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- 1 2 "The Prop Man Wrote a Play". TV Times. 10 December 1959. p. 5.
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- ↑ "From comic opera to tense jungle drama". The Age. 22 October 1959.
- ↑ "Kunai Grass for Jungle Drama". The Age. 12 November 1959. p. 13.
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