In a 2006 episode of the TV show The Office ("The Convict") the character of Andy Bernard talks of having started a Frisbee golf club in his college years and says "I live to frolf!"
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His chief works are The Convict's Appeal published in 1818, a protest against the death penalty and general severity of the criminal code, and Household Verses published 1845, which came to the notice of Sir R. Peel, through whom he obtained a pension of £100 a year.
February - John Bigge finished gathering evidence on all aspects of the colonial government, including finances, the church, the judiciary, and the convict system.
John Bigge's first report on all aspects of the colonial government, then under the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, including finances, the church and the judiciary, and the convict system, was published.
He is most notable for his role as Mickey Morrelli, the convict in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) starring Paul Reubens.
Home to a section of the convict built Great North Road, the area remained important as a hill crossing between Sydney and Newcastle until large scale earthworks permitted the development of more direct roads and highways.
The Home Secretary refused to release the convict after serving his minimum term, but gave no reason for the decision.
He appeared too in 1961 as Corporal Clay Taylor in an episode of NBC's Wagon Train, and as Phil Davies in "The Convict's Revenge" episode of ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp with Hugh O'Brian.
The churchyard provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations, in which the hero of the story, Pip, meets the convict, Magwitch.