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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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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.....

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.

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

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

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.

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

Maybe it's an Eastern States thing then.

"Tangara" was one of my favourite novels!

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

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

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.

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

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. :)

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

THE HELL

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.

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

It'll come back to you.

boomtish!

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

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