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ALL
SAINTS
7 Network
/ 119+x60m-e / 1998-continuig
Medical
drama series. Problems, both professional and personal, of the doctors
and nurses at Sydney hospital All Saints especially those working on
ward 17. The show has been filmed at various real Sydney hospitals
including Concord, The Rachel Forster Hospital and latterly Hornsby
Ku-Ring-Gai. This is mainly for exteriors though as the
interiors are filmed on a purpose built set at the 7 studios. All
Saints won the Logie for most popular program at the 2001 awards.
Robert Coleby and Conrad Coleby are father and son in real life. There
was an All Saints special edition of The Weakest Link broadcast on 4
February 2002 in which Erik Thomson emerged as the winner.
Georgie Parker won Gold Logies in both 2001 and 2002 thanks mainly to
her role in the show.
production
details
Executive
Producer: John Holmes / Medical Advisor: Therese Hanna / Producer: Di
Drew (August 2001-)
cast
GEORGIE PARKER as Terri Sullivan / JEREMY CUMPSTON as Nurse Connor
Costello (-2001) / MARTIN LYNES as Luke Forlano / JUDITH McGRATH as
Von Ryan / LIBBY TANNER as Bronwyn Craig / BEN TARI as Jared Levine /
ERIK THOMSON as Mitch Stevens / KIRRILY WHITE as Stephanie Markham /
BELINDA EMMETT as Jodi (2000-2001) / SONIA TODD as Kate Larsen /
CONRAD COLEBY as Scott Zinenko / JOY SMITHERS as Rose Carlton /
NATASHA BEAUMONT as Rebecca Green / ROD MULLINAR as prof Craig (-2000)
/ ROBERT COLEBY as Prof Craig (from 2001) / CONRAD COLEBY as Scott
Zinenko / PAUL TASSONE as Nelson Curtis (2001 - )
ALL
THE GREEN YEARS
ABC /
6x30m-e / 1980
Writer:
Cliff Green /Novel: Don Charlwood / Music: George Dreyfus / Camera:
Ian Warburton / Director: Douglas Sharp / Narrator: Alwyn Kurtis
Period
drama serial. In Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula in 1929 a trio
of teenage lads begin to grow up and learn a little about life.
With:-
GERG STROUD / DARIUS PERKINS / JAMIE ANDERSON / SALLY COOPER / CARL
HANSEN / MONICA MAUGHAN / ALAN HOPGOOD
ALL
THE RIVERS RUN
7
Network-Crawford / 4x120m-e / 1983 (First Episode: 4 October)
Period
drama serial. At the close the 19th century Philadelphia Gordon
Edwards shocks her family and friends when she becomes the captain of
a riverboat. Set around Australia's largest inland port of Echuca.
production
details
Writers:
Peter Yeldham, Colin Free, Vince Moran, Gwenda Marsh / Novel: Nancy
Cato / Camera: David Connell / Design: Tel Stolfo / Music: Bruce
Rowland / Costume: Clare Griffin / Producer: Alan Hardy / Executive
Producers: Ian Bradley, Hector Crawford
cast
SIGRID THORNTON as Philadelphia Gordon Edwards / JOHN WATERS as
Brenton Edwards / JOHN ALANSU as Ah Lee / KIRK ALEXANDER as Jim /
CHARLES TINGWELL as Uncle Charles / ALAN HARDY as Rev Poison / DON
BRIDGES as Useless / CHANTAL CONTOURI as Julia / DIANE CRAIG as Miss
Barrett / CELIA DE BURGH as Imogen / BETTY LUCAS as Janet Raeburn /
SYDNEY JACKSON as David Young / MARGO McLENNAN as Aunt Miriam
ALL
THE RIVERS RUN 2
7
Network-Crawford / 2x120m-e / 1990
Period
drama serial, a sequel to the above entry. It is now 1903 and the boat
trade of Echuca is no longer as vibrant as it was. Delie and Brenton,
now with three children, are finding it hard to make ends meet, later
Brenton following an accident, finds himself in trouble.
