Game of Life (also The Game of Life) was an educational programme for teenagers, commissioned by the ABC and SBS in 1986. The format was a compere (Mic Conway) would teleport seven youths to a disco in the opening credits, one of whom would be chosen as that episode's reporter. Topic included leaving high school, sex and drugs. Mic Conway said, "It got a big response mainly from people who didn't like that it tackled "youth" issues like drugs, sex etc; just as families were settling down to dinner and the ABC news, so it was not taken up again." The eight episodes screened from Thursday 3 April 1986 on ABC, and were repeated twice on both ABC and SBS
Episodes
Just Good Friends (3 April 1986) A Way to Play Peacefully (10 April 1986) I Feel Like I'm Thirty (17 April 1986) Education Doesn't Mean Nothin' To Me (24 April 1986) I Need a Job (1 May 1986) Hey Mum I'm on TV (8 May 1986) Youth Rules OK (15 May 1986) We Live for Love (22 May 1986)
Credits
Reporters: Mark Wooder Simon Peart Brett Thomson Angela Martinkus Lisbeth Kennelly Lisa Hensley Simon Njoo