A Town Like Alice (miniseries) Emmy Award for drama in 1981 and won a Logie Award in the "Best Single Drama or Mini Series" category at the 1982 awards with Morse, Brown and Jackson winning Logies for their performances. 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
The Town (Richter novel) The Town (Richter novel) The Town (1950) is a novel written by American author Conrad Richter. It is the third installment of his trilogy The Awakening Land. "The Trees" (1940) and "The Fields" (1946) were the earlier portions of the series. "The Town" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the edition notice of this all-in-one version—which lists the original publication dates of the three books -- "The Town" was first published on 24 April 1950.