Whiplash (TV series)

Whiplash
Created by	Michael Noonan
Starring	Peter Graves Delia Williams Chips Rafferty Jennifer Jane Anthony Wickert Ken Goodlet Walter Pym Robert Tudawali
Country of origin	Australia
No. of episodes	34
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Original release
Network	Seven Network
Release	18 February, 1961  – 14 October, 1961

Whiplash is an Australian television series made by the Seven Network and Associated Television. Filmed in 1960-61, the series was first broadcast 1961 and had opening titles featuring the Australian locale and terrain, and a dozen wild kangaroos.

Set in the 1860s, the series is a western filmed in Australia, and stars Peter Graves as "Christopher Cobb". The series is loosely based on the life of Freeman Cobb, who was the genuine founder of Australia's first stagecoach line Cobb and Co. Peter Graves, in his character of Christopher Cobb, used a bullwhip rather than a pistol to settle disputes.

The series stands out from other television western series of its era in that the guest casts are comprised of actors available in Australia, so none of the character actors so ubiquitous in American westerns, aside from Graves himself, appear at all.

The producers for the series were Ben Fox and Maury Geraghty, the directors were Peter Maxwell, John Meredith Lucas and Maury Geraghty, and the writers were Michael Noonan and Michael Plant.

References

• "The Australian Film and Television Companion" — compiled by Tony Harrison — Simon & Schuster Australia, 1994

External links

• Whiplash at IMDb

• TV Eye - Classic Australian Television
• Whiplash at the National Film and Sound Archive