Games for Parents and Other Children

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Games for Parents and Other Children
Directed by Ray Alchin
Written byJohn Weyland
Produced by Charles Russell
Starring John Clayton
Colleen Fitzpatrick
Vincent Ball
Garry McDonald
Production
company
ABC
Distributed byABC
Release date
  • 13 March 1975 (1975-03-13)
Running time
60 mins [1]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Games for Parents and Other Children is a 1975 Australian TV movie. [2]

Contents

Premise

Two boys, Joe and Howie, discover their mother Maggie having an affair and run away to join the circus.

Cast

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References

  1. "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald. 13 March 1975. p. 24.
  2. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p66