All the Green Year

All the Green Year is a 1980 Australian television series based on a novel about three boys growing up near Melbourne on the eve of the Great Depression.

It is based on the book of the same name by Don Charlwood, first published in 1965. The book sold over 100,000 copies and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic.

Cast

 * Greg Stroud as Johnno
 * Darius Perkins as Charlie Reeves
 * Jamie Adamson
 * Sally Cooper
 * Carl Hansen
 * Monica Maughan as Mrs Reeves
 * Alan Hopgood as Mr Reeves
 * Alwyn Kurts as Older Charlie Reeves
 * Larry Held
 * Tracey Kelly as Eileen
 * Pepe Trevor as Kitty

Production
The novel was published in 1965 and was acclaimed. It was set as a text for high school students studying English Literature in the 1960s.

In 1977 it was announced the ABC would make a TV series based on the book. Filming did not take place until mid 1980.

Although most of the series was set in Frankston, it was shot in Flinders.