''Top Mates'' is a 1979 Australian TV mini-series.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford University Press, 1996 p241

Synopsis

The series centres on two boys, Paul Jackson and Brett Towers. Paul starts attending a new school, where he meets Brett, and both run away from school.

Cast

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* Angela Gauci * Patrick Matthews *

Justine Saunders Justine Florence Saunders, (20 February 1953 – 15 April 2007) was an Australian stage, television and film actress. She was a member of the Woppaburra, an Australian Aboriginal people, from the Kanomie clan of Great Keppel Island in Queensl ...

* Tessa Mallos *

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Production

The script was written by Anne Brooksbank and Margaret Kelly, and the series was made by

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Release

It was aired by the ABC in Australia in 1979, and on

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in the UK in 1989.

References

External links

* Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming 1970s Australian television miniseries 1979 Australian television series debuts 1979 Australian television series endings Television shows set in Sydney {{Australia-tv-prog-stub