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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.....

[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.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

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

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

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

[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. :)