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[Alan Hopgood Collection]
Call No: DONATION - ALAN HOPGOODSource: ATPhysDes: 1 boxSubject: HOPGOOD, ALAN ; ALVIN PURPLE (AT, Tim Burstall, 1973) ; ALVIN RIDES AGAIN (AT, David Bilcock & Robin Copping, 1974) ; BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) ; PACIFIC BANANA (AT, John Lamond, 1981) Summary: A donated collection of items from Alan Hopgood to the AFI Research Collection.
Alan Hopgood has been a long-time writer and actor within the Australian film, tv, and theatre scene. His work includes screenplays for films such as Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Pacific Banana, as well as television shows such as Bellbird, Alvin Purple, And the Big Men Fly, Neighbours, Pugwall, and The Flying Doctors.
Alan was involved with Bellbird when the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had made a decision to change the screening time of its show Bellbird. This did not sit well with a large selection of the viewing public who protested this move and wrote to the ABC to complain. Alan kept those letters in a view to get them published in a book, which didn’t eventuate. These letters were kept and are part of Alan’s donation to the AFI Research CollectionDonation: donated by Alan Hopgood, 2010ID2: 56
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Bellbird : The story of a country town / Barbara Vernon Sydney: Ure Smith, 1971.
Call No: N79 BEL VERAuthor: Vernon, Barbara Edition: PaperbackSource: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: Ure SmithPubDate: 1971PhysDes: 246 p. ; 12 cmSubject: BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) Notes: First published in 1970 by Ure SmithISBN: 072540051
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BELLBIRD [TV] : (AT, 1967-1977) Digital clippings file available
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A big day at Bellbird / Barbara Vernon Cammeray, NSW: Horwitz, 1972.
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Close-up : scripts from Australian television's second decade / editors, Don Reid, Frank Bladwell South Melbourne: Macmillan of Australia [for the] English Teachers' Association of New South Wales, 1971.
Call No: 792 CLOAuthor: Reid, Don C., ; Bladwell, Francis Frederick CorpAuthor: English Teachers' Association of New South WalesPlace: South MelbournePublisher: Macmillan of Australia [for the] English Teachers' Association of New South WalesPubDate: 1971PhysDes: 226 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: DELTA [TV] (AT, 1969-70) ; PIGEON, THE [TV] (AT, 1966) ; DYNASTY [TV] (AT, Frank Arnold & Brian Bell, 1970) ; SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS [TV] (AT, Ron Way, 1973) ; BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) ; MEN OF THE ENDEAVOUR [TV] (AT, 1970) ISBN: 0333119576LON: 230369
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Creating Australian television drama / Susan Lever North Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020.
Call No: 224(94) LEVAuthor: Lever, Susan Edition: 2020Place: North Melbourne, VictoriaPublisher: Australian Scholarly PublishingPubDate: 2020PhysDes: viii,282 pages ; 24cmSubject: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS AND TV ; ADAPTATIONS ; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ; AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION ; BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) ; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION ; COX, DEB ; CRAWFORD PRODUCTIONS ; DOCUMENTARIES. AUSTRALIA ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; GREEN, CLIFFORD ; HOMICIDE [TV] (AT, 1964-1975) ; HOPGOOD, ALAN ; KELLY, MARGARET ; MELODRAMA. AUSTRALIA ; MORPHETT, TONY ; MY NAME'S MCGOOLEY, WHAT'S YOURS? [TV] (AT, 1966-1968) ; NINE NETWORK ; POWER WITHOUT GLORY [TV] (AT, 1976) ; SEVEN NETWORK ; SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE ; YELDHAM, PETER Summary: Television drama has been the dominant form of popular storytelling for more than sixty years, shaping the imaginations of millions of people. This book surveys the careers of the central creators of those stories for Australian television—the writers who learnt how to work in a new medium, adapting to its constraints and exploring its creative possibilities. Informed by interviews with many writers, it describes the establishment of Australian television drama production, observing the way writers grasped the creative and business opportunities that television presented. It examines the development of Australian versions of the major television genres—the sitcom, the police drama, the historical series, docudrama, and social drama— presenting a ‘canon’ of significant Australian television drama productions that deserve to be remembered. It offers an account of the emergence of work by Indigenous writers for television and it argues for the consideration of television drama alongside histories of Australian film and stage drama. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781925984880
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News in Lumiere (July 1970) vol.1 iss.2 p.44-45
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Our First Million Words : Or How I Learned To Stop Apologising and Love Bellbird in Lumiere (July 1970) vol.1 iss.2 p.3-5, 7
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Soap box : the Australian guide to television soap operas / by Hilary Kingsley South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1989.
Call No: 725.312 KINAuthor: Kingsley, Hilary Source: ATPlace: South MelbournePublisher: Sun BooksPubDate: 1989PhysDes: 336 p. : ill., ports ; 22 cmSubject: SOAP OPERAS ; SOAP OPERAS. AUSTRALIA ; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA ; BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) ; SULLIVANS, THE [TV] (AT, 1975-1982) ; COP SHOP [TV] (AT, 1977-84) ; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) ; COUNTRY PRACTICE, A [TV] (AT, 1981-1995?) ; SONS AND DAUGHTERS [TV] (AT, 1982-87) ; CARSON'S LAW [TV] (AT, 1983) ; NEIGHBOURS [TV] (AT, 1985-) ; PRIME TIME [TV] (AT, 1986) ; FLYING DOCTORS, THE [TV] (AT, 1986-91) ; RICHMOND HILL [TV] (AT, Gary Conway, 1988) ; HOME AND AWAY [TV] (AT, 1988 -) Notes: Bibliography: p.328; Includes indexISBN: 0725105739
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Super Aussie soaps : behind the scenes of Australia's best loved TV shows / Andrew Mercado North Melbourne, Vic.: Pluto Press, 2004.
Call No: 725.312(94)Author: Mercado, Andrew Source: ATPlace: North Melbourne, Vic.Publisher: Pluto PressPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 414 p.: col. ill. ; 23 cmSubject: SOAP OPERAS. AUSTRALIA ; NEIGHBOURS [TV] (AT, 1985-) ; HOME AND AWAY [TV] (AT, 1988 -) ; SONS AND DAUGHTERS [TV] (AT, 1982-87) ; KATH AND KIM [TV] (AT, 2002-) ; NUMBER 96 [TV] (AT, 1972-1978) ; COUNTRY PRACTICE, A [TV] (AT, 1981-1995?) ; SULLIVANS, THE [TV] (AT, 1975-1982) ; COP SHOP [TV] (AT, 1977-84) ; BELLBIRD [TV] (AT, 1967-1977) ; PACIFIC DRIVE [TV] (AT, 1996) ; PARADISE BEACH [TV] (AT, 1993-1994) ; SECRET LIFE OF US, THE [TV] (AT, Lynn-Maree Danzey, 2000-) ; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) Summary: Australian television celebrity and insider Andrew Mercado investigates and interviews the producers, the directors, the writers and such soap legends as Rowena Wallace, Lorraine Bayly, Paula Duncan, Rebecca Gilling, Melissa Tkautz, Terry Norris and Jeremy Sims to find out new details about these infamous serials. Learn about every soap ever made for Australian television. Presented in chronological order; the stories include never-before-seen photos, comprehensive synopses of the major storylines, those crazy cliffhangers and hilarious anecdotes.ISBN: 1864031913
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