Game of Life (also The Game of Life) is an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986.For youth and for yawns, p. 30, Canberra Times, 30 June 1986, url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118128888 The format was that 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.Satirical Look at How to Play the Game of Life, p. 23, The Age, 3 April 1986 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 SBSTelevision listings Canberra Times Monday 31 March 1986, Monday 30 June 1987, Monday 14 October 1987 and Monday 15 February 1988
Episodes
Just Good Friends (3 April 1986) A Way to Play Peacefully (10 April 1986) I Feel Like I'm Thirty (17 April 1986) Education Doesn't Mean Nothin' To Me (24 April 1986) I Need a Job (1 May 1986) Hey Mum I'm on TV (8 May 1986) Youth Rules OK (15 May 1986) 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 '85p. 58, Cinema Papers, March 1986
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