The Hungry Ones
1963 Australian television series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Hungry Ones was an Australian television mini-series. It was a period drama about a pair of husband and wife convicts trying to go straight, consisting of 10 30-minute black-and-white episodes, which aired on ABC. Unlike previous serials it was videotaped rather than performed live to camera.[1]
The Hungry Ones | |
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Genre | Mini-series |
Written by | Rex Rienits |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Producer | Colin Dean |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ABC Television |
Release | 7 July (1963-07-07) ā 8 September 1963 (1963-09-08) |
Notably, the cast included Leonard Teale and Fay Kelton. Also appearing were Edward Hepple, Nigel Lovell, John Ewart, and Brigid Lenihan.[2][3]
The archival status of the series is not known. It was among a series of four historical mini-series broadcast by ABC in the early 1960s, which had proved successful enough to encourage commercial broadcaster Seven Network to produce their own such series, Jonah, in 1962.[4]