All the Green Year is a six-part Australian television series based on a novel about three boys growing up near Melbourne on the eve of the Great Depression,[1] that aired on the ABC in 1980.
The book sold over 100,000 copies and has come to be regarded as an Australian classic.
[4] 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.
[6] Although most of the series was set in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, it was shot in Flinders.