Colour In The Creek (Channel 9 1985 with Dennis Miller and Judy Morris)

Australia / Channel 9 – PBL – BBC / 10×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 1985

Writer: Sonia Borg / Books: Colour in the Creek and Shadows of Wings by Margaret Paice / Camera: Frank Hammond / Music: Terry Hannigan / Producer: Mike Midlam / Director: Rob Stewart

Period drama series. During the depression a Queensland family up sticks and move to the goldfields after the father hears of a strike.

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Filmed in the town of Rockleigh (an actual goldmining town).

cast
DENNIS MILLER
JUDY MORRIS
KEN TALBOT
PASCALE MORAY
HUGH CLAIRMONT-SIMPSON
PHILIP QUAST
ALEXANDER ARCHDALE
ALFRED BELL
JOHN EWART

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