'OPERATION BUFFALO'
NEW 1950S SET TV SERIES
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| Operation Buffalo starts tonight on ABC |
If you don't know what to watch tonight and you happen to live Down Under, new period set series
OPERATION BUFFALO starts tonight, Sunday, May 31st at Australian ABC.
Ewen Leslie, who is quickly becoming one of their busiest actors, leads the cast of the six part captivating drama, set in Maralinga, South Australia, at the height of the Cold War. At a remote army base carrying out British nuclear testing, paranoia runs rife and nuclear bombs are not the only things being tested, as loyalty, love, and betrayal are
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| The 1950s set series will run weekly in six episodes till July |
pitted against each other. The series is done as a satire on that event.
Jessica De Gouw, James Cromwell, Benedict Wall and our dearest
Angus McLaren also star.
Most Of The Bad Things In The Series Really Did Happen
From 1956, over a period of seven years, the Brits detonated seven
nuclear bombs in South Australia, one of them was double the power of
the Hiroshima bomb, which killed almost 150,000 directly and indirectly.
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| Ewen
Leslie is highly decorated military engineer Major Leo Carmichael
tasked with supervising construction of the British atomic test towers
at Maralinga, in the South Australian desert. |
Operation Buffalo is the fictionalisation of the first bomb test at
Maralinga and all the farcical political posturing and pressure
surrounding it. Major Leo Carmichael (
Ewen Leslie) is the
second-in-command at the Maralinga base, an engineer tasked to build the
towers from which the bombs are dropped.
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| James Cromwell is the unreliable commandant General ‘Cranky’ Crankford |
He’s a WWII war hero and
effectively runs the base with the Commandant, General Crankford (
James
Cromwell), too whimsical to really be in charge.
When Leo is told the first test has been moved up to accommodate the
British
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| Angus McLaren, in the background, also stars in the new series |
Ambassador’s schedule, he faces challenges on multiple fronts
with a missing prostitute, publicity-mad politicians, the arrival of a
new meteorologist (
Jessica De Gouw) and an Indigenous family who
government policy says officially doesn’t exist.
where amidst this backdrop of major
societal shifts, the women embracing more freedom and independence are
forced to confront personal choices and challenges which cast shadows
over their once cherished dreams.
where amidst this backdrop of major
societal shifts, the women embracing more freedom and independence are
forced to confront personal choices and challenges which cast shadows
over their once cherished dreams.
