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A sequence in the final episode where Adam Quigg broke the neck of Paul Lovett in a fist fight prompted complaints about violence. The ABC's
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Russian dramatists staying more than five minutes with the first episode. The whole 50 minutes were so soporific and inconclusively brooding that I stayed the distance only because a cast of gifted Australians wrought
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is like a radio play with pictures. The pictures are superb... episode 1 was so slow-moving and uninformative as almost to be incomprehensible... the most earnestly solemn play I can remember the ABC ever producing... awkward, unreal and unnaturally sombre. The characters they have created are
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22 August 1973 - Helen Quigg leaves her husband, falls for
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639:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
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362:small miracles with the script...
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540:"TELEVISION Slow-moving serpent"
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502:The Australian Women's Weekly
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307:Alister Smart as Adam Quigg
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408:"Aunty's Dramatic year".
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425:"The Year at the A.B.C."
497:"ALF GARNETT MOVES UP!"
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