Poster of A Fortunate Life

A Fortunate Life

Plot: At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli
First Episode Aired On:
Sunday, April 27 1986
38 years ago
Last Episode Aired On:
Wednesday, April 30 1986
38 years ago
Number of seasons: 1 (4 episodes)