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Castaway

A Castaway Production for Bayerischer Rundfunk, Scottish Television
and Australian Broadcasting Commision

Producer: James Gatward
Writers: Ian Stuart Black, Ralph Petersen, Ted Roberts
Directors: James Gatward, Frank Arnold, Henri Safran

Aired: Feb - May 1974 (ABC)

Castaway follows the survivors of a shipwreck and their life on a Pacific island in 1840. The sailing ship Mary Jane is Australia-bound with a mixed company of free settlers, militia, convicts and crew when she goes down in a cyclone. (13x25min)