Winners & Losers: After the Depression

Bill Morrison is a man on a mission. His wife and child can't walk nearly as fast. As the trio head toward the mining settlement where a new job awaits, Bill is about to react in different ways to two very different surprises — one from his wife, and one at the mine. This half-hour drama from the Winners & Losers series is based on a Maurice Shadbolt story, which later fed into Shadbolt's decade-in-the-making novel Strangers and Journeys. Singer turned advertising veteran Clyde Scott plays Bill. Actor and public speaking expert Jane Thomas John plays the nameless, long-suffering wife. 

[After the Depression] brought Winners and Losers to so fine a conclusion ... The cast made the most of their opportunities — especially the remarkable little four-year-old boy. I am hoping that we will have another chance to see this memorable sequence of New Zealand productions.

– Shirley Maddock in a Listener review of Winners and Losers, 5 June 1976

Key Cast & Crew

Maurice Shadbolt

Original Author

Clyde Scott

As: Bill Morrison

Jane Thomas John (née Dyver)

As: Wife

Roger Donaldson

Director, Producer

Ian Mune

Producer

Arthur Baysting

Writer