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The Coral Island

Produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Thames Television (UK)

Executive Producers: Geoff Daniel, John Hambley
Producer: Ray Alchin, Geoffrey Daniels
Writer: James Andrew Hall
Directors: Chris Thomson, Ray Brown, Ray Alchin

Aired: January 6 - 20, 1983 (ABC)

Based on the 19th-century novel by Scottish author RM Ballantyne, The Coral Island tells the story of three boys shipwrecked on a remote Pacific island in 1840. (9x24min)