Bodyline (miniseries)

Bodyline (miniseries)

:"This page is about the Bodyline television miniseries":"For the events on which the miniseries was based, see Bodyline

infobox television
show_name = Bodyline


caption = "Bodyline" (DVD cover)
format = Drama, cricket
miniseries
runtime = 50 minutes
creator =
starring = Gary Sweet
Hugo Weaving
Jim Holt
Rhys McConnochie
Frank Thring
country = AUS
network = Network Ten
first_aired = 16 July 1984
last_aired = mid-August 1984
num_episodes = 7
imdb_id = 0086672 |

"Bodyline" was an Australian 1984 television miniseries which dramatised the events of the 1932–1933 English Ashes cricket tour of Australia.

The producers were George Miller and Terry Hayes . The directors were Denny Lawrence, Lex Marinos, George Ogilvie and Carl Schultz. The scriptwriters for the mini-series were Robert Caswell, Lex Marinos, Denny Lawrence and Terry Hayes. The music for the mini-series was written by Chris Neal and Phillip Scott. Photography was by Dean Semler and Andrew Lesnie.

The 10 part miniseries was a ratings success, and was shown over a four-week period.

Plot

The events leading up to the England Cricket Team Ashes tour of Australia (1932-1933) and the tactics, of bowling directly at the batsman, used by the English cricket team to the batting of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman during the Ashes series.

Cast

* Gary Sweet as Donald Bradman
* Hugo Weaving as Douglas Jardine
* Jim Holt as Harold Larwood
* Rhys McConnochie as Pelham Warner
* Frank Thring as Lord Harris
* Heather Mitchell as Edith
* Julie Nihill as Jessie Bradman (Donald Bradman's wife)
* John Gregg as Percy George Fender
* John Walton as Bill Woodfull
* Max Cullen as Chooka (the reporter)
* Vincent Bell as the Prime Minister
* Colin Croft as Sir Stanley Jackson
* Leslie Dayman as Bert Oldfield
* John Doyle as George "Gubby" Allen
* George Whaley as Lord Hawke
* Celia De Burgh as Mrs. Larwood
* Reg Gillam as Sir Clive Wigram
* Edward Howell as Lord Hailsham
* Paul Chubb as "Yabba"
* Arthur Digman
* John Clayton
* Peter Whitford

References

* "The Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia — Theatre . Film . Radio . Television — Volume 1" — Ann Atkinson, Linsay Knight, Margaret McPhee — Allen & Unwin Pty. Ltd., 1996
* "The Australian Film and Television Companion" — compiled by Tony Harrison — Simon & Schuster Australia, 1994

External links

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