production
details
Writer:
Vincent Moran (part one), Barbara Bishop (part two) /
Characters: Nancy Cato / Design: Robert H. Perkins / Costume: Clare
Griffin, Marion Boyce / Camera: Dan Burstall / Producer: Alan Hardy /
Executive Producers: Ian Bradley, Hector Crawford / Director: John
Power
cast
JOHN WATERS as Brenton Edwards / NIKKI COGHILL as Philadelphia 'Delie'
Edwards /PARKER STEVENSON as Cyrus / JOHN JACOBS as Sid / JOHN ALANSU
as Ah Lee / MIKE BISHOP as Grainger / JOHN CONCANNON as Bates /
MICHELE FAWDEN as Ruth / CHARLES TINGWELL as Charles / GIL TUCKER as
Hopkins / SHANE McNAMARA as Riley / MARGARET PEERMAN as Miss Prentice
/ SUDI DE WINTER as Gordon / ERIC McKIBBIN as Brenny / PETA TOPPANO as
Eunice / DAVID CAMERON as Enright / ALAN FLETCHER as McLean
ALL
THE WAY
9
Network-Crawford / Mini Series: 3x120m-e Series: 26x60m-e / 1988 (Mini
series Broadcast 20 - 22 April / Series proper began: 21 November
1988)
Period
thriller serial. In 1963 journalist Alan Scott becomes caught up in a
conspiracy involving nuclear testing on Australian soil. A series
quickly followed the mini series and opened out to introduce more
soapy elements taking in the family lives of the journalists,
politicians etc involved in the mini series. The title came from a
1966 phrase uttered by Prime Minister Harold Holt about how far
Australia would become involved in the Vietnam War.
production
details
Creator:
Terry Stapleton / Producer: Brendon Lunney /Camera: Frank Hammond /
Costume: Clare Griffen / Design: Ro Bruen-Cook / Directors: Ric
Pellizzeri (episode 1) / Chris Adshead (episode 2) / Brendan Maher
(episode 3)
cast
MARTIN SACKS as Alan Scott / ROWENA WALLACE as Elaine Seymour / DENNIS
MILLER as Ray Scott / MAGGIE MILLAR as Lorna Scott / PETER SUMNER as
Philip Seymour / DIANA DAVIDSON as Madeleine / JOY SMITHERS as Gillian
Porter / LISA HENSLEY as Christine Scott / JACQUI McKENZIE as Penelope
Seymour / GRIGOR TAYLOR as Mike O'Brien / RALPH COTTERILL as Mr Bower
/ JOE DOLCE as Franco / BRENDA ADDIE as Mrs Birch / JOHN LEE as Sir
Peter Edwin
ALL
TOGETHER NOW
9
Network-Telltale / 46x30m-e / 1991-93
Sitcom.
Fading rock star Bobby Rivers has his fifteen year old twin children
(which he didn't know about) move in with him following the death of
their mother. The show was to have been originally called Rhythm and
Blues.
production
details
Producers:
Alan Hardy, Kris Noble
cast
JON A. ENGLISH as Bobby Rivers / REBECCA GIBNEY as Tracey Lawson /
JANE HALL as Anna Sumner / STEVE JACOBS as Thomas Sumner / GARRY UTO
as Doug Stevens / BRUNO LUCIA as Wayne Lovett / KERRY ARMSTRONG as
Beth Sumner (1992)
ALOHA
HAWAII
ABC /
x30m-e / 1958 black and white
Producer/Director:
Theo Charlestrom
Variety
series set in Hawaii but filmed in Sydney. Compere was Harry Willis
and featuring Margaret Day and Johnny Wade and his Hawaiian band.
ALMOST
ANYTHING GOES
10
Network-Willard King Organisation / x60m-e / 1976-78
Producer:
John Collins
A
frantic run around game show based on the UK-French show It's A
Knockout with two teams competing in various challenges most of which
seemed to involve water. The show later returned as It's A Knockout.
With Tim Evans, Brendon Edwards, Sean Kramer and referee Ron Barassi.
ALPHA
SCORPIO
ABC /
6x30m-e / 1974 black and white
Writer/Producer:
James Davern / Directors: Keith Wilkes, David Zweck, Ric Burch
Children's
scifi drama serial. Two kids on a camping holiday (Aireys inlet in
Victoria) learn that Aliens are planning to take over the Earth. An
alien character in this called Andra later appeared in a follow up
also called Andra. The title music for this was
from The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Rick Wakeman.
With:-
PETER HEPWORTH / KEVIN WILSON / TERRY GILL / NEVILLE THURGOOD /
ALEXANDRA HINES / KURT LEDESCHER / IAN SMITH
ALTERATIONS
ABC /
1x90m-e / 1988 (Broadcast 13 March)
Drama.
Both partners in a relationship have affairs, the film was in two
parts focusing first on the woman Ann's affair then in part 2 on the
mans Richard's.
production
details
Writer: Cory
Taylor / Camera: Jeff Malouf / Music: Andrew Bell / Design: Leigh
Tierney / Costume: Ron Dutton / Executive Producer/ Director: Julian
Pringle
cast
RICHARD MOIR as Richard / ANGELA PUNCH-McGREGOR as Ann / LINDEN
WILKINSON as Martha / STEVEN JACOBS as Michael / GILLIAN JONES as
Rachel / ALAN DAVID LEE as Rober / HELEN MUTKINS as Caroline / PAUL
BERTRAM as David
THE
ALTERNATIVE
7
Network-Grundy / 1x75m-e / 1978
Drama.
