True Believers (miniseries)

True Believers
GenreMiniseries
Written byBob Ellis
Stephen Ramsay
Directed byPeter Fisk
StarringEd Devereaux
Simon Chilvers
John Bonney
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersMatt Carroll
Sandra Levy
ProducerStephen O'Rourke
Running time8 x 1 hour
Budget$3.6 million[1]
Original release
NetworkABC
Release28 June (1988-06-28) –
16 August 1988 (1988-08-16)
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True Believers is a 1988 Australian miniseries which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War II up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.[2]

It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."[3]

  1. ^ Ramsey, Alan. The Way They Were. UNSW Press. p. 454. ISBN 9781742240220.
  2. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p243
  3. ^ THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TONGUE Wanda Jamrozik Sydney Morning Herald 18 June 1987 p 13