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The True Believers
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. 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."
Seasons
- Season 1 — 8 episodes (June 28, 1988)
Cast
- Ed Devereaux as Ben Chifley
- John Bonney as Robert Menzies
- Simon Chilvers as H.V. Evatt
- John Derum as B.A. Santamaria
- Graham Rouse as Arthur Fadden
- Nick Tate as Les Hayden
- Gary Files as Fred Daly
- Stuart McCreery as Allan Dalziel
- Mary-Lou Stewart as Joanna Malcolm
- Dorothy St. Heaps as Elizabeth Chifley
- Leonie-Martin Smith as Ethel Casey
- Hec Macmillan as Sir William McKell
Details
- First aired
- June 28, 1988
- Episodes
- 8
- Genres
- War & Politics, Drama
- Network
- ABC TV
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 7.0 / 10 from 1 votes
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