| All at Sea | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Igor Auzins |
| Written by | Hugh Stuckey Howard Leeds |
| Produced by | Howard Leeds |
| Starring | Johnny Pace Harriet Pace Mike Preston Joe Martin Noel Ferrier Barry Creyton Abigail Stuart Wagstaff Joy Chambers Ugly Dave Gray |
| Cinematography | Paul Onorato |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Network Ten |
Release date | 1977 |
Running time | 75 mins |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
All at Sea is a 1977 Australian TV movie about a group of misfits on holiday on an island resort. It used the cast from The Celebrity Game.[1]
The film was a rare comedy from the Grundy Organisation. Reg Grundy claimed he was the one who had the idea of making an Australian TV movie in the vein of the Carry On films featuring the most popular comics in the country. He pitched the idea to Ian Holmes at Channel Ten who agreed to finance it. Grundy's wife Joy was then a panelist on The Celebrity Game on Channel Ten, and she also appeared in the cast.[2] Grundy assigned producing duties to Howard Lees who had recently joined Grundys from Hollywood.
"So here I had an Ameican productig a show that was based entirely on English comedy with mostly Australian actors," Grundy later wrote. "It was a mishmash."[3]
Grunday says the movie "got a twenty-one rating which these days would be a hit but back then was just okay. Howard [Leeds] had struck out."[3] No TV station wanted to pick it up and turn it into a series.[4]