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The result was redirect‎ to Michael Gurr as a broadly supported ATD. Owen× ☎ 13:33, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails WP:GNG. The only independent source which addresses the film in a scholarly way is the Murray OUP source which frankly is not significant under the criteria at WP:NFSOURCES. There's no critical commentary, and it consists only of a credits list and a brief one sentence plot summary. It describes the film as a "Tele film" but gives no named network or broadcast date. I searched TROVE database of Australian newspapers, magazines, and journals at the National Library of Australia and found only primary documents covering production costs as it appears the film was made through a government grant for developing young film makers (the production company Australian Film Theatre appears to have been a short lived government sponsored company that made only three works in 1985 before disappearing). I can find no evidence that this film was ever actually aired on television. It's very possible that it was never seen as there are no reviews in media archives or in google news, google scholar, jstor, ebscoe, proquest, etc, and no sources naming when it aired or on what network. The only thing I can find is credit listings that the film was made and went through a post production period. Best.4meter4 (talk) 05:06, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Theatre-related deletion discussions. 4meter4 (talk) 05:06, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Australia. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:23, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to the director/original play, for now.-Mushy Yank. 12:19, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Michael Gurr, the playwright. Not seeing much attention for the film or play but it does get mentioned as being by him. duffbeerforme (talk) 13:25, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect per above. I couldn't find anything about the film via a Google or Newspapers.com search. I didn't see much for the play either. It might be pre-internet coverage, but I'm not really finding much to bolster my confidence in that either. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:48, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. -Mushy Yank. 21:24, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. I think a redirect to Michael Gurr is a reasonable WP:ATD.4meter4 (talk) 00:38, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Elizabeth_Alexander_(actress)#Director or Delete. Fails to meet WP:NFILM. RangersRus (talk) 14:30, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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