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Awgie Award Winners 1968 - 2017 AWGIE AWARD WINNERS 1968 - 2017 1968 Major Award Winner Colin Free ‘Cage a Tame Tiger’ - Contrabandits (Joint Winners) Richard Lane You Can’t See ‘Round Corners (Television Serial) Children’s Michael Wright ‘The Poachers’ - Skippy Radio Jocelyn Smith I-Day Television James Workman ‘Target Smokehouse’ - Contrabandits Television Play Gregory Marton Silo 15 1969 Major Award Winner Alan Hopgood The Cheerful Cuckold (Tele Play) Radio Comedy Serial Bob Symons & She’ll Be Right Mate Trevor Meyers Documentary Joan Long The Picture That Moved Radio Play Ron Harrison Ride on the Big Dipper Radio Feature Joceyln Smith This is the Way We Stamp Our Feet Television Play Joan Baldwin Diana 1970 Major Award Winner Mungo MacCallum The Stoneham Obsessions (Radio Feature) Television John Dingwall ‘Everyone Knows Charlie’ - Homicide Television Tony Morphett ‘A Touch of DFP’ - Delta Television Play Pat Flower Friends of the Family Television Comedy Maurice Wiltshire & The Greater Illustrated History Antipodes Show John O’Grady 1971 Major Award Winner Michael Boddy & The Legend of King O’Malley (Stage) Bob Ellis Children’s Film Marcia Hatfield Molala Harai Documentary Reg Barry Seeds of Promise Radio Feature Ivan Smith Sounds Television Comedy Maurice Wiltshire & Australia A–Z John O’Grady Television Series Drama John Dingwall ‘Johnny Red’ - Division 4 Joint Winners Tony Morphett ‘Cry Me A River’ - Dynasty Film Joan Long Paddington Lace 1972 Major Award Winner David Williamson The Removalists (Stage) Children’s TV Ray Biehler The Trial of Brer Rabbit Documentary Anne Brooksbank The Choice - 1 - AWGIE AWARD WINNERS 1968 - 2017 Radio Feature Kevin McGrath The Defeat Television Series Drama John Dingwall ‘The Return of John Kelso’ - Division 4 Television Comedy Ralph Peterson Husbandry Is Not Just A Golden Ring 1973 Major Award Winner Tony Morphett ‘Freda’ - Certain Women Children’s Film Anne Brooksbank Avengers of the Reef Documentary Film Joan Long The Passionate Industry Radio Play Shan Benson The Saumarez Recordings Television John Martin ‘Five Pounds & 28 Days’ - Over Three Television Play Episode Brian Bell & Jane Courtney That’s Who Michael Jenkins Stage David Williamson Don’s Party Film Anne Brooksbank & Moving On Cliff Green 1974 Major Award Winner Cliff Green Marion (Television Play) Documentary Harold Lander What is Psychology? Radio Play Colin Free Nightmares of the Old Obscenity Master Children’s TV Play James Davern Alpha Scorpio Television Adaptation Eleanor Witcombe Seven Little Australians Television Comedy Alan Hopgood And the Big Men Fly Television Ted Roberts ‘Puss In Boots’ - Certain Women Television Roger Simpson ‘Talk Back’ - Division 4 Television Play Ted Roberts Three Men of the City Stage Play Dorothy Hewett Bon-Bons & Roses for Dolly Joint Winners Ron Blair President Wilson in Paris 1975 Major Award Winner Jim O’Neil How Does Your Garden Grow? (Stage) Documentary Roger Simpson Pearse Radio Play Shan Benson Family Occasions Comedy Bill Harding Norman Gunston - The Golden Weeks Television Yvonne Graves ‘The Glory Box’ - Stacey’s Gym Television Richard Lane ‘Beyond Enduring’ - Bellbird Television Peter Schreck ‘The Graduation of Tony Walker’ - Homicide Television Play Ted Roberts Lindsay’s Boy (Joint Winners) Margaret Kelly & Pig in a Poke John Dingwall Film John Dingwall Sunday Too Far Away Film John Power They Don’t Clap Losers - 2 - AWGIE AWARD WINNERS 1968 - 2017 1976 No Major Award Radio Jennifer Compton A Goose’s Bridle Telemovie Keith Thompson ‘Stopover’ - Homicide Television Cliff Green & Power Without Glory: Episode 1 Howard Griffiths Film Cliff Green Picnic At Hanging Rock 1977 Major Award Winner Steve J. Spears The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin (Stage) Children’s Original Roger Simpson Hunter’s Gold Documentary Guy Baskin Yagan Radio Original Harold Lander Down the Snakes Comedy John O’Grady The Postman Cometh Who Do You Think You Are? Television Serial Richard Lane ‘You Never Know Do You?’ - Bellbird Television Series Colin Free ‘A Shilling A Day’ - Rush Television Adaptation Howard Griffiths Power Without Glory: Episode 26 Television Original Margaret Kelly & ‘Theo’s Story’ - Pig in a Poke John Dingwall Film Sonia Borg Stormboy 1978 Major Award Winner David Williamson The Club (Stage) Children’s Vince Moran Mr Frederick’s Great Great Grandson Documentary Anne Brooksbank & March the Fourth Chris McGill Radio Colin Free The Clay Pond Comedy Charles Stamp ‘Palace of Dreams’ - Tickled Pink Television Original Cliff Green End of Summer Television Series Vince Moran ‘The Reunion’ - Hotel Story Television Serial Peter Schreck The Sullivans: Episode 237/8 Film Original Joy Cavill Dawn Film Adaptation Fred Schepisi The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith 1979 Major Award Winner