Convict Town is the first episode of the first and only season of Whiplash. It first aired on February 18, 1961.
Plot[]
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Australia...
...in 1797 prisoners from the jails of London, mostly guilty of only petty or political crimes - were deported to desolate Botany Bay.
Descendants of these convicts still lived in the bush in 1840 when Christopher Cobb, an American, came to establish a stage line and lived to become a legend.
Summary[]
Tom Ledward rules his settlement with a rod of iron much to his son, Dan Ledward, distaste and is determined to stop Cobb opening a new stage route. - Source: IMDb.com
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Peter Graves as Chris Cobb
Supporting cast[]
- Anthony Wickert as Dan Ledward
- Alex Cann as Tom Ledward
- John Fegan as Garth
- Ron Williams as Quint
- Noanie Rothsey as Sally
- Kenneth Goodlet as Mike Jacky
- John Armstrong as Storekeeper
- Phillip Ross as Matthews
Crew (and other credits)[]
Closing credits[]
- Produced by: Maury Geraghty
- Directed by: Peter Maxwell
- Written by: Dwight Newton
- Production Supervisor: Ted Holliday
- Musical Director: Edwin Astley
- Director of Photography: Ross Wood
- Supervising Editor: G. Turney-Smith
- Editor: Don Saunders
- Assistant Director: David Eastman
- Art Director: Peter Mullins
- Sound: Don Connolly
- Horsemaster: Lionel Ware
- Town Site by Courtesy of: Savoy Corporation, Limited, Sydney
- Produced by: Artransa Studios Australia; for ATV
- "An ITC World Wide Distribution"
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