"Changi" (2001) TV mini-series

Writer:

John Doyle (writer)

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

14 October 2001 (Australia)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

Changi follows the story of six young Australian mates who go to war. They land in Singapore in 1942...

Plot Keywords:

Singapore | Asia | TV Mini-Series | Australia | Prisoner Of War

Awards:

3 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Stephen Curry	...	Eddie (6 episodes, 2001)
Leon Ford	...	Bill Dwyer (6 episodes, 2001)
Matthew Newton	...	David Collins (6 episodes, 2001)
Mark Priestley	...	John 'Curley' Foster (6 episodes, 2001)
Joel McIlroy	...	Bertie Jenkins (6 episodes, 2001)
Shingo Misawa	...	Colonel Nakamura (6 episodes, 2001)
Alan Morris	...	James / ... (6 episodes, 2001)
Sean Taylor	...	Colonel Smythe (6 episodes, 2001)
Gotaro Tsunashima	...	Lieutenant Aso (6 episodes, 2001)
William Upjohn	...	CSM Bryson (6 episodes, 2001)
Anthony Hayes	...	Gordon Yates (5 episodes, 2001)
Dean Atkinson	...	Bernie / ... (5 episodes, 2001)
Nicholas Hope	...	Guillaume Koper (5 episodes, 2001)
Christopher Baker	...	Lofty Morgan / ... (4 episodes, 2001)
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell	...	Older David Collins (3 episodes, 2001)
Masa Yamaguchi	...	Guard (3 episodes, 2001)
Scott Youll	...	Guard (3 episodes, 2001)
Ian Bolt	...	Father Paul (2 episodes, 2001)
Peter Carroll	...	Doctor Hurrell / ... (2 episodes, 2001)
Ichiro Harada	...	Guard (2 episodes, 2001)
Andrew James Mead	...	Captain Lovegrove (2 episodes, 2001)
Ishihara Tatsumi	...	Captain Shindo (2 episodes, 2001)

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Trivia:

A total of 53 sets and locations had to be made and dressed including the prison barracks and a Malayan jungle. Just finding a site big enough to hold the main set of three 8 meter high buildings, which could pass for Singapore was laborious.

Quotes:

Lieutenant Aso: Japan has won the war. Japan has won!

Very good, very honest

My family and I enjoy this show and find it a fair thumb nail sketch of what the people went through.

My own father spent some time in Changi before going onto the Thailand-Burma Railway in "F" Force. Much as been said about the treatment the POW's received, I will just say that my father was 6 foot 1 inch and 196 lbs when Singapore fell, at the end of the war he was 5 foot 11 inches tall and 91 lbs.

No show could truly convey what the POW's went through, but this comes closer than most.

As the Ex POW's say, "If you didn't have mates you didn't survive." This show succeeds in getting this message across.