Winners & Losers: A Great Day

Television (Full Length) – 1976

Our first day is drowned in bucketing rain. So are our second, third and fourth. By the end of the first week, we have shot about five minutes, including all our interiors. From now on we have to have good weather, because we've got nowhere else to go.
– Ian Mune recalls directing A Great Day, in his 2010 book Mune - An Autobiography

When things do start going my way again it's gonna be a great day Ken, a great day.
– Fred (William Smith) looks toward the day his fortunes turn

Nothing, not a single solitary sound. Apart from us you'd think the whole world is dead. Wouldn't you like to stay out here forever?
– Fred (William Smith), contemplating the silence as he fishes

I’m afraid my view is that a good story can only be a good story, it can’t be two things at once, so to speak. Also that TV is here today and gone tomorrow while the printed word, if the good printed word, lasts for ever (if history can be believed).
– Author Frank Sargeson in 1977 Department of Education booklet A Great Day - Shooting Script

The tide swarms in and out, the waves come up, everyone is standing around waist-deep, the gear gets wet, tempers fray.
– Ian Mune recalls directing A Great Day, in his 2010 book Mune - An Autobiography