7 /10 1 Votes7
5.5/10 TV Original language(s) English Budget $2.6 million First episode date 6 March 1983 | 8.5/10 IMDb Country of origin Australia Production company(s) Kennedy Miller Original network Network Ten Network Network Ten Genres Miniseries, Drama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starring Max PhippsJohn StantonJohn Meillon Awards Logie Award for Best Supporting Actor Cast Similar The Cowra Breakout, Bodyline, The Last Bastion, The Dirtwater Dynasty, Vietnam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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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.