars in ABC's Flight into Danger". TV Times. 1966.
- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ↑ "Teletopics". The Age. 22 September 1966. p. 13.
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