Come Midnight Monday
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox television
| image =
| caption =
| genre =
| writer = Roger Dann
| based_on = {{Based on|Come Midnight Monday|David Burke}}
| director = Mark Callan
| starring = Stephen Comey
Tim Blake
Sally Boyden
Jacqui Gordon
Tommy Dysart
| composer = Kevin Hocking
| country = Australia
| language = English
| num_episodes = 7
| producer = David Zweck
| camera =
| runtime = 30 mins
| channel = ABC
| first_aired = {{Start date|1982|03|04|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1982|04|15|df=y}}
}}
Come Midnight Monday is a 1982 Australian children's TV series. It consisted of seven 30 minute episodes first broadcast in 1982.Albert Moran, Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, AFTRS 1993 p 124-125
Plot summary
Four teenagers fight plans to close the Winnawadgery railway, scrap its veteran steam engine Wombat and build a highway in its place. Their campaign runs into opposition from a prominent local businessman. They enlist the help of retired engine driver Angus McPhee.
Production
The script was written by regular Bellbird writer Roger Dann, adapted from the children's novel by David Burke OAM. It was filmed mainly on location at Cockatoo in Victoria. The train sequences were filmed on the Puffing Billy Railway with NA class locomotive 12A portraying the Wombat.
Cast
- Stephen Comey as Tim Forsyth
- Tim Blake as Squeak Hoolihan
- Sally Boyden as Beverley "Biff" Hoolihan
- Jacqui Gordon as Jenny "Bugsy" Hoolihan
- Tommy Dysart as Angus McPhee
- Peter Cummins as Albert Spack
- Cliff Ellen as Clifford
Crew
- Producer: David Zweck
- Director: Mark Callan
- Scriptwriter: Roger Dunn
- Sound recordist: John Beanland
- Production Designer: Paul Cleveland, Alwyn Harbott
- Music: Kevin HockingMoran, Albert, 'Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series', Australian Film Television and Radio School, 1993
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316972/ Come Midnight Monday] at IMDb
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Category:Australian children's television series