''Game of Life'' (also ''The Game of Life'') was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the

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and SBS in 1986. The format was a compere (

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) would teleport seven youths to a disco in the opening credits, one of whom would be chosen as that episode's reporter. Topic included leaving high school, sex and drugs. Mic Conway said, "It got a big response mainly from people who didn't like that it tackled "youth" issues like drugs, sex etc; just as families were settling down to dinner and the ABC news, so it was not taken up again." The eight episodes screened from Thursday 3 April 1986 on ABC, and were repeated twice on both ABC and SBS

Episodes

#Just Good Friends ''(3 April 1986)'' #A Way to Play Peacefully ''(10 April 1986)'' #I Feel Like I'm Thirty ''(17 April 1986)'' #Education Doesn't Mean Nothin' To Me ''(24 April 1986)'' #I Need a Job ''(1 May 1986)'' #Hey Mum I'm on TV ''(8 May 1986)'' #Youth Rules OK ''(15 May 1986)'' #We Live for Love ''(22 May 1986)''

Credits

''Reporters'':
Mark Wooder
Simon Peart
Brett Thomson
Angela Martinkus
Lisbeth Kennelly
Lisa Hensley
Simon Njoo
''Compere'': Mic Conway
''Miss Heroine'': Denny Gordon
''Soap box orator'': Ian Nimmo
''School teacher'': Peter Carmody
''Directors'':

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, Louise Meek, Hugh Piper, James Bradley
''Producer'': Jim George
''Production research coordinator'': Kris Wyld
''Production research coordinator'': Judy Menczel
''Production companies'': Communique Pty Ltd, Ultrafun Pty Ltd
''Distribution company'': Communique Pty Ltd
''Working title'': Youth in Australia '85p. 58, Cinema Papers, March 1986

References

{{reflist Australian educational television series 1986 in Australian television Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming Special Broadcasting Service original programming