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Howzat! Kerry Packer's War

Lachy Hulme

Abe Forsythe

Damon Gameau

Brendan Cowell

Clayton Watson

Matthew Le Nevez

Richard Davies

Hamish Michael

Nicholas Cooper

Alexander England

Tony Briggs

Ryan O'Kane

Daina Reid

John Edwards

Mimi Butler

Christopher Lee

Howzat! Kerry Packer's War: Episode 1

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Episode 1

BBC Four - Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, Episode 1

Drama about Australian media mogul Kerry Packer's war with the established cricket world.

Drama centred around Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who fought a cricket war by secretly signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament.

Two-part fact-based drama centred around Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who fought a cricket war by signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament. 

In 1976, infuriated that ABC had been given the TV broadcasting rights by the Australian Cricket Board without his own Channel 9 being given the chance to bid, Packer is delighted when John Cornell, one of his producers, comes to him with a rough idea about setting up a rival tournament. Amongst great secrecy, Packer and Cornell start signing up some of the best players in Australia, but soon find themselves at war with the established game.

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Drama about media mogul Kerry Packer's fight to revolutionise cricket in the 1970s.

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