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Bodyline (DVD cover) |
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| Format | Drama, cricket miniseries |
| Starring | Gary Sweet Hugo Weaving Jim Holt Rhys McConnochie Frank Thring |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Running time | 50 minutes |
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| Original channel | Network Ten |
| Original run | 16 July 1984 – mid-August 1984 |
Bodyline is an Australian 1984 television miniseries which dramatised the events of the 1932–1933 English Ashes cricket tour of Australia.
The producers were George Miller and Terry Hayes. The directors were Denny Lawrence, Lex Marinos, George Ogilvie and Carl Schultz. The scriptwriters for the mini-series were Robert Caswell, Lex Marinos, Denny Lawrence and Terry Hayes. The music for the mini-series was written by Chris Neal and Phillip Scott. Photography was by Dean Semler and Andrew Lesnie.
The seven-part mini-series was a ratings success, and was shown over a four-week period.
However, it was regarded by those still alive who took part in the 1932-33 series, or remembered it, as a ludicrous travesty of the real events.
The title refers to the bodyline cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team during their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia.
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The events leading up to the England Cricket Team's 1932-1933 Ashes tour of Australia and the tactics, of bowling directly at the batsman, used by the English cricket team to counteract the batting prowess of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman during the Ashes series.