Game of Life (TV programme)


Game of Life was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986.
The format was a compere would teleport seven youths to a disco in the opening credits, one of whom would be chosen as that episode's reporter.
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

Episodes

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

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