All the Green Year
1980 television film
All the Green Year is a six-part Australian television series based on a novel about three boys growing up near Melbourne on the eve of the Great Depression, that aired on the ABC in 1980.
It is based on the book of the same name by Don Charlwood, first published in 1965. The book sold over 100,000 copies and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic.
Cast
Greg Stroud as Johnno
Darius Perkins as Charlie Reeves
Jamie Adamson
Sally Cooper
Carl Hansen
Monica Maughan as Mrs Reeves
Alan Hopgood as Mr Reeves
Alwyn Kurts as Older Charlie Reeves
Larry Held
Tracey Kelly as Eileen
Pepe Trevor as Kitty
Production
The novel was published in 1965 and was acclaimed. It was set as a text for high school students studying English Literature in the 1960s.
In 1977 it was announced the ABC would make a TV series based on the book. Filming did not take place until mid 1980.
Although most of the series was set in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, it was shot in Flinders.
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