Unmarried Melanie, working for a woman's magazine falls pregnant and
tries to juggle her new child with holding down a career.
production
details
Writer: Tony
Morphett / Camera: Russell Boyd / Design: Darrell Lass / Producer:
Robert Bruning / Director: Paul Eddey
cast
WENDY HUGHES as Melanie / PETER ADAMS as Noel / CARLA HOOGEVEEN as
Linda / ALWYN KURTS as Doherty / KEN GOODLET as Melanie's Father /
BETTY LUCAS as Melanie's Mother / ANNE HADDY as Helen / MARY MACKIE as
Mrs Millbank / JACKIE REES as June
ALVIN
PURPLE
ABC /
13x30m-e / 1973
Sitcom.
Bawdy adventures of the title character whom women seem to be unable
to keep their hands off. Based on the popular 1973 film of the same
name.
production
details
Writer: Alan
Hopgood
cast
GRAHAM BLUNDELL as Alvin Purple / CHRIS HAYWOOD as Spike / COLIN CROFT
as Dad / DAWN LAKE as Mum / ANGELA PUNCH McGREGOR as Lucy / LIZ HARRIS
as Miriam / SYD HEYLEN as Perce
ALWAYS
AFTERNOON
SBS-Afternoon
Pictures / 4x60m-e / 1988 First episode: 7 March
Period
drama serial. During World War II farm girl Frieda Kennon falls in
love with German Franz Mueller, interned in a nearby camp.
production
details
Writer/Director:
David Stevens / Novel: Gwen Kelly / Camera: Ellery Ryan / Costume:
George Liddle / Producer: Henry Crawford
cast
TUSHKA BERGAN as Frieda Kennon / JOCHEN HORST as Franz Mueller / LISA
HARROW as Nancy Kennon / MARSHALL NAPIER as Bill Kennon / DIETER
KIRCHLECHNER as Kurt Schrieber / HERBERT TRATTNING as Wolfgang / BEN
BECKER as Ernst / MATTHEW BURTON as Peter Stein / SIMON BURKE as Tom /
JOHN POLSON as John / TAYA STRATON as Ailsa
ALWAYS
GREENER
7
Network / x60m-e / 2001-2002
Drama
series. Both John Taylor and his widowed sister Sandra are at the
middle stages of their lives and both feel somewhat stifled, social
worker John is struggling with the strains of his job whilst Sandra is
under financial pressure, John lives in the city but while on a visit
to his country living sister the pair hit on the idea of trading
places.
With:-
JOHN HOWARD as John Taylor / ANNE TENNEY as Liz Taylor / MICHALA BANAS
as Marissa Taylor / DANIEL BOWDEN as Jason Taylor / NATASHA LEE as
Kimberley Taylor / CAITLIN McDOUGALL as Sandra Todd / BREE WALTERS as
Phillippa Todd / ABE FORSYTH as Campbell Todd
THE
AMOROUS DENTIST
ABC (Pert
of the Verdict series) / 1x75m-e / 1983
Period
crime drama. The story of 1860's doctor Dr Louis Bertrand who was
accused of murdering one of his patients.
production
details
Writer:
Ted Roberts / Novel: Robert Travers / Producer: Alan Burke / Director:
Peter Fisk
cast
ROBERT GRUBB as Dr Louis Bertrand / JULIET JORDAN / ROBIN BOWERING /
DAVID ATKINS / RHYS McCONNACHIE / ELAINE MORGAN / RON HADDRICK
AMPOL
STAMP QUIZ
9
Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1964 black and white
Children's
general knowledge quiz show in which the star prize was
a trip to Disneyland. Hosted by Digby Richards and
Little Patti.
AND
HERE COMES BUCKNUCKLE
ABC
/ 6x30m-e / 1981
Writer:
Alan Hopgood / Producer: Keith Wilkes / Directors:
Norman Johnsono, Keith Wilkes
Comedy
drama serial. A sequel to And the Big Men Fly (SEE
BELOW) and which featured the character of Bucknuckle
determined to train up his horse to win the Melbourne
Cup.
With:-
PETER CURTIN / JOHN BLUTHAL / DENISE DRYSDALE / BRUCE
SPENCE / REG EVANS / NONI HAZLEHURST
AND
THE BIG MEN FLY
ABC
/ 6x30m-e / 1973 black and white
Writer:
Alan Hopgood / Producer: Oscar Whitbread / Director:
Keith Wilkes
Comedy
drama serial. A young farm lad becomes a big star of
Aussie rules football, his special skills involve him
playing barefoot. See also above for the sequel And Here
Comes Bucknuckle.
With:-
FRANK WILSON / JOHN HARGREAVES / DENNIS MILLER / BARRY
McQUEEN / REG EVANS / GEORGE MALLABY / COLIN McEWAN /
DIANE CRIAG / MAURIE FIELDS
AND
MILLIONS WILL DIE
9
Network-Australian Amalgamated Pictures / 1x75m-e / 1973
Crime
drama. A police unit which specialises in environmental style cases
try to track down the perpetrators of a poison gas attack - this was a
pilot for a possible series that was to have been called E-Force.
production
details
Writers:
Mende Brown, Michael Fisher / Camera: Paul Onorato / Producer: Mende
Brown / Director: Leslie Martinson
cast
RICHARD BASEHART / SUSAN STRASBERG / LESLIE NEILSON / JOSEPH FURST /
PETER SUMMER / ROWENA WALLACE / CARMEN DUNCAN / WILLIE FENNELL
ANDRA
ABC
/ 8x30m-e / 1976
Writer:
Eugene Lumbers / Novel: Louise Lawrence / Producers: Christopher Muir
/ Directors: John Gauci, Mark Callan
Children's science
fiction series. A sequel to Alpha Scorpio. In the
year 4000AD the brain injured Andra, living in sub city one is given the
preserved brain of a kid from the 1980's.
With:- TERRI
ALDRED / NATALIE BATE / ADRIAN WRIGHT / SUZANNE DUDLEY / JOHN GARRETT / JONATHON
HARDY / MARCEL CUGOLA / HENK VISSCHEYDYK / ROBERT HEWETT
ANIMAL DOCTOR
9 Network-NLT-Freemantle / 39x30m-e / 1969
Creator:
Malcolm Hulke / Producer: Roger Mirams
Adventure
series. Stories of an outback bound vet. Filmed at Ajax film
studios Sydney and on location in New South Wales.
cast
DON PASCOE / BINDI WILLIAMS
/ LUTZ HOCHSTRAATE /
SONIA HOFFMAN
ANIMAL
PARK
7
Network-Sunshine Films / 16x30m-e / 1991
Camera:
John Stokes / Music: Garry McDonald, Laurie Stone /
Producer: Ken Methold, Penny Wall
Drama
series. A widow and her three kids inherit a run down
hotel with an animal sanctuary as part of the property
and they set about turning it into a growing concern.
Filmed at the Gold Coast's Movie World.
With:-
TONY HAYES / ZOE BERTRAM / MARK HEMBROW / ALYCE PLATT
THE
ANNETTE KLOOGER SHOW
ABC /
x30m-e / 1959-61 black and white
Producer:
Fred Maxian
Variety
series hosted by Annette Klooger and featuring regulars
such as Dennis Biggons, Frank Sheldon, The Unichords and
The Ted Preston Quartet.
ANZAC
7
Network-Artransa / 26x30m-e / 1961-62 black and white
Writers:
Guy Harriott, H.G. Kippax / Music: Tommy Tycho / Camera:
George Lowe / Producer/Director: Alex Ezzard
Mammoth
documentary series looking at the experiences of the
Australian and New Zealand armed forces through both
world war I and WWII. Narrated by Ron Haddrick.
THE
ANZAC STORY
ABC
/ 8x30m-e / 1965 black and white
Music:
Tommy Tycho / Producer/director: Frank Hunter
Similar
to the above but not as indepth and made in co-operation
with the National War Mueseum.
ANZACS
9 Network-Burrowes Dixon Co / 5x120m-e / 1985 October - November
Wartime
drama serial. During World War One a group of Aussie
soldiers, especially Martin Barrington and Dick Baker, are
caught up in the carnage that took place at Gallipoli. The
soldiers were in the 8th battalion and they saw action
both in the Dardanelle and on the Western Front.
production
details
Writers: John
Dixon, John Clarke / Idea: John Dixon / Camera: Keith Wagstaff /
Design: Lesley Binns / Music: Bruce Rowland / Costume: Jane Hyland /
Producer: Geoff Burrowes / Directors: John Dixon, George Miller, Pino
Amenta
cast
ANDREW CLARKE as Martin Barrington / PAUL HOGAN as Pat Cleary / MARK
HEMBROW as Dick Baker / JON BLAKE as Flanagan / CHRISTOPHER CUMMINS as
Roly Collins / MEGAN WILLIAMS as Kate Baker / TONY BONNER as Harold
Armstrong / SHANE BRIANT as 'Kaiser' Schmidt / PETER FINLAY as Bluey /
PATRICK WARD as Tom McArthur / VINCENT BALL as Sir Rupert Barrington /
ILLONA ROGERS as Lady Thea Barrington / NOEL TREVARTHEN as Sir Douglas
Haig / DAVID BRADSHAW as Keith Murdoch
ANY
QUESTIONS
ABC /
x30m-e / 1958-60 and then 1963-64
A show
based on a UK radio original that saw prominent personalities
interviewed by the studio audience. Hosted by Frank Legge.
ANYTHING
GOES
7
Network / x55m-e / 1968 black and white
Producer:
Jon Ewing
A
comedy themed variety show that was a sort of follow up
to The Mavis Bramston Show after that show was
cancelled. The shows working title was The Great All
Electric Tap dancing Show. Featuring Nancye Hayes, Reg
Livermore, Bryan Davies, Johnny Lockwood, Penny Ramsey
and Barbara Wyndon.
ARCADE
Network 10
/ 60x30m-e / 1980
Short
lived and very over hyped nightly soap soap style drama series.
Stories of the staff who worked in a Sydney shopping mall, the show
was deemed to be bad enough to be pulled after 30 of it's 60 episodes.
Actor Jewremy Kewley said of the show "Arcade" was NOT a Crawfords or Grundys series (as is often reported). It was one of the first shows (in Australia) financed and produced in-house by a Network (it is now more common - "Home and Away", etc). At the time, the 0-10 Network was being taken over by Rupert Murdoch and was being streamlined and
changed into "Network Ten". The in-house idea was a big part of the problem with "Arcade". Each Channel/State put money into the show and had a say in it's production. Hence the problems - Sydney wanted more raunchy stuff,
Perth and Melbourne wanted more comedy, and so on. This also led to the strange situation of it being shown in different time slots around the country . .. . and one state running it longer than the others"
production
details
Creators: Bill Harmon, David Sale, Johnny Whyte / Executive Producer:
Peter Bernardos / Producer: Bill Harmon / Music: Mike Perjanik
cast
PEGGY TOPPANO as Miriam Sparks / LORRAE DESMOND as Molly Sparks / GREG BEPPER
as Joey Fellows / JEREMY KEWLEY as Robbie Stewart / PATRICK WARD
as Craig Carmichael / OLGA TAMARA as Di Smith / CHRISTINE HARRIS
as Tina Marshall / MIKE DORSEY as Vic Marshall
/
GARTH MEADE as Norman Pendleton / MAGGIE STEWART as Iris Pendleton / CORAL KELLY
as Consuela McPhee / BILL CHARLTON as Len Crosby / AILEEN BRITTON
as
Joyce Blair / SYD HEYLEN as Walter Blair / TRACY
MANN as Susie Blair / MARTIN PORTUS as Teddy Pullen / LUCY TAYLOR as Si Wan Soo
/ RAYMOND NOCK as Phillip Soo / SINAN LEONG as Mee Ling / JOY MILLER
as Kitty Adams / DANNY ADCOCK as Duncan Adams / ANNE SEMLER
as Magda Yokochek / ALLAN PENNEY as Mr Henderson
ARCHER
10 Network-Roadshow Coote and Carroll / 1x128m-e / 1985 (Broadcast 3
November)
Period
drama. Teenager Dave Power travels across Australia with his horse
Archer to take part in (and win) the first Melbourne cup.
production
details
Writer: Anne
Brooksbank / Idea: Mike Norris, Bob Ellis / Camera: Frank Hammond /
Design: Herbert Pinter / Music: Chris Neal / Producer: Moya Iceton /
Executive Producers: Gregory Coote, Matt Carroll / Director: Denny
Lawrence
cast
BRETT CLIMO as Dave Power / ROBERT COLEBY as Etienne de Mestre /
NICOLE KIDMAN as Catherine / TONY BARRY as Squatter / PAUL BERTRAM as
Lord Alfred / ANNA-MARIA MONTICELLI as Anna / NED LANDER as Jack
Curtis / DOREEN WARBURTON as Cook / CLAIRE CORBETT as Maid / ROBIN
BOWERING as Mr Power / HELEN McDONALD as Mrs Power
ARENA
ABC /
2x60m-e / 1976
Drama
serial. A lawyer helps a golf pro who has been suspended by the
Professional Golfer's Association.
production
details
Writer:
Michael Craig / Producer: Eric Taylor
cast
JOHN MEILLON / RAY BARRET / CHELSEA BROWN / JOHN EWART / VINCENT BALL
/ MAX MELDRUM / DAVID NETTHEIM / JULIE HAMILTON / BRIAN BLAIN /
PATRICK AMER / MAX OSBISTON
ARE
YOU BEING SERVED
10 Network-Lyle McCabe Prod/ 16x30m-e / 1980-81
Sitcom.
A transference of the UK department store comedy to Australia where
the original had proved to be very popular. Of the original cast John
Inman reprised his role. The
original English scripts were mainly used
production
details
Writer:
Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft / Producer/Director: Bob Spiers
cast
JOHN INMAN as Mr Humphries / June Bronhill, Shan
Bourne, Peter Collingwood (later replaced by Ken Frazer in
'81), Tony Bazell, Reg Gillam, Reg Evans, Judith Woodruffe,
Basil Clarke, Kerry Daniel, Tracey Kelly
ARMY
WIVES
Roadshow
Coote and Carroll / 1x97m-e / 1987
Drama.
Two close friends have their relationship put to the test after
marrying soldiers of very different ranks.
production
details
Writer: Anne
Brooksbank / Source: Lyndall Crisp / Camera: Ross Berryman / Design:
Andrew Blaxland / Costume: Terry Ryan / Music: Chris Neal / Producer:
Pamela H. Vanneck / Executive Producers: Matt Carroll, Gregory Coote /
Director: Denny Lawrence
cast
JULIE NIHILL as Jill / LIAN LUNSON as Wendy / SHANE CONNOR as Grant /
PHILIP QUAST as Peter / WAL LEHMAN / PETER SUMNER / MARILYN ALLEN /
RUSSELL NEWMAN as Fletcher / B COLE as Kathleen / LINDA NEWTON as
Marion / MADELINE BLACKWELL as Bev / ANDREA MOOR as Ros
AROUND THE WORLD WITH BRIAN ADAMS
10 Network / 26 x 25m-e
/ 1981
Producer: Harry Michaels
Brian Adams looks at different cultures around the world.
ARVO
ABC / x 120m-e /
1979-80
Producer: Jon Stephens / Creator: Michael Salmon
Weekday afternoon round up of
kids shows with links bewteen the shows by Ron Blanchard and Alexander the
Bunyip. The title meant Alexander's Recycled Visual Offerings and in 1980 the
show underwent a title change to 'Alexander's After noon'.
ASK THE
FAMILY
10 Network
/ x 25m-e / 1971 black and white
Producer: John Collins
Twice-weekly quiz show
based on a UK original that featured two families (made up
of parents and two children) embarking on a series of
rounds against each other. Hosted by Don Spencer and then
later by Earle Bailey.
ASK
THE LEYLAND BROTHERS
9 Network / x 25m-e
/ 1976-80 and 1983-84
Producers: Mike and Mal Leyland
Brothers Mal and Mike Leyland
travel across Australia visiting places requested by the viewing audience. The
team switched briefly to 7 for a time during the early 1980's for the show
called The Leyland Brother's Great Outdoors.
ASSIGNMENT
9 Network / 4 x 90m-e
/ 1971 Black + White
Producer: Henri Toluzzi
Current
affairs show hosted by John Bailey. Shown late night and only once a
month.
THE ASTOR SHOWCASE
ATN / 7 x 55m-e
/ 1958-59 black and white
Music
themed variety show hosted by Kevin Colson and featuring
Tommy Tycho and his orchestra.
AT HOME
7 Network / x 50m-e
/ 1993
Executive Producers: John
Collins and Robyn Collins Director: Ted Jobbins
Weekday morning entertainment
show. Hosted by John Mangos, with regular appearances by Stuart Wagstaff and
Lyndey Milan.
ATTITUDE
ABC / x40m-e /
1993-94
Producer: Denise Eriksen
Current affairs show aimed at
the youth market, hosted by Samantha Butler.
AUCTION
FOR AUSTCARE REFUGEES
10
Network / 1x60m-e / 1971 (Tuesday 29 June / 8.30pm)
A
celebrity charity event that saw well known personalities bidding in
an auction for specially designed garments in aid of the Austcare
Refugee Relief Fund.
AUCTION
SQUAD
7
Network / x30m-e / 2002 (First Episode: Wednesday 13 February /
7.30pm)
Lifestyle
show in which a team turn up to renovate a home that is
due to go for auction (in order to make the house as
saleable as possible), another show proving the networks
have a an obsession with lifestyle tv.
THE
AUNTY JACK SHOW
ABC /
13x30m-e / 1972-73
Comedy.
Often controversial sketch show starring the cross
dressing Aunty Jack who would dress as a pantomime dame,
wear one boxing glove and ride a motor bike, his/her
catchphrase was "I'll rip yer bloody arm off". A
special edition was broadcast on 1 March 1975 as an
attempt by the ABC to introduce viewers to colour TV. The
show began life as a couple of pilot radio shows for kids
which the ABC considered too scary for children. Graeme
Bond said in a TV Week interview on 10 February 1973 that
"the boxing glove? well that is sort of symbolic,
Aunty Jack is bigoted, but she sees herself as a golden
gloved fighter seeking justice". There was a one off
special following the series which was broadcast 8 June
1973 called Aunty Jack Rox On featuring retreads of some
of the best loved sketches and also four songs from a put
together band called Cool Bananas (in reality the group
were headed by former Easybeat Stevie Wright and called Black Tank)
There was a revival
of the character for the ten network in 1982.
cast
GRAHAME BOND as Aunty Jack / RORY O'DONOGHUE as Thin Arthur / SANDRA
MacGREGOR as Flange Desire / GARRY McDONALD as Kid Eager / JOHN DERUM
as Narrator Neville
AUSSIE
JOKERS
SBS /
9x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Thursday 26 July / 8.00pm)
A
collection of stand up comedy shows in which 9 immigrant comics talked
about the relationship between ethnicity and humour; those appearing
were:- 1. George Kapiniaris (Thursday 26 July) / 2. Ahn Do (Thursday 2
August) / 3. Hung Le (Thursday 9 August) / 4. Tahir Bilgic (Thursday
16 August) / 5. Happy Ho (Thursday 23 August) / 6. Joe Avati (Thursday
30 August ) / 7. Nick Godsell and Terri Psiakis (Thursday 6 September)
AUSSIES
ABC / 4 x 50m-e
/ 1988
Documentary look at what makes
Australian's Australian.
AUSTRALIA
A TO Z
ABC
/ 14x30m-e / 1970-71 black and white
Writers:
John O' Grady, Maurice Wiltshire / Producer: Bill Munro
Sketch
series that took for its basis the Australian way of life.
With Noel Ferrier, Max Cullen, Audine Leith, John Derum
(1970), Shane Porteous (1971), Don Pascoe (1971), Graham
Rouse (1971)
AUSTRALIA
AT WAR
10
Network / 13x50m-e / 1976
Writer:
Fred Cullen / Producer: Peter Press
In depth
documentary series that looked at all of Australia's
involvements in various wars upto the conflict in Vietnam.
Winner of two Logies. Created by Peter Hanrahan and Sally
Goodwin. Narrated by Tim Elliott.
AUSTRALIA
BEHAVING BADLY
Ten
Network / x60m-e / 2000
Dodgy
show attempting to catch Aussies in compromising situations after
being put to the test with various moral dilemmas. Hosted by Anna
Pinkus and Tim Smith.
AUSTRALIA
BY NUMBERS
SBS /
x30m-e / 2000 (First Episode: Tuesday 17 October / 7.30pm)
A
documentary series looking at different areas of Australia by virtue
of their postcodes, for instance episode one looked at the people who
lived within the postcode of Kulin 6365.
AUSTRALIA
TAKE A BOW
ABC-Soundsence
/ 7x30m-e / 1988
Producer/Director:
Brian Morris
Some
three years in the making this series celebrates Australia
with each edition focusing on a different state.
AUSTRALIA
TODAY
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1963
Producers:
Lee Robinson, Maslyn Williams
Documentary
series on the people and issues that have helped shape
Australia.
AUSTRALIA
UNLIMITED
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1956-61 black and white
Producers:
Anthony Evans, Margaret Delves, Fred Widdoes.
Series of
documentaries focusing on rural issues, the first such
series by ABC, one quirk meant that because of transmitter
coverage, rural viewers couldn't actually see the series.
Shown in only Sydney and Melbourne. Hosted by Bryan Todd,
Fred Widdoes and Brian Cockcroft.
AUSTRALIA?
YOU'RE STANDING IN IT
ABC
/ 16x30m-e / 1983-84
Producers:
John Eastway, Kris Noble
Comedy
sketch series focusing on Australia for its laughs and
also featuring a few characters who would later go on to
appear in Fast Forward. With:- Rod Quantock, Mary
Kenneally, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brooks, Evelyn Krape,
Tim Robertson and Sue Ingleton.
AUSTRALIA'S
FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS
9 Network/Taffner Ramsay / x50m-e / 1990-
An
adaption of a US original in which viewers sent in their
home videos of supposedly funny moments. Hosts have been
Graham Kennedy (1990); Jacki MacDonald (1991); Lisa
Patrick (1992); Jo Beth Taylor (1993-). Kim Kilbey
(-2002). Toni Pearon (from 15 February 2003)
AUSTRALIA'S
MOST WANTED
7
Network/Grundy Organisation / x50m-e / 1989/1993-94
Producers: Ian Bradley, Margaret Slark, Brian Bigg
This
series aimed to reconstruct unsolved crimes in the hopes
of jogging viewers memories enough to bring about an
arrest. Which it sometimes did. Shortened to 30 minutes
for the 1994 run. Hosted by Bryan Marshall (1989), Ann
Sanders (1993) and Sarah Henderson (1994)
THE
AUSTRALIAN KILLERS
10
Network / 1x60m-e / 1971 (Broadcast: Sunday 14 November / 7.00pm)
Wildlife
documentary about the deadly killers found in Australia from Tigers to
Taipan snakes to funnel web spiders and box jelly fish.
THE
AUSTRALIAN INVASION
10 Network / 1x60
minute episode /
Wednesday 10 November 1971
@
7.30pm
Producer: Les
Kallaway
This special traces
the plight of the small animals in Australia,
from their fossil remains located in
Sydney
museum; those held in captivity at Taronga Park Zoo, to those that
roam the wild making their homes in the cast Australian outback. The
program looks into the changing habits of these small ground and tree
animals as man encroaches farther and farter into their territories.
Les Kellaway,commissioned by Channel TEN to produce this special, has
travelled thousands of miles throughout the country making extensive
research into the plight of the small animal’s life of
Australia.
THE
AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE
ABC
/ 1x40 minute episode / Broadcast Monday 29 January 19763 @ 9.25pm
Producer: Brian
Adams
Documentary looking
at the way artists have treated the Australian landscape. Introduced
by David Thomas and filmed at a Sydney art gallery exhibition on the
subject.
AUSTRALIAN
LIFE
Lifestyle
Channel (Pay TV) / 13x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Saturday
23 July / 5.00pm)
Documentary
series looking at Australians who have tired of the rat race and of
the city life and gone to live
'in the bush'.
AUSTRALIAN
PLAYHOUSE
ABC
/ 40x30m-e / 1966-67 black and white
Producer:
David Goddard
This
series of plays featured many writers new to TV including
the likes of Tony Morphett, Pat Flowers and John Warwick.
AUSTRALIAN
WILDLIFE
ABC
/ 5x30m-e / 1963 black and white
Producer/Director:
Nandor Jenes / Writer: Grahame Pizzey
Wildlife
documentary series focusing on native animals and
presented by Grahame Pizzey.
THE
AUSTRALIANS
7
Network-Peter Luck Productions-Hanna-Barbera / 20x25m-e /
1981
Producers: Peter Luck, David Salter
Series of
individual documentaries.
AUSTRALIANS
AT WAR
ABC-Beyond-Mullion
Creek Prod. / 8x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode broadcast Anzac Day 25
April)
Series
Producer: Michael Caulfield / Co-Producer: Colleen Clarke /
Supervising Producer: Stephen Amezdroz / Directors: Geoff
Burton, Michael Caulfield, Tim Clark and David Goldie
Documentary.
Major, indepth look at the role played by Australia and Australian's
roles oin various wars, beginning with the Boar War at the end of the
19th century and coming upto date with the UN Peacekeeping Force. The
series was commissioned by the Australian Government with the
Department of Veterans' Affairs, as part of the commemorations to mark
the Centenary of Federation.
AUSTRALIAN
THEATRE FESTIVAL
ABC / 1980
An
umbrella title for a series of one off theatrical based dramas.
AUSTRALIA
STORY
ABC /
x30m-e / 1996-
A show
profiling Australians from all walks of life.
AUSTRALIA
TALKS
ABC /
13x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Thursday 9 August / 9.30pm)
A live
audience based discussion show focusing on different issues affecting
regional Australia. Presented by George Negus, each edition came from
a different part of Australia, for instance episode one came from
Mount Isa.
AUSTRALIA,
YOU'RE STANDING IN IT
ABC /
1983-84
Comedy.
Alternative style sketch show written by the cast who were part of a
Melbourne theatre group.
production
details
Producer/Director:
Nigel Price
cast
STEVE BLACKBURN / MARY KENNEALLY / GEOFF BROOKES / TIM ROBERTSON /
PETER BROWNE / ROD QUANTOCK
AUTUMN
AFFAIR
ATN-7Network
/ 156x15m-e / 1958 black and white
Australia's
first ever continuing drama series shown each weekday morning at
9.00am, the story told episodes in the life of a woman and her two
male friends.
cast
MURIEL STEINBECK / OWEN WEINGOTT / LEONARD BULLEN / JOHN HINSON /
JEANETTE CRAIG / QUEENIE ASHTON / DERYCK BARNES / REGINALD GOLDSWORTH
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