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Golden Soak

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Golden Soak
Based onnovel by Hammond Innes
Written byPeter Yeldham
Directed byHenri Safran
StarringRay Barrett
Elizabeth Alexander
Bill Hunter
Country of originAustralia
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6 x 1 hour
Original release
NetworkABC
BBC 1
Release13 March 1979 (1979-03-13)

Golden Soak is a 1979 Australian-British mini series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia. It was based on the 1973 book of the same title written by Hammond Innes.[1]

In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast under the title De Verlaten Mijn ("The abandoned mine"). Its theme music, The Lonely Shepherd by the James Last Orchestra and soloist Georghe Zamfir, reached the top 5 in the Dutch Top 40 in 1979.

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References

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p200
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