A Town Like Alice was the absolute BEST thing ever on TV!
It introduced me to Nevil Shute and all of his novels.
Trustee from the Toolroom is as good as 'Alice" but was never made into a movie.
I would agree, though I would bet not fifty freepers even saw the mini-series when it aired. Made me want to visit Alice Springs! Shute had to have based that novel on folks from that town so the population has to be my kind of people.