Australian Walkabout
{{About||the radio program|Australian Walkabout (radio program)|the magazine|Walkabout (magazine)}}
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{{Infobox television
| genre =
| creator = {{ubl|Charles Chauvel|Elsa Chauvel}}
| country = Australia
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 13
| runtime = 26 mins
| channel = BBC
| first_aired = {{start date|1958}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1958}}
}}
Australian Walkabout is a TV series made for the ABC and BBC by director Charles Chauvel.{{Cite news |date=1957-12-04 |title=TELEVISION PARADE |volume=25 |page=12 |work=The Australian Women's Weekly |issue=26 |location=Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48530475 |access-date=2014-03-31 |via=National Library of Australia}} It was the last project completed by Chauvel prior to his death.
Lee Robinson later got the rights to the series and sold it to Germany and Japan.{{cite interview |last=Robinson |first=Lee |interviewer=Graham Shirley |title= Lee Robinson |type=Oral history |date=15 August 1976 |publisher=National Film and Sound Archive|url=http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;page=0;query=lee%20robinson%20graham%20shirley;rec=4;resCount=10}}
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External links
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- [http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=walkabout%20chauvel;querytype=;rec=4;resCount=10 Walkabout] at National Film and Sound Archive
- [http://aso.gov.au/titles/tv/australian-walkabout/ Australian Walkabout] at Australian Screen Online
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Category:1958 Australian television series debuts
Category:1958 Australian television series endings
Category:Black-and-white Australian television shows
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs
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