A five part series of drama documentaries based on the perils and adventures of well-known and lesser-known castaways of the South Seas
The Boy Chief of Tonga (3/9/1978)
In 1806 Will Mariner was captain's clerk on board a ship captured by Tongan islanders. He was saved from death by the local chief and later himself became a powerful chief and estate owner.
Will Mariner - David Mahon
Finau - Tu'iniua Tuita
Moenga - Taniela Manu
Mafihabe - Eva Ve'ehala
Researched by John Laynton
Written by Edwin Morrisey and Broce Morrison
Directed by Bruce Morrison
Produced by Edwin Morrisey
The Real Robinson Crusoe (10/9/1978)
Destined to become the Prince of Castaways, Alexander Selkirk was discovered an the island of Juan Fernandez 350 miles west of Chile, after having spent four years there completely alone.
Alexander Selkirk - Keith Hunter
Daniel Defoe - Ronald Adam
Minister - Campbell Godley
Spanish Captain - Jose deVal
Researched by Lilia Pether Pether and Ken Catran
Written by Edwin Morrisey
Directed by Mike Gibbon
Produced by Edwin Morrisey
The Bounty Mutineers (17/9/1978)
"By women and land, men are destroyed". A Polynesian proverb which proved all too true on the islands of Pitcairn following the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
Fletcher Christian - Anthony May
Ned Young - Michael Hadley
Matthew Quietall - William Hamon
John Williams - Ian Mune
William McCoy - Patrick Grant
Manari'i - Hemi Rapata
Researched by Anna Rutherford and Ken Catran
Written by David Yallop and Edwin Morrisey
Directed b Mike Gibbon
Produced by Edwin Morrisey
Mrs Thompson and the Convict King (24/9/1978)
In 1949 a survey party came upon a white Human lwing among aboriginals an one uf the islands in Torres Strait. She was Barbara Thompson, a 21-year-old Scots girl who had been shipwrecked there with her husband four years before all were drowned except Barbara, who was adopted by the tribe.
Wini - Patrick McCarville
Barbara Thompson - Kassie McLuskie
Boroto - Rex Liddy
Piaquai - John Rocky
Typati - Ellen Arthur
Deposed Chief -Alo Tapim
Zogo Priest - Edmund Ober
Zogo High Priest -Joe Billy
Researched by Jane Logan and C. McKenzie
Written by Edwin Morrisey and Broce Morrison
Directed by Bruce Morrison
Produced by Edwin Morrisey
Castaways of the General Grant (1/10/1978)
200 miles south if New Zealand lie the Auckland Islands - a group of small inhospitable islands where, in 1866, the most bizarre shipwreck in history occurred.
James Teer - Terence Cooper
Mary Anne Jewell - Annie Whittle
Willy Sanguilly - Simon O'Connor
Bart Brown - Joe Cecchi
David McClellan - Frank Grayson
Researched by Ken Catran and Colleen Hodge
Written by Edwin Morrisey and Bruce Morrison
Directed by Bruce Morrison
Produced by Edwin Morrisby
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