Game of Life (also The Game of Life) was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986.[1] The format was a compere (Mic Conway) would teleport seven youths to a disco in the opening credits, one of whom would be chosen as that episode's reporter.[2] Topic included leaving high school, sex and drugs. Mic Conway said, "It got a big response mainly from people who didn't like that it tackled "youth" issues like drugs, sex etc; just as families were settling down to dinner and the ABC news, so it was not taken up again." The eight episodes screened from Thursday 3 April 1986 on ABC, and were repeated twice on both ABC and SBS[3]

Episodes

  1. Just Good Friends (3 April 1986)
  2. A Way to Play Peacefully (10 April 1986)
  3. I Feel Like I'm Thirty (17 April 1986)
  4. Education Doesn't Mean Nothin' To Me (24 April 1986)
  5. I Need a Job (1 May 1986)
  6. Hey Mum I'm on TV (8 May 1986)
  7. Youth Rules OK (15 May 1986)
  8. We Live for Love (22 May 1986)

Credits

Reporters:
Mark Wooder
Simon Peart
Brett Thomson
Angela Martinkus
Lisbeth Kennelly
Lisa Hensley
Simon Njoo

Compere: Mic Conway
Miss Heroine: Denny Gordon
Soap box orator: Ian Nimmo
School teacher: Peter Carmody

Directors: Michael Pattinson, Louise Meek, Hugh Piper, James Bradley
Producer: Jim George
Production research coordinator: Kris Wyld
Production research coordinator: Judy Menczel

Production companies: Communique Pty Ltd, Ultrafun Pty Ltd
Distribution company: Communique Pty Ltd
Working title: Youth in Australia '85[4]

References

  1. ↑ p. 30, Canberra Times, 30 June 1986
  2. ↑ Satirical Look at How to Play the Game of Life, p. 23, The Age, 3 April 1986
  3. ↑ Television listings Canberra Times Monday 31 March 1986, Monday 30 June 1987, Monday 14 October 1987 and Monday 15 February 1988
  4. ↑ p. 58, Cinema Papers, March 1986
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