Poor Man's Orange

Television dramatisation of the second of Ruth Park’s novels covering the trials and tribulations of the poor Irish-Australian Darcy family of number 12 1/2 Plymouth Street in Surrey Hills - a Sydney slum. In this series it is the 1950s and all the Darcy children have grown up yet they still have to face the problems of their working class background.

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Credits

director

George Whaley

producer

Anthony Buckley

production company

Anthony Buckley Productions

Duration

02:58:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1987

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324680

Language

English

Subject categories

Adaptations

Drama

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes - Australia

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Poverty - Australia

History → Australia - History - 1945-1965

History → Poverty - Australia

Literature → Australian literature - Film and video adaptations

Television

Television → Mini-series

Television → Television series

Television → Television series → Television series - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1987

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