''Escape from Singapore'' is a 1973 Australian TV dramatised documentary about General Gordon Bennett and his escape from Singapore in

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.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p29 It was a number of dramatised documentaries Power made for Australian TV. He spent ten months researching it, accessing papers provided by Bennett's widow. It won Best Documentary at the 1974 TV Week Logie Awards.TV Week Logie Awards 1974
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Don Crosby George Wallace Donald Crosby, Order of Australia, OAM (29 October 1924 – 3 December 1985) was an Australians, Australian actor of radio, stage, television and film, radio producer, stage manager, airman and trade unionist. Early life The fift ...

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Martin Vaughan Martin Kevin Vaughan (5 June 1931 – October 2022) was an Australian stage, television and film actor and musician. He is best known for appearing in the film Phar Lap as trainer Harry Telford and the lead role in the award-winning 26-part 1976 ...

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* 1973 television films 1973 films Australian documentary television films 1970s English-language films Films directed by John Power {{Australia-tv-film-stub