Tony Morphett A Matter of Life and Death Against the Wind (Television) Radio Shan Benson “H” (Joint Winners) Garry Reilly & You Only Live Once Tony Sattler Television Adaptation Cliff Green ‘Dave Regan and Party’ - Lawson’s Mate Television Serial Graeme Koetsveld The Sullivans: Episode 433/4 Television Series Tony Morphett ‘A Matter of Life & Death’ - Against the Wind - 3 - AWGIE AWARD WINNERS 1968 - 2017 Television Comedy Geoffrey Atherden ‘Big Day’ - One Day Miller Television Original Work Keith Thompson Gail Stage Ron Blair Marx Film Michael Pate Tim 1980 No Major Award Children’s Alan Hopgood The Bush Bunch Documentary Don Meloche Coping with Life Radio Tony Scott Veitch A Crying in the Night Radio Adaptation Steve J. Spears King Richard Comedy Gary Reilly & Sunday Morning Fever Tony Sattler Television Serial Graeme Koetsveld The Sullivans: Episode 507/8 Television Series Roger Simpson ‘Natural Selection’ - Young Ramsay Television Series James Davern ‘Death of a Sailor’ - Patrol Boat Television Original Roger Simpson Players to the Gallery Television Adaptation Peter Yeldham Ride on Stranger Stage David Williamson Travelling North Stage David Allen Upside Down at the Bottom of the World Film Anne Brooksbank & Maybe This Time Bob Ellis Film Adaptation Bob Ellis Fatty Finn 1981 Major Award Winner Ken Kelso Manganinnie (Film Adaptation) Children’s Original Judith Colquhoun Cornflakes for Tea Children’s Adaptation Michael Noonan The Patchwork Hero Documentary Rob George The First Ninety Days Radio Ken Methold Stardance Radio Tony Scott Veitch Roses and Boronia Television Comedy Trevor Farrant Davey and Dyer Television Series Laura Jones ‘One More Season’ - Sporting Chance Television Series Peter Schreck The Sullivans: Episode 811/812 Television Adaptation Tom Hegarty A Town Like Alice Television Original Laura Jones Cold Comfort Stage Gordon Graham Demolition Job Film Original David Williamson Gallipoli 1982 Major Award Winner Ron Elisha Einstein (Stage Original) Children’s Original Dorothy Hewett Golden Valley - 4 - AWGIE AWARD WINNERS 1968 - 2017 Children’s Adaptation Roger Dunn Come Midnight Monday Documentary John Patterson So You’re Getting a Divorce Radio Adaptation Bob Herbert No Names No Pack Drill Radio Original Elizabeth Jolley Two Men Running Television Serial David Stevens The Sullivans: Episode 907/8 Television Series Luis Bayonas Bellamy: Episode 25 Television Adaptation Eleanor Whitcombe Jonah Television Original Laura Jones Every Man for Himself Film Adaptation Ken Cameron Monkey Grip Film Original John Duigan Winter of our Dreams Stage Ron Elisha Einstein 1983 Major Award Winner Hyllus Maris & Women of the Sun (Television Original) Sonia Borg Children’s Original Graeme Farmer Home: Episode 25/6 Tie/Community Theatre Debra Oswald Dags Documentary Michael Le Moignan Aldous Huxley & Lawrence Lucas Radio Helen Bulley Autumn Exchanges Sitcom Geoffrey Atherden ‘Arthur Needs a Holiday’ - Mother & Son Pilot Television Series Linda Aronson Learned Friends Television Series John Reeves ‘Carson’s Law’ - The Royston Trial Stage Stephen Sewell Welcome the Bright World Film Original Bob Ellis & Goodbye Paradise Denny Lawrence Film Adaptation Michael Jenkins Careful He Might Hear You 1984 Major Award Winner Robert Caswell Scales of Justice (Television Original) Children’s Original Patrick Edgeworth & BMX Bandits Russell Hagg Children’s Adaptation Rob George & Chase Through the Night John Emery Documentary David Rapsey River of Giants Radio Original Mike Kelly Going Up Sitcom Geoffrey Atherden ‘Maggie Alone’ - Mother & Son Television Serial Judith Colquhoun ‘When the Bough Breaks’ - A Country Practice Television Series Ted Roberts ‘Hands to Bathe’ - Patrol Boat Television Adaptation Frank Moorehouse Conference -Ville Stage Ron Elisha Two - 5 - AWGIE AWARD WINNERS 1968 - 2017 Film Adaptation John Patterson & Annie’s Coming Out Chris Borthwick Film Original Ken Cameron Fast Talking 1985 Major Award Winner Peter Carey & Bliss (Film Adaptation) Ray Lawrence Children’s Original Morris Gleitzman The Other Facts of Life Children’s Adaptation Sue Woolfe The Magic Flute (The Maestro’s Co.) (Joint Winners) David Allen Manila Yellow Documentary Ed/Training Christopher Lee Saturday, Saturday Documentary Issue Based Anne Whitehead The Loner in the Lodge Radio Original Gordon Graham Style of a Champion Radio Adaptation Richard Lane Great Expectations Comedy/Revue Sketch Patrick Cook, The Gillies Report Don Watson, John Clarke & Phil Scott Television Serial Leon Saunders ‘Beyond All Reason’ - Carson’s Law Television Series Linda Aronson ‘Stefan’ - Singles Sitcom Geoffrey Atherden ‘The Funeral’ - Mother & Son Television Adaptation Alrna de Groen Man of Letters Television Original Bill Garner One Summer Again Stage Original John Upton Machiavelli Machiavelli Film Original
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