Golden Soak

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| based_on = {{Based on|Golden Soak|Hammond Innes}}

| writer = Peter Yeldham

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| director = Henri Safran

| starring = Ray Barrett
Elizabeth Alexander
Bill Hunter

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| country = Australia
United Kingdom

| language = English

| num_episodes = 6 x 1 hour

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| network = ABC
BBC 1

| first_aired = {{Start date|1979|03|13|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1979|04|17|df=y}}

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Golden Soak is a 1979 Australian-British mini-series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia. It was based on the 1973 book of the same title written by Hammond Innes.Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p200

In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast under the title De Verlaten Mijn ("The abandoned mine"). Its theme music, The Lonely Shepherd by the James Last Orchestra and soloist Georghe Zamfir, reached the top 5 in the Dutch Top 40 in 1979.

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