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- ↑ [ABC Local Television Programmes publicity file] Drama: The Happy Journey [Drama. Item contains correspondence relating to the programme] [Box 52A] [2p] NAA: SP1011/1, 590
- ↑ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (25 March 1944), "Coming on the air", ABC Weekly, retrieved 22 January 2024– via Trove
- ↑ "Watch for these...". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 August 1963. p. 85.