Spit MacPhee

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Spit MacPhee
Genre Mini-series
Based onThe True Story of Spit MacPhee
by James Aldridge
Written byMoya Wood
Directed byMarcus Cole
Starring John Mills
Phillip Hancock
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes4
Production
ProducerNoel Price
Running time4 x 1 hours
Original release
Network Nine Network
Release10 May (1988-05-10) –
13 May 1988 (1988-05-13)

Spit MacPhee is a 1988 Australian mini-series set in the 1930s. It is based on the novel by James Aldridge. [1] Also known as The True Story of Spit MacPhee it stars Phillip Hancock as Spit and John Mills as his grandfather. [2]

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Bob Hudson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, concludes "(Spit Macphee is a fine family story — a realistic tale that will draw you in from the first moment you see young Spit, hooting like a klaxon, leap into his beloved Murray River." [3] The Age's Barbara Hooks called it "a warm, wise and highly entertaining drama that also speaks with intelligence and eloquence about a universal and timeless theme — relationships between adults and children and the motive that enrich or doom them." [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p236
  2. ↑ St Claire, Lynne (14 September 1988), "Tough life for a boy and his grandfather", Evening Post
  3. ↑ Hudson, Bob (9 May 1988), "Spit MacPhee", The Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ↑ Hooks, Barbara (10 May 1988), "Adult foibles founder", The Age


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