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- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ↑ "TV—Channel 2 ABN". ABC Weekly. 9 March 1957. p. 35.
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- ↑ "Radio Stars in "Live" TV Play". The Age. 21 February 1957. p. 23.
