Jonah (1982 miniseries)

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| based_on = {{based on|Jonah|Louis Stone}}

| writer = Eleanor Witcombe

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| director = Eric Tayler

| starring = Jonathan Sweet
Claire Crowther
Liddy Clark
Steve Bisley
June Salter
Mark Hembrow

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| country = Australia

| language = English

| num_episodes = 4

| producer = Alan Burke

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| runtime = 60 minutes

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| network = ABC

| first_aired = {{Start date|1982|03|14|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1982|04|04|df=y}}

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Jonah is a 1982 Australian mini series based on the novel of the same name by Louis Stone. It is about Jonah, leader of a street gang who goes into business.{{cite book |editor=Scott Murray |title=Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1996|page=207 |isbn=0195539494}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47230568 |title=A Jonah makes life sweet for Jonathan |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=48 |issue=51 |date=27 May 1981 |accessdate=27 February 2016 |page=124 (TV WORLD) |via=National Library of Australia}}

The novel was published in 1911.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15281400 |title=AN AUSTRALIAN NOVEL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=23,012 |date=14 October 1911 |accessdate=27 February 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}