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[dreamer_easy]

What the heck was that TV show they made us watch in primary school in the seventies, where the kids go into the bush with their teacher, who falls off a cliff and perishes, and then it's so cold they have to burn their map to light a fire? I assume it was an Australian show - there was a lot of British telly around, but it must be tougher to get lost in the wilderness in the UK than it is Down Under. I vaguely recall something about their following a river and finding a hermit living in a shack, possibly on the beach.

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[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

That rings a bell. I though t it was They found a cave based on the Nan Chauncy novel and made in 1962, but it isn't.....

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

BTW Nan Chauncy was a friend of my mother's (but I think you knew that.)

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

"Tangara" was one of my favourite novels!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

One of mine too, and I knew about his mum and Chauncy. They've told four times.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

That rings no bells whatsoever, so I'm assuming that by the early 1980s they'd stopped showing it to us.

I do remember Behind the News and that weird half-hour thing starring a very young Mel Gibson as a spaceman though.

[jesusandrew.livejournal.com]

No, I saw it at school in the early 80s, but I still have no idea what it was called.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's an Eastern States thing then.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

that weird half-hour thing starring a very young Mel Gibson as a spaceman though

THE HELL

[angriest.livejournal.com]

It was about how they make TV. The first half was a "making of" for a Wales Bank commercial, and the second half was a fake "making of" for a non-existent sort of sci-fi show with Mel Gibson playing an inept actor.

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

Behind the News still runs, but in a very different form.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

This might amuse you.
http://www.australiantelevision.net/list_date.html

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember Phoenix Five. As with original BSG, the music was better than the actual programme as I recall...or perhaps I was just too old for it by the time it got here.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Was it Walkabout (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/)?

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Probably not. That is a film, and I've seen it twice. There's no hermit, and it's set in the Outback. Good try, though.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

If it is, there was certainly more nudity in it than I recall. :D

[swiftangel.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what show you're thinking of, but I do remember being wonderfully weirded out by The Magic Boomerang when I would catch it on PBS. I loved that concept. :)

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I used to know one of the stars of The Magic Boomerang. No idea where he is now though.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It'll come back to you.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

boomtish!