The Castaways (TV series)
The Castaways is an Australian television drama adventure series which first screened on the ABC in 1974. Synopsis. "The Castaways" follow the story of passengers on the ship the Mary Jane in 1840 who end up shipwrecked on an island. The survivors are a German family, an English girl, a pair of convicts, a man from the army and a young boy. The German family Jan Lindburg, wife Eve and daughter Angie were looking to start a new life in the colonies. The English girl Cathy Dunbar who was to take up a teaching post in  Port Jackson. Sergeant Holt was in charge of the convicts Irving and Billy Rose. David is a young boy whose parents died in the shipwreck. Production. The series was a co-production between the ABC, Scottish Television and Germany's Bayerischer Rundfunk. The filming was done over 16 weeks, mostly around Port Macquarie in New South Wales.