Golden Pennies

Golden Pennies is an Australian-British television series which screened in 1985 on ABC and ITV.^[1] The series starred Carol Drinkwater and Bryan Marshall. The ten-part series centres on the Greenwood family as they seek to make their fortune in the Victorian goldfield town of Jericho in the 1850s.^[2]

It was executively produced by Christopher Muir, written by Graeme Farmer and directed by Oscar Whitbread.^[3]

Cast

Carol Drinkwater as Rebecca Greenwood
Bryan Marshall as Luke Greenwood
Gerard Kennedy as Uriah Lovejoy^[2]
Jason Donovan as Sean^[2]
Frank Wilson as Doc Slope^[2]

References

^ "ABC-3". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 14 June 1985. p. 10. Retrieved 12 February 2020 – via Trove.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cooney, Jenny (29 June 1985). "Jason waits in the wings". TV Week. p. 85.
^ Golden Pennies (TV Series 1985– ) - IMDb, retrieved 29 April 2021

External links

Golden Pennies at IMDb
Golden Pennies at Australian Television

TV productions of Oscar Whitbread

TV plays

On Approval (1964)
Corruption in the Palace of Justice (1964)
The Winds of Green Monday (1965)
Otherwise Engaged (1965)
Duet on Wednesday (1965)
Photo Finish (1965)
Plain Jane (1966)
A Phoenix Too Frequent (1966)
The Decision (1966)
Course for Collision (1967)
Slow Poison (1967)
Romeo and Juliet (1967)
Salome (1968)
The Shifting Heart (1968)
The Torrents (1969)
I'm Damned if I Know (1972)
The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1972)
The Professional Touch (1976)
Trial of Ned Kelly (1977)
Burn the Butterflies (1979)
A Wild Ass of a Man (1980)
The Balanced Particle Freeway (1997)

TV series

Australian Plays (1969)
Delta (Australian TV series) (1969)
Dynasty (1969)
Bellbird (1970–77)
A Family at War (1970)
Frank and Francesca (1973)
And the Big Men Fly (1974)
Rush (1975)
Catspaw (1978)
The Truckies (1978)
I Can Jump Puddles (1980)
Locusts and Wild Honey (1980)
The Flying Doctors (1986)
Studio 86 (1986)
Acropolis Now (1989)
The Power, The Passion (1989)
Cluedo (1990–92)
Bush Patrol (1996)

Miniseries

Marion (1974)
Power Without Glory (1976)
Lucinda Brayford (1980)
All the Green Year (1981)
Outbreak of Love (1981)
The Young Wife (1984)
Golden Pennies (1985)
The Flying Doctors (1985)
Ratbag Hero (1991)

v t e TV productions of Christopher Muir
TV plays	The Proposal (1957) Dark Brown (1957) Killer in Close-Up (1957) The Duke in Darkness (1957) Last Call (1958) Outpost (1959) Black Chiffon (1959) Antony and Cleopatra (1959) Till Death Do Us Part (1959) Dinner with the Family (1959) The Astronauts (1960) Uncle Martino (1960) Eye of the Night (1960) It's the Geography That Counts (1960) Waters of the Moon (1961) The First Joanna (1961) The Rivals (1961) Quiet Night (1961) Marriage Lines (1962) Martine (1961) Boy Round the Corner (1962) Fury in Petticoats (1962) The Teeth of the Wind (1962) She'll Be Right (1962) Man of Destiny (1963) A Piece of Ribbon (1963) The White Carnation (1963) The Physicists (1964) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1964) Luther (1964) Nude with Violin (1964) Everyman (1964) The Tower (1965) Boy with Banner (1966) (not screened) Topaze (1966) A Ride on the Big Dipper (1967) Shadow on the Wall (1968) The Party (1969)
Operas	Amahl and the Night Visitors (1957) Fidelo (1958) Albert Herring (1959) The Bartered Bride (1960) The Secret of Susannah (1961) Il Tabarro (1961) The Ambitious Servant Girl (1962) The Prodigal Son (1962) The Consul (1962) Bastien and Bastienne (1963) Simone Boccanegra (1963) Peter Grimes (1964) The Bloodless Sand (1964) Martha (1964) Carmen (1965)
Ballets	Giselle (1959) Ballet Studio (1959) The Nutcracker (1960) Coppelia (1960) The Bloodless Sand (1961) Sylvia (1961) Caranval (1961) The Spider's Banquet (1963) One in Five (1963) Robert Pomie Ballet (1963) Hans Christian Anderson (1963) The New Horizon (1964) The Fir Tree (1964) Seven Deadly Sins (1965) She (1967)
Feature film	Libido (1973)
TV series	Lucky Colour Blue (1975) (TV series) Andra (1976) (TV series) Golden Pennies (1985) (TV mini series) Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1988)