This title, dated 1986, was included in the 1988-89 VHS Video Cassette Catalogue of the South Australian State Film and Video Library of South Australia. Of this 17 minute videotape, it read: "Presented on half-inch VHS video cassette. The 1952 film
The Back of Beyond (1954) made the Birdsville Mail and its driver
Tom Kruse, legends. In 1986, as part of the South Australian Sesqui-centenary celebrations, the trip was re-enacted using two reconditioned Blitz trucks. As part of the trip two of the original trucks, discarded 25 years before, were rescued for restoration".