The Dismissal (1983)
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Cast & Crew.
John Stanton
Malcolm Fraser
Max Phipps
Gough Whitlam
John Meillon
Sir John Kerr
Bill Hunter
Rex Connor
Peter Sumner
Bill Hayden
Robyn Nevin
Lady Kerr
Ed Devereaux
Phillip Lynch
Tom Oliver
Reg Withers
Stuart Littlemore
TV Anchorman
Ruth Cracknell
Margaret Whitlam
Robin Bowering
Jim Killen
David Downer
Tony Staley
Sean Scully
Doug Anthony
John Hargreaves
Dr. Jim Cairns
Harry Weiss
Tirath Khemlani
George Ogilvie
Senator Jim McClelland
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The Dismissal is an Australian television miniseries, first screened in 1983, that dramatised the events of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
It was partly written and directed by the noted film makers George Miller and Phillip Noyce as well as Mad Max screenwriter Terry Hayes, with cinematography by Dean Semler.
The miniseries comprised six one-hour episodes. It was originally broadcast by Network Ten, beginning on 6 March 1983 (the day after the 1983 federal election), and was also broadcast in the United Kingdom.
It was voted the 19th-best Australian television show on the 50 Years 50 Shows list.
In the 1970s there were several attempts to make a film based on the same story called King Hit written by Erwin Rado and Bruce Grant. Phillip Noyce and Paul Cox were both attached as directors for a time.