So people at Crawfords were clearly having a laugh with the Foxes. This is Henry Fox, another Fox character on three out of four successive episodes of Homicide (all from late 1968). He's played by Luigi Villani. This episode is set in Dandenong, which is not really a rural area. Bizarrely he claims his girlfriend's name is Betty Fox, and that they started going out together because their names were both Fox, and that when they got married they'd both be Foxes and their children would be... (he then trails off) but the whole thing makes no sense obviously because if he married her the family's name would all be Fox anyway so... huh?
Jeff (here credited as Jeffrey) Kevin as Michael Bolton, a conscientious objector, being followed by some bodgies (who beat him up). Five years later Kevin was playing Arnold Feather in Number 96. He told the Sydney Morning Herald in early 1973 that: ‘In the Crawford productions I was usually type-cast. I always seemed to be the misunderstood youth who looked as though he did it… but did not.’*
This episode was written by John Dingwall, who would go on to write the incredible 1975 film Sunday Too Far Away.
*‘Who’s that behind that sharp, hurtful Arnold?’ SMH 19 February 1973 p. 14
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