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The Pickwick Papers (1985 film)

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1985 Australian film
The Pickwick Papers
Directed byWarwick Gilbert
Written bySteven Fosberry
Based onThe Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Produced byTim Brooke-Hunt
Starring
  • Colin Borgonon
  • Margaret Christensen
  • Wallas Eaton
  • Brian Harrison
  • Phillip Hinton
  • Richard Meikle
  • Judy Nunn
  • Henri Szeps
Edited by
  • Peter Jennings
  • Caroline Neave
Music bySimon Walker
Production
company
Burbank Films Australia
Release date
  • 26 March 1985 (1985-03-26)
Running time72 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The Pickwick Papers is a 1985 animated Australian TV film based on the 1837 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens.

Cast

  • Colin Borgonon
  • Margaret Christensen
  • Wallas Eaton
  • Brian Harrison
  • Phillip Hinton
  • Richard Meikle
  • Judy Nunn
  • Henri Szeps

Release

INI Entertainment Group Inc. licensed the film, alongside others in the International Family Classics library, to 20th Century Fox. To date, it's the only one known to have its rights utilized by the latter company, as it aired on HBO on June 14, 1989. It was released by GoodTimes Home Video on DVD, under license by INI's successor, Liberty International Entertainment.

Soundtrack album

The music score for this film by Simon Walker was released as a soundtrack album in 2002 on 1M1 Records (1M1CD1021).

References

  1. The Pickwick Papers, IMDB description page
  2. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 120.
  3. Greek VHS cover
  4. In-between commercials on YouTube
  5. The Pickwick Papers at Rotten Tomatoes

External links

Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (1836)
Characters
Places
Adaptations
Other
The animated works of Burbank Films Australia
Charles Dickens
Animated Classics
Sherlock Holmes
Animated Classics
Literary Animated Classics
Co-productionsAlice Through the Looking Glass (1987)
The animated releases of GoodTimes Entertainment
Burbank Films Australia's
Dickens Family Classics
Golden Films'
Animated Classics
Jetlag Productions'
Children's Classics
Co-productions


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