• StatusEnded
  • Rating7.7
  • Created by:Not Available
  • Production
    CompaniesKennedy Miller Productions
  • GenreDrama
  • Episode
    Runtime50mins
  • First Air
    Date1984-03-19
  • NetworksNetwork Ten

Overview

Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.

Casts

Hugo Weaving

Gary Sweet

Jim Holt

Rhys McConnochie

John Gregg

Heather Mitchell

Frank Thring

Max Cullen

John Walton

Ashok Banthia

Alan David Lee

Bill Young

Richard Carter

Arthur Dignam

Jane Harders

John Clayton

Julie Nihill

Vincent Ball

Peter Gwynne

Peter Whitford

Bruce Myles

George Whaley

Paul Chubb

John Sheerin

Michael Winchester

Ned Manning

Leslie Dayman

Brian McDermott

Tim McKenzie