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Golden Pennies is an Australian-British television series which screened in 1985 on ABC and ITV. [1] The series starred Carol Drinkwater and Bryan Marshall. The ten-part series centres on the Greenwood family as they seek to make their fortune in the Victorian goldfield town of Jericho in the 1850s. [2]
It was executively produced by Christopher Muir, written by Graeme Farmer and directed by Oscar Whitbread. [3]
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