Genre Action Original language(s) Mandarin Chinese First episode date 25 July 1982 | Country of origin Singapore Running time 90 Minutes | |
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Starring Huang WenyongChen TiansongQian ZhigangChen Meng Original network SBC 8th Frequency (Now MediaCorp Channel 8) Languages Mandarin Chinese, Standard Mandarin Similar Springs of Life, The Awakening, Flying Fish, The Golden Pillow, The Legendary Swordsman | ||
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Seletar Robbery (Simplified Chinese: 实里达大劫案, literally "The Great Seletar Robbery") is a 90-minute Singaporean action drama produced by Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (now MediaCorp) in 1982.
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Production
SBC began filming the drama on May 31, 1982, and filming lasted 24 days.
Plot
Three thugs, Zhao, Soon and Chai, rob an employee of the workers' payroll belonging to a construction company of S$300000 which was just withdrawn from bank. The construction company was located at Seletar Reservoir, hence the drama's name. The police is alerted by an electrician who had witnessed the robbery. The robbers are about to escape when the police arrive.
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Significance
Although it has only one episode, and there were earlier Chinese Language productions, Seletar Robbery is considered by MediaCorp to be the first locally produced Chinese Language television drama series, and Its first airing date- 25 July 1982 at 8 pm- is considered by SBC and its modern incarnation MediaCorp TV as the birth of local Mandarin Chinese drama production.
In 2007, MediaCorp marked its 25 years of Chinese television drama production by producing The Golden Path, which had a storyline commencing in 1982, the same year the Seletar Robbery was first aired. It showed clips of this series being watched by the characters of The Golden Path on television, along with some scenes borrowed from the original series.
The drama was re-run on MediaCorp Channel 8 on 11 December 2014 at 3:00am.