'The Alien Years' (1988), an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television mini-series, followed ''hard on the screening of SBS's 'Always Afternoon' [1988],'' according to 'Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series' (1993) by Albert Moran. Both ''dealt in part with the imprisonment of Germans in Australia during World War I''. Both were 1988 releases on Australian television and both debuted their first episodes only about six weeks apart.