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Bodyline is an Australian 1984 television miniseries which dramatised the events of the 1932–1933 English Ashes cricket tour of Australia.

When originally shown on Channel 10 Australia in July 1984 over 4 consecutive nights - including extensive ad-breaks - the run-time was approx.

IMDb and Amazon give the total run-time of the official extensively cut, re-edited and picture-cropped - from the original 4:3 picture ratio to a 16:9 picture ratio - widescreen presentation DVD version as 330 minutes – 5 hours 30 minutes – 7 episodes of approx.

This version was repeated on BBC1 on Friday and Saturday late nights in November 1986, and again on BBC2 on Tuesday lunchtimes over July and August 1991[11] before transmission rights reverted to Australian TV Network 10 and Kennedy-Miller for DVD production.