Golden Soak

Golden Soak is a 1979 Australian-British mini-series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia. It was based on the 1973 book of the same title written by Hammond Innes.^[1]

Golden Soak
Based on	Golden Soak by Hammond Innes
Written by	Peter Yeldham
Directed by	Henri Safran
Starring	Ray Barrett Elizabeth Alexander Bill Hunter
Country of origin	Australia United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	6 x 1 hour
Original release
Network	ABC BBC 1
Release	13 March (1979-03-13) – 17 April 1979 (1979-04-17)

In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast under the title De Verlaten Mijn ("The abandoned mine"). Its theme music, The Lonely Shepherd by the James Last Orchestra and soloist Georghe Zamfir, reached the top 5 in the Dutch Top 40 in 1979.

Cast

• Ray Barrett as Alec Hamilton
• Elizabeth Alexander as Janet Garrety
• Bill Hunter as Chris Culpin
• Christiane Kruger as Rosa Hamilton
• David Cameron as Johnny Culpin
• Ruth Cracknell as Prophesy
• Les Foxcroft as Jacko