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Saturdee

An LJ Production
in association with the Seven Network and Film Victoria

Creator: Norman Lindsay
Executive Producers: Steve Vizard
Producers: Louise Hall, John Gauci
Writers: Judith Colquhoun, Peter Hepworth
Director: John Gauci

Aired: May 9 - July 11, 1986

Children's series set in the small town of Redheap in the 1920s. Adapted the novel by Norman Lindsay, Saturdee tells the story of 12-year-old Peter Gimble and his friends as they unremittingly pursue fun, freedom and the mysteries of the female in the face of Redheap's sleepy but repressive narrowness. (10 x 30min)

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