Game of Life (TV programme)

Game of Life (also The Game of Life) was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986. The format was 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. 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 (3 April 1986)
2. A Way to Play Peacefully (10 April 1986)
3. I Feel Like I'm Thirty (17 April 1986)
4. Education Doesn't Mean Nothin' To Me (24 April 1986)
5. I Need a Job (1 May 1986)
6. Hey Mum I'm on TV (8 May 1986)
7. Youth Rules OK (15 May 1986)
8. We Live for Love (22 May 1986)

Credits

Reporters:<br> Mark Wooder <br> Simon Peart <br> Brett Thomson <br> Angela Martinkus <br> Lisbeth Kennelly <br> Lisa Hensley <br> Simon Njoo

Compere: Mic Conway <br> Miss Heroine: Denny Gordon <br> Soap box orator: Ian Nimmo <br> School teacher: Peter Carmody

Directors: Michael Pattinson, Louise Meek, Hugh Piper, James Bradley <br> Producer: Jim George <br> Production research coordinator: Kris Wyld <br> Production research coordinator: Judy Menczel

Production companies: Communique Pty Ltd, Ultrafun Pty Ltd <br> Distribution company: Communique Pty Ltd <br> Working title: Youth in Australia '85

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