Talk:Against the Wind (miniseries)

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Anyone know how to find out the syndication history? I was living in Chi. in 1980-1981 and watched the entire series on Channel 32, WFLD-TV. I suppose it's run in other markets as well... Ellsworth 20:17, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed 'needs infobox' because the infobox has now been added to the page. Figaro (talk) 08:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural impact[edit]

I remember the miniseries - it had a wide viewership in the Nordic countries too - and last week I picked up Robert Hughes' acclaimed book, The Fatal Shore (1986) at a thrift shop, an in-depth look at the penal colony era of early Australia and the lifelong exile system. Hughes explains in the preface that he spent a decade researching and writing the book and that he felt compelled to do it because this element in Australian history had mostly been pushed aside or swept under the rug even into the 1960s/70s, and it needed to be addressed.

He doesn't mention the TV series in his book, of course, but arriving in 1978 I figure it must have had a substantial impact both in Australia and abroad in making this brutal period more widely known and appreciated. The article here notes that it ushered in an age of major Aussie tv miniseries, but doesn't bring out how it changed people's view of colonial Australian history. There had been nothing like it on Australian TV before, certainly not on this scale and scope, and it seems likely that it had the same kind of "spotlight impact" as the Holocaust miniseries had to popular awareness of the Nazi persecutions, around the same time. This kind of influence should be looked into and addressed in the article.188.150.64.57 (talk) 15:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]