The series won an International Emmy Award for drama in 1981 and won a Logie Award in the Best Single Drama or Mini Series category at the 1982 awards with Morse, Brown and Jackson winning Logies for their performances. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. The series was a huge ratings success in Australia, getting a 49% viewing share. Just before the fall of Singapore, a young Englishwoman encounters a man with whom she has an ill-fated love affair. A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute 's novel of the same name. It was filmed on location in England, Malaysia and western New South Wales. It was the most expensive Australian television series at the time.

It stars Helen Morse in the lead role of Jean Paget, with Bryan Brown as Joe Harman and Scottish actor Gordon Jackson as the aging lawyer and trustee Noel Strachan. A kidnapped African woman becomes enslaved, and endures harsh conditions in South Carolina, eventually making her way to New York City during the Revolutionary War.

Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. A Town Like Alice: With Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee. Australian TV series or program A Town Like AliceĪ Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name.

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