Hector's Bunyip

1986 Australian TV series or program

Hector's Bunyip
Written by	Judith Colquhoun
Directed by	Mark Callan
Starring	Robert Coleby Barbara Stephens Gordon Piper Tushka Bergen
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Helen Boyd
Running time	93 mins
Production company	JNP Films
Budget	$530,000^[1]
Original release
Release	1986 (1986)

Hector's Bunyip, is a 1986 Australian TV movie about a young boy who is abducted by a bunyip.^[1]

Synopsis

Six year old Hector in the youngest of three children in a poor foster family. His best friend is an imaginary creature he calls 'Bunyip'. One day a child welfare officer mistakenly deems the family home unsuitable for Hector, and makes arrangements for him to be placed in the care of an orphanage, but before the agency can follow through, Hector mysteriously 'disappears'. In reality, the family has hidden Hector, claiming he was taken by the 'Bunyip' - with the hope that in the meantime the counselor will change her mind.

Cast

Robert Coleby as George Bailey
Barbara Stephens as Irene Bailey
Gordon Piper as Jack Benson
Tushka Bergen as Pandora Bailey
Denise Roberts as Gladys Glum
Joan Sydney as Maude Trembalt
Joyce Jacobs as Ivy Clements
Todd Boyce as Constable Gilbert Goode
Syd Heylen as Chooka Morris
Brian Moll as Ernest Sister

Production

The film was shot in the lower Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia .^[2] It was aired on WonderWorks.

References

^ ^a ^b Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 79
^ "New Films That Don't Talk Down to Children", The Age, 9 December 1985 accessed 12 July 2013