Children’s television
Come Midnight Monday
The story
Come Midnight Monday is a 1982 Australian children's TV series. It consisted of seven 30 minute episodes first broadcast in 1982.
Plot summary
Four teenagers fight plans to close the Winnawadgery railway, scrap its veteran steam engine Wombat and build a highway in its place. Their campaign runs into opposition from a prominent local businessman. They enlist the help of retired engine driver Angus McPhee.
Production
The script was written by regular Bellbird writer Roger Dann, adapted from the children's novel by David Burke OAM. It was filmed mainly on location at Cockatoo in Victoria. The train sequences were filmed on the Puffing Billy Railway with NA class locomotive 12A portraying the Wombat.
Cast
Stephen Comey as Tim Forsyth
Tim Blake as Squeak Hoolihan
Sally Boyden as Beverley 'Biff' Hoolihan
Jacqui Gordon as Jenny 'Bugsy' Hoolihan
Tommy Dysart as Angus McPhee
Peter Cummins as Albert Spack
Cliff Ellen as Clifford
Peter Hosking as Frank Harrison
Crew
Producer: David Zweck
Director: Mark Callan
Scriptwriter: Roger Dunn
Sound recordist: John Beanland
Production Designer: Paul Cleveland, Alwyn Harbott
Music: Kevin Hocking