High Country

He's worth five of any stockmen I've ever come across.

– Sam Barnett (Derek Hardwick) overrules his manager about employing roving musterer Jocko ( Bruce Allpress)

About time you were out there too. I want those cows out the river paddock.

– Station manager Jack White (Jeffrey Thomas) lords it over Jocko (Bruce Allpress)

He's suspiciously polite these days — what does he want?

– Carol (Kathryn Rawlings) worries that James (Peter McCauley) has ulterior motives

Ways and means. Find a way of getting him the sack. Hits the grog, doesn't he?

– Corrupt stock agent Clive (Grant Tilly) talks with Jack White (Jeffrey Thomas) on dispensing with honest Jocko (Bruce Allpress)

Nothing's any of your business, Jocko. Nothing.

– Jack White (Jeffrey Thomas) issues a veiled threat to Jocko (Bruce Allpress)

 I was forgetting I'm not one of your rich squatters, not one of your clan members am I? No silver spoon...

– Jack White (Jeffrey Thomas) is rebuffed by Carol (Kathryn Rawliings)

Bloody dogs reckon it's Sunday.

– Jocko (Bruce Allpress) comments on a slow muster

Take it or leave it. What do you want? Favours?

– Sam Barnett (Derek Hardwick) makes his offer to James Cameron (Peter McCauley) clear

You bloody sold me out, Barnett! I sweated blood for you. No college, no university, no bloody silver spoon.

– Jack White (Jeffrey Thomas) rails against his old boss

...the Jocko character revived a well established bush man stereotype, its overt Australian connections making a convincing bid for overseas sales. Jocko was laconic, resourceful, disrespectful of authority and rarely solvent. He was also a confirmed itinerant, revelling in a the freedom of a ready supply of seasonal droving, shearing or labouring and stifled by the thought of position or permanence in any town or city.

– Writer Trisha Dunleavy on the character of Jocko, who inspired two seasons of TV series Jocko, in her 2005 book Ourselves in Primetime, page 133

The Innes Family at Haldon Station accommodated and fed the company of 30 for the three weeks outside filming in May last year, and provided vehicles, cattle and other stock. Inside scenes were done on specially built sets at Avalon.

– Writer Judith McArthur in Straight Furrow, 9 May 1980, page 16

There was a lot of hoo-ha about the budget, as The Governor was still fresh in eevryone's mind. At first they wanted to film it in the Wairarapa to save money, but I said they at at least owed me the courtesy of coming to see where I had imagined it.

– Director/producer Mark DeFriest on scoping locations for four days in the Mackenzie Country, before getting approval to film at Haldon Station, Straight Furrow, 9 May 1980, page 16

We did copy the cookhouse fairly closely, painting in the same dull green, and wen've now sent them down a new cookhouse teapot, as we couldn't find another one quite as well battered as theirs.

– Director/producer Mark DeFriest on how High Country's homestead sets are similiar to Haldon Station, their main location, Straight Furrow, 9 May 1980, page 16