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Film Details - Artransa Park Studios , 1969
Producers:
Ralph Smart
Production Companies:
Artransa Park Studios and Trans Pacific Enterprises
Director of Photography:
Carl Keyser
Composer:
Tommy Tycho
Cast:
Ty Hardin (Moss Andrews), Jonathan Sweet (Neil Winton), Sue Costin (Judy Plenderleith), Slim De Grey (Carl), Chris Christensen (Barney Duncan). Guest stars included Tony Ward, Rowena Wallace, Michael Pate, Bill Hunter, Helen Morse, John Meillon, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, Pat Sullivan, and Jacki Weaver.
Release Dates:
According to Moran, 5 February 1969
Location:
- Pittwater, with some additional material shot in Queensland.
Notes:
According to Don Storey in Classic Australian Television, 'The scripts were a bone of contention for the Australian Writers' Guild - they wanted their standard requirement of a 60 percent locally-written script content to apply, but none of the Riptide scripts were written by Australian resident writers. Thayer tried to justify the situation by citing that expatriate Australian Ralph Smart wrote some of the scripts. "There's a tremendous shortage of trained screen writers here," he claimed.'
List of episodes:
1. Bound from California (Robert Banks Stewart).
2. The Dangerous Pick-up (Robert Banks Stewart).
3. Jump High, Land Easy (Terence Feely).
4. Surprise Surprise (James Kelley and Peter Miller).
5. One Way to Nowhere (Robert Banks Stewart and Rex Rienits).
6. Chance of a Lifetime (Robert Wynatt).
7. The Boat that Went to Sea (Monte Doyle).
8. Echoes from a Lost Valley (Michael Noonan).
9. Lend a Helping Fist (Robert Banks Stewart).
10. The McQuade Myth (Bill Strutton).
11. The Captain's Blood (author unknown).
12. Affair at Mangrove Creek (Ralph Smart).
13. Sharky (Bill Strutton).
14. Dead but Not Forgotten (author unknown).
15. Daybreak Island (Donald Jonson).
16. North of the Headland (Ralph Smart and John Stanton).
17. Brethren Island (Ralph Smart).
18. To Murder a Mermaid (Monte Doyle and Ralph Smart).
19. Turnabout (Donald Jonson).
20. Down at the Bay (Ralph Smart).
21. Good Friday Island (Ralph Smart).
22. Hagan's Kingdom (Donald Jonson).
23. Game for Three Hands (Robert Banks Stewart).
24. Black Friday (Donald Jonson).
25. Flight of the Curlew (Donald Jonson and Ralph Smart).
26. Clean Sweep (Ralph Smart).
