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BLACKWATER TRAIL

10 Network-Rutherford Films-AFFC-Portman / 1x90m-e / 1995

Writer: Andrew Russell / Camera: John Stokes / Design: Georgina Greenhill / Costume: Philip Eagles / Producers: John Sexton, Julie Forster / Executive Producers: Andrew Warren, Chris Brown / Director: Ian Barry

Thriller. Returning to Queensland for a friends funeral writer Matt Curren is asked by the man's sister to look into the facts surrounding his death convinced that he was murdered.

With:- JUDD NELSON as Matt / DEE SMART as Cathy / MARK LEE as Chris / PETER PHELPS as Frank / ROWENA WALLACE as Beth / GABRIELLE FITZPATRICK as Sandra / BRETT CLIMO as Father Michael / DANIEL ROBERTS as Davies / JEAN-MARC RUSS as Terry / ELAINE MASKIEL as Nurse Sharon Jay / ROBERT YOUNG as Andy Green / PETER KENT as Attendant / BRENDON GLANVILLE as Waiter / PETER MENSFORTH as Brian McCarthy

BLACKOUT

ABC / x30m-e / 1989

Producer: Llew Cleaver-Pitt

THE BLANEY VIEW

ABC / 10x30M-E / 1982

A series that saw Professor Geoffrey Blainey look at what makes Australia Australia. Narrated by Graham Kennedy.

BLANKETY BLANKS

10 Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1977-1980

Quiz show hosted by Graham Kennedy in which two contestants try to find the missing word in a given sentence, 6 celebrities were on hand to help or hinder as the case may be. Regular panelists included Stuart Wagstaff, Noeline Brown, Carol Raye, Ugly Dave Gray, Noel Ferrier,  and Barry Creyton. The show had a high innuendo count thanks to the blanks being in just the right place in most of the sentences. The show has had two revivals. 1985 with Daryl Somers; 1996-97 with Shane Bourne. Regulars on this series included Rhonda Burchmore, Marty Field and Annie Rigby. One new segment was The 'Dob in a Mate' part which saw Steven 
Jacobs take to the street to surprise somebody with the chance to win $1,000.

BLIGH

13x30m-e / 1992

Creators: Andrew Knight, Doug MacLeod / Producers: Andrew Knight, Steve Vizard

Period sitcom. Stories of Captain Bligh who following the Mutiny on the Bounty becomes the Governor of Sydney, New South Wales.

With:- MICHAEL VEITCH as Bligh / MAGDA SZUBANSKI as Mrs Bligh / WILLIAM McINNES as John Macarthur / GINA RILEY as Elizabeth Macarthur / JIMEOIN as Convict Griffin / PETER MOON as Rev Marsden  

BLIND DATE

10 Network-Grundy / x60m-e / 1991

Game show which saw a single girl choose from one of three single men (without actually seeing what they looked like) to go on a blind date with and then later in the show, the roles were reversed with the single man picking one of three women. They would then come back the following week to tell how they got on. Hosted by Greg Evans with help from Nicky Buckley later replaced by Ankie Nordberg.

BLINKY BILL

Australia-Germany / ABC-WDR-Yoram Gross / 52x15m-e / 1992

Executive Producers: Sandra Gross, Tim Brooke-Hunt / Music:Guy Gross / Producer: Yoram Gross

Children's animation. The adventures of young Koala Bear Blinky Bill. Based on the books by Dorothy Well. 

Voices:- Keith Scott / Robyn Moore

THE BLOCK

9 Network / x60mins 2x90mins 1x120mins / 2003-2004 

Reality. Hosted by JAMIE DURIE from Backyard Blitz, THE BLOCK featured 4 couples chosen from over 2000 hopefuls,  ADAM and FIONA, WARREN and GAVIN, AMITY and PHIL, and KYLIE and PAUL. With budgets of just $40,000 each, the couples had 11 weeks to out-design and out-decorate each other in a struggle to complete the best apartment in a four apartment block purpose built by 9 for the series. In the 12th week, the winning apartment was decided by the toughest judges of all – the buying public. The four apartments went to public auction on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August, with each couple keeping the profits made from the sale, so the better their renovation, the more money they made. The couple who made the most money at auction also won the grand prize of $100,000. Adam and Fiona emerged as the winners. 
Season two was even more successful than the first, the four couples, Richard and Steven, Matt and Jane, Jason and Kirsten & Andrew and Jamie spending much of their time bitching about each other and forming little cliques to do each other down, not a likeable soul amongst them but entertaining nevertheless. Winners for season two were Andrew and Jamie (this couple had only arrived on the series three weeks after everyone else as another couple, Danny and Monique, withdrew from the series following some unwanted press intrusions into their personal life). 

BLOCKBUSTERS

9 Network-ACTF / x 25M-E / 1991-94

SBS / 4 x 55m-e / 1993

THE BLUE LIGHTNING

7 Network-Roadshow Coote and Carroll / 1x96m-e / 1986 (May)

Writer: William Kelly / Camera: Geoff Simpson / Design: Chris Brechwoldt / Music: Frank Strangio / Producer: Ross Matthews / Executive Producers: Alan Sloan, Greg Coote, Matt Carroll / Director: Lee Philips

Thriller. American Harry Wingate is hired to get hold of a valuable opal being kept in high security conditions.

With:- SAM ELLIOTT as Harry Wingate / REBECCA GILLING as Kate McQueen / JOHN MEILLON as Dr Giles / ROBERT COLEBY as Trowbridge / MAX PHIPPS as Cathcart / RALPH COTTERILL as Words / ROBERT CULP as McInally 

BLUE MURDER

ABC-Southern Star / 2x120m-e / 1995

Writer: Ian David / Books: Line of Fire by Darren Goodsir; Neddy by Arthur Stanley Smith and Tom Noble /Design: Murray Picknett / Music: Peter Best / Camera: Martin McGrath / Producer: Rod Allan / Executive Producers: Penny Chapman, Errol Sullivan / Director: Michael Jenkins

Crime drama serial with a cop getting caught up in a world of police corruption. The production based on a true story couldn't at the time, for legal reasons, be shown in New South Wales. Unable to be shown in NSW, Australia, the production received its first showing there Tuesday 30 July 2001. The program was only finally shown because the DPP decided not to pursue Neddy Smith over a 1983 murder.  

With:- RICHARD ROXBURGH as Roger Rogerson / STEVE BASTONI as Michael Drury / TONY MARTIN as Neddy Smith / GARY DAY as Bill Crofton / STEVE JACOBS as Mal Rivers / MARCUS GRAHAM as Alan Williams / PETER PHELPS as Abo Henry / GARY SWEET as Christopher Dale Flannery / ALEX DIMITRIADES as Warren Lanfranchi / JOHN HARGREAVES as Chester Porter QC / ELENI BATLEY as Jaime Smith

THE BLUESTONE BOYS

0-10 Network-Crawfords / 26x60m-e / 1976

Creator: Ian Jones / Executive Producers: Ian Crawford, Ian Jones / Producer: Jock Blair

Comedy drama series. The exploits of a group of prisoners doing their best to get one over on the governor.

With:- BRIAN BLAIN / CHUCK FAULKNER / DENISE DRYSDALE / GARRY MEADOWS / GEORGE SPARTELS / VIC GORDON / ERIC OLDFIELD / CARLA HOOGEVEEN

BLUE WILDERNESS

ABC-Orano Films / 5 x 30m-e 1992

BLUEY

7Netwrok-Crawford / 39x60m-e / 1976

Creator: Ian Jones, Jock Blair / Executive Producer: Ian Crawford, Ian Jones

Crime drama series. Cases of a maverick cop who liked to do things his own way.

With:- LUCKY GRILLS as D.S. Bluey Hills / JOHN DIERDRICH as Detective Gary Lawson / GERDA NICOLSON as Sgt Monica Rourke / VICTORIA QUILTER as Jo Goldman / TERRY GILL as Reg Truscott / MERCIA-DEAN JONES as Debbie Morley / PETER AANENSEN as Detective Arthur Ferris

THE BOARDROOM

ABC-Falcon Films / 1x100m-e / 1987

Writer: Tony Wager / Camera: Chris Murray / Design: Kevin Sexton / Costume: Denise Napier / Music: Chris Murray / Producer: Pamela Borain / Executive Producer: Tom Hugall / Director: Brian Phillis

Comedy. Shenanigans amongst the board of Climax Holdings (both at work and at play).

With:- VINCENT BALL as Jonathan Hutt / TONY WAGER as James Cavill-Brown / COLIN McEWAN as Donald Malone / LESLIE WRIGHT as Wilhelm Shreik / IAN TOYNE as Bernard Hyams / SHAUNNA O'GRADY as Alice Prime / LEITH TAYLOR as Judith Hutt / RICK HEARDER as Rudolph Stilskin / KATHRYN ROWE as Juliet Hutt / MATTHEW QUARTERMAINE as Hatchett 

BOBBY DAZZLER

7 Network-Crawford / 14(including pilot)x30m-e / 1976

Creator: Terry Stapleton / Producers: Marie Trevor (series), Henry Crawford (pilot) / Executive Producer: Ian Crawford, Ian Jones

Sitcom. Would be successful singer Bobby Farrell who is on the verge of hitting the big time has trouble with both his new manager Della McDermott and his father Fred (back in his life after many years away).

With:- JOHNNY FARNHAM as Bobby Farrell / OLIVIA HAMNETT as Della McDermott / MAURIE FIELDS as Fred Farrell / TERRY NORRIS as Uncle Oz / CARLA HOOGEVEAN as Allison

THE BOBBY LIMB SHOW

9 Network / 39x60m-e / 1958-61 black and white

Producer: Alec Kellaway / Director: Peter Barnados

Variety show mixing comedy and music and hosted by both Bobby Limb and his wife Dawn Lake. Regulars included George Wallace Jr, Terry Scanlon, Hayes Gordon, Johnny O'Connor and the Bobby Limb Show Band. For the 1961 run the show was known as The Mobil Limb Show.  

THE BOB CROSBY SHOW

7 Network-Willard King Organisation / 34x75m-e / 1966 black and white

Producers: Bob Huber, Barry Langford and John Collins

Twice weekly mix of variety and chat hosted by Bing Crosby's brother, the show came from both Melbourne and Sydney, also involved were Kathy Lloyd and Stuart Wagstaff.

THE BOB MORRISON SHOW 

9 Network-Telltale Films / 13x25m-e / 1994

With:- NIKKI COGHILL / ANDY ANDERSON / ELISSA ELLIOT / CHRIS LYONS / BOB THE DOG (Voiced by STIG WEMYSS)

BOBBY LIMB'S SOUND OF MUSIC
9 and 10 Networks-NLT Productions / x50m-e /1963-70

BODY + SOUL

9 Network-Fox / x30m-e / 2002

BODY BUSINESS

9 Network-PBL / 2x120m-e / 1986 9-16 May

Writers: Michael Fisher, Ted Roberts / Idea: John Michael Howson / Camera: Mario Millo / Producer: Stanley Walsh / Director: Colin Eggleston

Drama serial. Patricia returns to Sydney after living in New York for a number of years determined to take over the family business but she has reckoned without the scheming machinations of her sister Victoria.

With:- ELIZABETH DESMOND as Patricia / CARMEN DUNCAN as Cassie Fairchild / JANE MENELAUS as Victoria / GARY DAY as Nick Christopher / GARY SWEET / TRISH NOBLE / ROBBIE McGREGOR / TONY HAWKINS / DOUG PARKINSON / MICHAEL PATE / AJMES CONDON / PATRICK FISHER / MERCIA DEANE-JOHNS / ELI FAEN / MAX PHIPPS

THE BODY CORPORATE

ABC / 1x80m-e / 1981

Writer: Robert Caswell / Producer/Director: Eric Taylor 

Strange fantasy type drama about Sir Arthur Trustrain who believes himself to be on a mission from God.

With:- LEONARD TEALE as Sir Arthur Trustrain / PAT MacDONALD / MERVYN DRAKE

BODYLINE 

10 Network-Kennedy Miller / 7x60m-e / 1984 First episode: 16 July

Writer: Terry Hayes, Denny Lawrence, Francine Finane / Design: Owen Williams / Camera: Dean Semler / Music: Chris Neal / Producers: George Miller, Terry Hayes, Doug Mitchell / Directors: Carl Schultz, George Ogilvie, Denny Lawrence, Lex Marinos

Period drama serial. The story of the controversial 1933 so called 'Bodyline' cricket tour by England to Australia in which the English bowlers led by Douglas Jardine went all out to beat the Aussies and used a highly quick bouncer style type of delivery to inflict maximum damage on the Australian team causing a major international dispute along the way.

With:- HUGO WEAVING as Douglas Jardine / GARY SWEET as Don Bradman / JIM HOLT as Harold Larwood / RHYS McCONNOCHIE as Pelham Warner / JOHN GREGG as Percy George Fender / HEATHER MITCHELL as Edith / JULIE NIHILL as Jessie / JOHN WALTON as Bill Woodfull / JOHN CLAYTON as Mr Bradman / COLLEEN FITZPATRICK as Mrs Bradman / ARTHUR DIGNAM as Mr Jardine / PETER GWYNNE as Oxlade

BODYSURFER

ABC-John Sexton prod / 4x60m-e / 1989

Writers: Suzanne Hawley, Chris Lee, Denis Whitburn / Stories: Robert Drewe / Camera: Jeff Malouf / Design: Annie Marshall / Music: Martin Armiger / Producer: Ross Matthews / Executive Producer: John Sexton / Director: Ian Barry

Drama serial. Sydney architect David Lang goes through some kind of mid-life crisis and although married embarks on a series of affairs quickly followed by a nervous breakdown. Winner of two AFI awards.

With:- PETER KOWITZ as David Lang / JOY SMITHERS as Lydia / LINDA CROPPER as Anthea / PATRICK WARD as Parnell / PENN HACKFORTH-JOJNES as Angela / ABIGAIL as Mrs James / FELIX NOBIS as Paul Lang / TIM ROBERTSON as Rex Lang / CLAYTON WILLIAMSON as Young Daniel / MARY LOU STEWART as Mrs Lang  

BOLSHOI BALLET

7 Network / 1x60m-e / 1971 (Broadcast: Thursday 17 June / 8.40pm)

A special featuring the famous Russian ballet company and filmed on their 1971 tour of Australia. Focus of the program was a performance of Swan Lake headlined by Maya Plisetskaya and Nicolai Fadeychev.

BONEY

Network 7-Fauna / 26x60m-e / 1972-73 Season One: 27 July - 9 November 1972 / Season Two: 22 January - 30 April 1973

Books: Arthur Upfield / Script Editor: Eric Paice / Producer: John McCallum / Executive Producers: Bob Austin, Lee Robinson

Crime drama series. The cases of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, part aboriginal, part white carrying out his investigations throughout Australia. The show created a bit of a stir through its use of blacking up the lead actor to play the half-caste Boney. See below for the 1990 revival. In TV Week 14 August 1971 James Laurenson said of the problems that him (as a white man) playing Boney may cause "Boney is pretty fair, with blue eyes, He's travelled a lot and had a university education, white people in the city rarely pick him as having aboriginal blood, but when he is in the bush the Aboriginals and the bushmen can pick him." 

With:- JAMES LAURENSON as Detective Inspector Napoleon 'Boney' Bonaparte / KATE FITZPATRICK as Constable Alice McGorr (season 2)

BONY

7 Network-Grundy International-GMBG Taurus Film-Unitel / 1x96m-e 13x60m-e / 1990 and 1992

Idea: Reg Watson / Music: Frank Strangio / Producer: David Lee, Jan Badleir

Crime drama series. Revival of the 1970's crime drama (see above) which saw the great-great grandson of the part Aboriginal detective working for the Northern Police Force and tackling a new series of cases. The series followed in 1992 from the 1990 pilot movie.

With:- CAMERON DADDO as David 'Bony' Boneyparte / BURNUM BURNUM as Uncle Albert / MANDY BOWDEN as Bev Miles

BORDERTOWN

ABC/10x60m-e / 1995

Writer: John Alsop, Sue Smith / Producer: Steve Knapman / Executive Producer: Penny Chapman / Director: Ken Cameron, Ian Gilmour

Period drama serial. Newly arrived immigrants to Australia try to create a home in the ramshackle army barracks known as Bordertown.

With:- CATE BLACHETT / LINDA CROPPER / MITCHELL BUTEL / KIM HILLAS / PETRU GHEORGHIU / MELITA JURISIC / NORMAN KAYE / PETA TOPPANO / HUGO WEAVING / CHRISTINE TREMARCO

THE BOX

10 Network-Crawford / 335x60m-e / 1974-77

Creator: Tom Hegarty, Ian Jones / Producers: Don Battye, Jack Blair, John Dommett/ One of the directors on the show was actor Charles Tingwell

Comedy drama series. Life inside TV Station Channel 12 especially focusing on characters like 'maverick cop' Tony Wild and his show Manhunt, host Gary Burke and reporter Vicki Stafford. The show made a habit of including characters based on well known TV people (both in front and behind the camera) of the time. Sir Henry Usher, head of Channel 12, was allegedly based on parts of Sir Reginald Ansett and Sir Frank Packer. Other characters included station general manager Max Knight; Production Manager Paul Donovan (George Mallaby won a Logie for his role as Donovan); Secretary Kay Webster and compere Peter Regan. Channel 7 turned the show down before Ten took up the option.

With:- BARRY BARKLA as Max Knight / BRIONY BEHETS as Judy Donovan / FRED BETTS as Sir Henry Usher / BELINDA GIBLIN as Kay Webster (74-75) / KEN JAMES as Tony Wild (74-76) / PAUL KARO as Lee Whiteman (74-76) GEORGE MALLABY as Paul Donovan (74-75) / TRACEY MANN as Tina / MONICA MAUGHAN as Jean Ford / JUDY NUNN as Vicki Stafford / LOIS RAMSEY as Mrs Hopkins / JILL FORSTER as Enid Parker / KEN SNODGRASS as Jack O'Brien / JOHN STANTON as Nick Manning

BOY IN THE BUSH

ABC-Portman / 2x120m-e / 1984 11-18 March

Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Novel: D.H. Lawrence and Mollie Skinner / Camera: Peter hendry / Music: Bruce Smeaton / Costume: James Murray / Design: Quentin Hole, Brett Moore / Producers: Ian Walker, Geoffrey Daniels / Executive Producer: Ray Alchin / Director: Rob Stewart

Period drama serial. In the 1880's English Jack Grant travels to Western Australia to work on a farm owned by relatives. 

With:- KENNETH BRANAGH as Jack Grant / SIGRID THORNTON as Monica Ellis / STEPHEN BISLEY as Esau / JON BLAKE as Tom Ellis / CELIA DE BURGH as Mary / JOHN FRAWLEY as Mr George / PAUL SMITH as Lennie / BUNNEY BROOKE as Gran Ellis / ALFRED BELL as Dr Rackett / HOWARD BELL as Pa Ellis / FELICITY GORDON as Ma Ellis / DON REID as Mr Grant / LYNNE MURPHY as Mrs Grant / RICHARD MORGAN as Herbert / LOUIS BROWN as Ross / JAMES SUTTON as Alan

THE BOYS FROM THE BUSH

ABC-BBC1-CV / 20x50m-e / 1991-92  

Creator: Douglas Livingstone / Producers: Verity Lambert, David Shanks 

Crime comedy drama series. An ex pat Englishman living in Oz runs a private detective agency called Melbourne Confidential in partnership with a woman obsessed Aussie. A UK-Australia co-producton.

With:- TIM HEALY as Reg Toomer / CHRIS HAYWOOD as Dennis Tontine / MARK HADDIGAN as Leslie / NADINE GARNER as Arlene Toomer / PAT THOMSON as Doris Toomer / KRIS McQUADE as Delilah

A BRACE AND A BIT

7 Network / 1x30m-e / 1974

Comedy pilot for a sitcom that never emerged. The misadventures of two brothers who run an antique shop in Paddington, Sydney.

With:- JAMES BOWLES / GARRY McDONALD / ROWENA WALLACE

BREAD AND ROSES

Beyond / 2x120m-e / 1993

Screenplay Graeme Tetley, Gaylene Preston / Executive Producer: Dorothee Pinfold / Producer: Robin Laing / Director: Rick Kofoed

Drama series set during and after World War II about a young woman, divorced at 17, who sets out to make a new and independent life for herself. An illegitimate child, Sonja Davies was born an 'outsider' with a natural sense of justice and an instinct to fight for the underdog, which brought her into early conflict with her middle-class family. Driven by the need to be accepted and to belong Sonja runs away from home at 16, and a year later has been married and divorced. Accepted as a trainee nurse during the war Sonja's life reflects the drama of that time. Her experiences only serve to strengthen her political ideals - the loss in battle of her GI lover, the birth of her child out of wedlock then separation from her baby daughter, and a prolonged life and death struggle with tuberculosis contracted whilst nursing. As the war ends Sonja is in hospital close to death. She is rediscovered by Charlie, a returned New Zealand soldier with whom she had an 'understanding' before he went off to the war. His engagement to another woman is broken off and he devotes himself to helping Sonja recover her health. They marry and are reunited with Penny, her young daughter, to become a family. New Zealand's post-war recovery period with its great opportunities and even greater difficulties is reflected in Sonja and Charlie's back breaking efforts to clear their recently purchased land for fruit growing. Shortages, bureaucracy, lack of facilities and finally Sonja's ill health, hamper their efforts to enjoy the new life everyone was promised after the war. A reluctant move back to the city is turned to advantage when Sonja and Charlie are made aware of the different kind of contribution they can make to help get the country back on its feet again. Their socialist principles are put to constructive use when they combine forces with others of a like mind and begin the 'grassroots' work that will occupy the rest of their lives. From her earlier days as a nurse Sonja found her strength in groups of women and it is among women she begins her political career. A 'women only sit-in' on a railway line threatened with closure - a gesture that scandalised a nation in 1955 when a woman's place was definitely in the home. This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman - a woman who emerges as a survivor but for whom mere survival is not enough, either for herself or for the rest of society. 

With:- Genevieve Picot as Sonjia Davies / Mick Rose as Charlie Davies / Donna Akersten as Mrs Mackersey / Tina Regtien as Con / Erik Thompson as Red / John Laing as Archie Barrington / Meredeth Parkin as Young Sonja / Raymond Hawthorne as Mr Mackersey / Judie Douglass as  Grandmother / Beryl Te Wiata as Nanny Mackersey / Richard Hanna as Lindsay / Maisie Frances as Kewene 

BREAKAWAY

ABC / 16x30m-e / 1977-78

Producers: John Colquhoun, Mary Delahunty

Lifestyle show that saw Stewart Falchney partaking in various extreme sports such as bungee jumping and white water rafting. 

THE BREAKAWAYS

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1967 black and white

Producer: Kip Porteus

Documentary that focused on six men just starting out on their careers. These were singer Ronnie Burns, architect Graham Gunn, designer Peter Langham, Uni graduate Charles Perkins, boutique owner David Sheinberg and editor Richard Walsh. Director Patricia Ludford and cameraman Frank Purnell were killed in a helicopter crash during filming.

BREAKERS

10 Network-TV4-Screentime / x30m-e / 1997-99

Creator: Jimmy Thomson / Producers: Andrew Howie, David Gould / Executive Producer: DesMonaghan

Soapy style drama series about a group of people living around the Bondi beach area. 

With:- JOHN ATKINSON as Steve Gordiano / GARY BAXTER as Bruce Donnelly / HEATH BERGERSON as Reuben Neeson / MIRANDA CHANCE as Jaime Esber / ANJA COLEBY as Crystal / LOUISE CRAWFORD as Lucy Hill / JULIE HASELER as Eve Simmons / RICHARD HEALY as Paul Healy / CHRISTIAN CORNELL as Nina / ANGELA KEEP as Cheree / SIMON MUNRO as Vince Donnelly / HELEN O'CONNOR as Kate Markham / EMILY PERRY as Terri Simmons

BREAKING UP

ABC / 1x90m-e / 1985

Writer: Frank Willmont / Producer: Noel Price / Director: Kathy Mueller

Drama. Two young brother find their lives being affected when their parent's marriage begins to fall apart.

With:- NICK ENRIGHT / MATTHEW STEVENSON / BRADLEY KILPATRICK / CANDY RAYMOND

THE BRIDES OF CHRIST

ABC-RTE-Roadshow-Coote and Carroll-C4 / 6x60m-e / 1991

Creator: Penny Chapman / Music: Mario Millo / Script Editor: Sue Smith / Executive Producers: Penny Chapman, Liam Miller / Producer: Sue Masters

Period drama series. Episodes in the lives of a group of nuns during the 1960's. The series won AFI awards for Best Mini Series, Best Actress (Lisa Hensley), Best Director and Best Script) Filmed at Douglas Park, NSW. 

With:- BRENDA FRICKER as Sister Agnes / JOSEPHINE BYRNES as Sister Catherine / SANDY GORE as Mother Ambrose / PAT BISHOP as Mary Maloney / LISA HENSLEY as Sister Paul / NAOMI WATTS as Frances Heffernan / KYM WILSON as Rosemary Fitzgerald / CAROLINE GILMER as Sister Philomena / STUART FINCH as Father Riordan / JOHN FRAWLEY as Bishop

BRIEF LIVES

ABC / 2x55m-e / 1969

Producer: Alan Burke / Director: Patrick Garland

Drama serial. The life of John Aubrey with Aubrey in Dirty Lane, Bloomsbury in 1697 looking back over his life.

With:- ROY DOTRICE

BRIGHT SPARKS

Yoram Gross Film Studios / 12x30m-e / 1989

Executive Producers: Philip Gerlach, Michael Caulfield, Sandra Gross / Producers: Pru Donovon, Yoram Gross

Documentaries on science and technology hosted by three animated characters - Sparky, Amy and Alex. Aimed at children 5-14 years old, Bright Sparks mixed live action backgrounds with animated characters.

BRUCE PETTY'S MAD CENTURY

SBS / 1x30m-e / 2000 (Broadcast: Tuesday 26 December / 7.30pm)

Documentary in which award winning animator Bruce Petty looked at the 20th century decade by decade. With each decade being given approximately 2 and a half minutes.

BRUMBY INNES

10 Network / 1x75m-e / 1973 black and white

Writer: Katherine Susannah Prichard from her own novel.

Drama. The less than likeable Brumby Innes  (who is not averse to taking advantage of Aboriginal women whilst drunk - which is most of the time) tries to change his ways after falling in love.

With:- DENNIS MILLER as Brumby Innes / LYNETTE CURRAN / VIC MARSH / PETER CUMMINS 

BURGO'S CATCHPHRASE

9 Network / close to a 1000 editionsx30m-e / 1996-continuing / shown weeknights at 5.30pm

Producer: Nina Campbell 

Game show presented by John Burgens in which the contestants compete on the buzzer in a series of rounds in which they have to try and guess what bizarre animated puzzles mean, winning money and prizes along the way.

BURKE'S BACKYARD

9 Network / x30m-e / 12 September 1987- 26 November 2004

Producer: Don Burke

LIfestyle show hosted by Don Burke and covering environmental issues, gardening tips and petcare with occasional peeks inside celebrity homes. An early pet expert was Dr Harry Cooper of Harry's Practice fame. Burke managed to make plants into a primetime event. "Collecting a Logie [Burke has six] was one of the most gut-wrenching moments of my life and the loss of privacy can be amazing. But I was determined to help people, give them good information and make them a little happier." Asked about his most memorable Backyard moment, Burke recalled the day he climbed naked into a peat bog for a segment on peat moss. "It was in the Southern Highlands and the temperature in there was about two or three degrees," he said. "I was in there for 45 minutes and I almost died. I was temporarily blind and it took two hours to thaw me out."

BURNED BRIDGE

ABC / 13x60m-e / 1992

Producer: Bruce Best / Executive Producers: Bruce Best, Penny Chapman / Directors: Julian Pringle, Scott Hartford Davis, Paul Faint

Thriller series. A woman becomes convinced that an Aboriginal man charged with the murder of his girlfriend is innocent and determines to see justice done.

With:- ERNIE DINGO as Vincent Burunga / CATE BLANCHETT as Elizabeth Ashton / JUSTINE SAUNDERS as Millie Carmichael / BOB MAZA as Alf Dyer / STEVEN VIDLER as Phil McCarthy / DAVID NGOOMBUJARRA as Mujadi Burunga / PAUL CAESAR as Macka Hargraves / RACHAEL MAZA as Leila Sutton / NICHOLAS PAPADEMETRIOU as Harry Bradshaw / WES PATTEN as Chris Dyer / DAVID KENNEDY as Robert Sutton / BRADLEY BYGUAR as Ricky Dyer / LISA KINCHELA as Sally Dyer

BURN THE BUTTERFLIES

ABC / 1x75m-e / 1979

Writer: Cliff Green / Camera; Ian Warburton / Producer/Director: Oscar Whitbread

Drama. When a nuclear plant in Scotland has a disaster the Australian public raises its concerns over the issue of uranium.

With:- RAY BARRETT as Prime Minister / FRED PARSLOW / GERARD MAGUIRE / GEORGE MALLABY / ALAN HOPGOOD / MONICA MAUGHAN / ROWENA WALLACE

BUSHBEAT

9 Network / x30m-e / 2000

Children's edutainment show presented by Kylie Currey and her animated co-host Floyd the Australian red-eye tree frog. Each episode looked at a different theme connected with the environment.

Drama series. The March family leave the country to live in the city after father takes a new job.

With:- Danny Adcock, Penny Ramsey, Simon Austin, Joanne Long, Vanessa Windsor

BUSH MECHANICS

ABC / 5x30m-e / 1999 and 2001

Producer: Jenni McMahon / Director: David Batty

A look at the extremes people living in the bush will go to keep their vehicles on the road. Initially a one off documentary broadcast in 199 followed by a four parter two years later.

THE BUSHRANGER

9 Network-Fedra / 1x75m-e / 1976

Producer/Director: Federico Chentrens / Novel: Wanted Dead by Kenneth Cook / Camera: Oscar Scherl / Music: Georgi Zinzi

Period drama. The less than friendly bushranger 'Hangman' Hatton tries to keep one step ahead of the law.

With:- LEONARD TEALE as 'Hangman' Hatton / JOHN HAMBLIN / KATE FITZPATRICK / KEVIN WILSON / MAX OSBISTON / PHIL RUSS

BUSH TUCKER MAN

ABC / 12x30m-e / 1988 and 1991

Producer: Andrew Lloyd James / Music: Rory O'Donoghue

A series in which survival expert Les Hiddings shows viewers (with often nauseating detail) how to love off the land.  

BUTTERFLY ISLAND

ABC (season 1) -7 Network (from season 2) RPTA / 1x90m-e x30m-e / 1985 1987 and 1992-93

Producer: Denny Lawrence / Executive Producer: James Dale

Children's drama series. A group of kids living at Butterfly Island always manage to get involved in adventure and intrigue.

With:- GRIGOR TAYLOR / PENNE HACKFORTH-JONES / MOUCHE PHILLIPS