"Storm River" - Graves winds up at a deserted homestead where a hot woman (Anette Andre) dreams of escaping to the city to be a designer but is kidnapped basically by oppressive Grant Taylor and Taylor's dimwit son. Solid acting - Andre is gorgeous and went on to have a decent career in London. I like how Taylor was a frustrated writer. There's scenes in the swamps with canoes which is different. Graves reveals he went to Harvard!
"Flood Tide" - Graves gets holed up over night in a spooky mansion with a woman (Shirley Broadway). A man turns up, Barry Linehan... and he, or her, or both, might be insane. This was a terrific ep. Different but creepy. Less characters = more time for characterisations.
"Dilemma in Wool" - Graves and his bland offsider transport a Spanish couple. I liked the Spanish connection - Nigel Lovell is another one - but there's too much accent acting. It's a dull episode - I didn''t care, there's little action. I did like the reference to the merino industry.
"Dark Runs the Sea" - Annette Andre is back as a woman who gets kidnapped by a bushranger... only it seems there may be more to it. Guy Doleman is also back as the bushranger as is heavy set Joe McCormick as Andre's uncle. I like the cockatoo on the guys's head. Andre is flirty and a bit of a femme fetale - there was a misogynist strand through alot of these shows, as was typical of the time - but she isn't all bad. She's fun - I wish Graves had been more in to her. There's an excellent fist fight at the end between Graves and Doleman on location at a waterfall.
"Magic Wire" - the one about the laying of the telegraph, a popular trope in Westerns. Robert Tudawali offers star power - it is a little disconcerting to see him continually popping up as different characters. Decent ep with whites mistreating blacks and then blaming them - all too believable.
"The Haunted Valley" - Bettina Welch is back in a different role. Ron Whelan from old Cinesound movies pops up. This is a more creepy noir-ish episode with Welch as a sort of femme fetale. Not bad.
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