All at Sea (1977 film)

All at Sea
Directed by Igor Auzins
Produced by Howard Leeds
Written by Hugh Stuckey
Howard Leeds
Starring Johnny Pace
Harriet Pace
Mike Preston
Joe Martin
Noel Ferrier
Barry Creyton
Abigail
Stuart Wagstaff
Joy Chambers
Ugly Dave Gray
Cinematography Paul Onorato
Production
company
Grundy Organisation
Distributed by Network Ten
Release dates
 1977
Running time
 75 mins
Country Australia
Language English

All at Sea is a 1977 Australian television film about a group of misfits on holiday on an island resort. It used the cast from The Celebrity Game.[1]

Production

The film was a rare comedy from the Grundy Organisation. Reg Grundy claimed he was the one who had the idea of making an Australian TV movie in the vein of the Carry On films featuring the most popular comics in the country. He pitched the idea to Ian Holmes at Channel Ten who agreed to finance it. Grundy's wife Joy was then a panelist on The Celebrity Game on Channel Ten, and she also appeared in the cast.[2]

Grundy assigned producing duties to Howard Leeds who had recently joined Grundys from Hollywood. "So here I had an American producing a show that was based entirely on English comedy with mostly Australian actors", Grundy later wrote. "It was a mishmash."[3]

Reception

Grundy wrote in his 2010 memoirs that the movie "got a twenty-one rating which these days would be a hit but back then was just okay. Howard [Leeds] had struck out."[3] No TV station wanted to pick it up and turn it into a series.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p5
  2. ↑ "Joy's happy as a doctor in distress.". The Australian Women's Weekly (National Library of Australia). 30 September 1981. p. 133. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reg Grundy, Reg Grundy, Pier 9, 2010 p 183
  4. ↑ "Grundy boss: IT'S DRAMA '80.". The Australian Women's Weekly (National Library of Australia). 14 May 1980. p. 205 Supplement: TV Weekly. Retrieved 14 July 2013.

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