Bodgie (film)

Bodgie is an Australian television movie, or rather a live television play with filmed sequences, which aired on ABC during 1959. Originally broadcast on 12 August 1959 in Sydney on ABN-2, a kinescope recording was made of the program and shown in Melbourne on ABV-2 on 2 September 1959. While mainly a live drama, it also featured exterior scenes shot in King's Cross and North Sydney.[1] Bodgie was about an insecure young man drawn into crime. Duration was 60 minutes.

At the time, most live plays broadcast on Australian television were simply performances of overseas plays. Bodgie represents an early example of depicting Australia in the context of a television drama, along with soap opera Autumn Affair (1958–1959), hospital series Emergency (1959), and a few other live plays.

Cast included John Ewart, Don Crosby, Lola Brooks, Douglas Kelly, Nellie Lamport, Nigel Lovell, Thelma Scott, and Louis Wishart.[2]

It is not known if the kinescope recording of the broadcast is still extant or not.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Age - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
  2. ↑ "Bodgie (TV Movie 1959) - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2014-03-13.

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