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Cornflakes For Tea
''Cornflakes for Tea'' is a 1981 Australian children's miniseries.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 129 Cast * Bunny Brooke as Mrs Lewis * Kerry Armstrong as Cheryl * Max Cullen as Stan * Howard Kloester as Richard * Linda Hartley as Trish * Tamblyn Lord as Chris * Beverley Dunn * Bruce Kerr as Forbes Townsend * Bruce D'Amico as Silvio * Candy Raymond as Robin Hart * George Mallaby as Magistrate * Peggy Nicholls as Mrs Barker * Jan Friedl as Mrs Fletcher * Helen Noonan as Concetta * Bill Rose as Prosecutor Story The series is about three children abandoned by parents, who are hiding from authorities so they can reunite with their grandmother. References External links ''Cornflakes for Tea''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunny Brooke
Dorothy Cronin (9 January 1920 – 2 April 2000), professionally known as Bunney Brooke, was an Australian actress, creator, producer, director, designer, playwright and casting agent, best known for her being one of the early faces of Australian television. Known for her television, movie, theatre acting and comedy roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in the soap opera and movie release version of ''Number 96'' in the 1970s (a role for which she won a Silver Logie Award), and in her later years to a new generation of viewers in her role as Helen "Nell" Rickards in children's series ''Round the Twist'' (1989 and 1992) and her role as Violet "Vi" Patchett in '' E Street'' (1990). Personal life Brooke was born as Dorothy Cronin in Bendigo, Victoria, adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. She was raised by foster parents, and then later joined the Australian Army at the age of 18. As a young adult, she saw marriage as a means of escape, mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Australian Television Series Endings
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