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A Drop In The Ocean is an Australian children's television series which first screened on the ABC in 1972. A sequel drama called Birds of Passage was made.

Plot

A Drop In The Ocean follows the story of three children who became involved with smugglers. It was filmed around the wharves and slipways of Balmain on Sydney Harbour.

Production

The series was produced by the ABC's "Young People's Department". The episodes were also edited together as a film to screen overseas. Most of the dialogue for the film is improvised. Director Barry Sloane told the Sun Herald: "It gives enormous advantages when working with child actors, and leads to a more natural film."

Cast

• Kate Fitzpatrick as Shirl (a crook)
• Don Barkham as Dingo (Shirl's male accomplice)
• Matthew Crosby (son of actor Don Crosby.)
• Michelle Booker
• Carlos Merlo

See also

• List of Australian television series

References

1. "A Drop In The Ocean". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 40, no. 21. Australia. 25 October 1972. p. 10. Retrieved 27 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
2. Page 61, The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 29 October 1972
3. Page 105, The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 11 June 1972
4. The matriarch's legendary heart, 2 June 2006, The Sydney Morning Herald, ...the actor Don Crosby...Matthew, an actor...

External links

• A Drop In The Ocean at Classic TV Australia

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