The Hungry Ones

Genre

drama television series

Country

Australia

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pair of husband and wife convicts try to go straight in a period drama set in Australia. The series follows their struggles and choices as they attempt to build a new life.

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What happens

The Hungry Ones is an Australian television mini-series. It was a period drama about a pair of husband and wife convicts trying to go straight, consisting of 10 30-minute black-and-white episodes, which aired on ABC. Unlike previous serials it was videotaped rather than performed live to camera. Notably, the cast included Leonard Teale and Fay Kelton. Also appearing were Edward Hepple, Nigel Lovell, John Ewart, and Brigid Lenihan. The archival status of the series is not known. It was among a series of four historical mini-series broadcast by ABC in the early 1960s, which had proved successful enough to encourage commercial broadcaster Seven Network to produce their own such series, Jonah, in 1962. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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