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- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
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- ↑ "Boredom Suicide". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 April 1961. p. 17.
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- ↑ Janus (19 January 1961). "'Gabler' Bought to Life on TV". The Age TV supplement. p. 3.
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- ↑ Lane, Richard. The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama 1923-60. Melbourne University Press. p. 57.
