A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. It stars Helen Morse in the lead role of Jean Paget, with Bryan Brown as Joe Harman and Scottish actor Gordon Jackson as the aging lawyer and trustee Noel Strachan. The series won an International
The History of a Town "A Little Organ") appeared in the No.1 issue of "Otechestvennye Zapiski". A pause followed and lasted till the end of the year: the author wrote and published several satirical fairytales ("The Tale of How One Peasant Fed Two Generals", "The Lost Consciousness", "A Rabid Landlord" and others), started the new series called "Tashkenters" (Gospoda Tashkentsy) and finished "Sign of the Times" and "Letters About a Province" cycles. The rest of the novel was published in issues No.1-4, 9, 1870, of "Otechestvennye Zapiski". In 1870 the novel came as a separate edition under the title The History of a Town, subtitled: