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Year: 1980

winner form y separately published work icon The Men Michael Cove , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1979 7209096 1979 single work film/TV

The final episode in Cove's series A Place to Call Home.

Year: 1979

winner form y separately published work icon Neutral Ground Michael Aitkens , Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1978 7202765 1978 single work film/TV

'In Neutral ground Peter Sumner stars as Bruce Jefferson, an energetic advertising dynamo, and Cornelia Frances plays his estranged wife Joan, an equally dynamic magazine editor. They arrange to meet in a hotel suite, on Neutral Ground, to discuss the terms of their divorce.' ([Television guide], Canberra Times, 15 September 1978, p.34)

In 1980, a seven-episode series, Trial by Marriage was spun off from this television play: the series took place in the early days of the marriage.

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