Mal and Mike Leyland were pioneers of outback documentary-making, first setting off to Central Australia in 1960. Mal was just 15 and Mike 19.
Their television shows in the 1970s and ’80s were so popular that their theme song, “Ask The Leyland Brothers”, remains familiar to millions of viewers today.
But when Mal and Mike decided to branch out into the tourist industry by building their own theme park, Leyland Brothers World, disaster struck and both were bankrupted.
The brothers fell out and went their separate ways.
Sometime before Mike Leyland’s death in 2009, they reconciled but Mal Leyland continues to have regrets.
Sourcing rich archival footage, this program tells the inside story of the Leyland’s rise and fall, and of their final days together.
