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THE
EARLY BIRD SHOW
10
Network / 1984-89
A
Saturday morning kids show featuring a mix of cartoons,
music and guests and so on and hosted by Daryl Cotton,
Marie Van Maaren and Marty Monster (a man in a furry
Monster costume). This is the show featuring the
infamous incident of Marty being attacked by a Kangaroo
named Rags live on air. The "early bird"
concept had previously been seen from the 1970's non
nationally in Perth with SAS 10 (Adelaide) and 7 (Perth)
these stations telecast 'Earlybirds' shows featuring Fat
Cat and a female co-host (in Adelaide Veronica Overton
(70s) before Didi James (late 70s) and Jane Reilly (80s)
and a range of competitions, music film clips and the
obligatory cartoons. This show generally ran from 7am to
9am Monday to Friday.
EARTHWATCH
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1979-82 and 1986
Producers: Jon Stephens, Harvey Shore
Natural
History with an environmental outlook aimed at
teenagers. Hosted by Peter Cousens and then in 1986 by
Dr David Smith
EAT
CARPET
SBS
/ various running times (generally 30 or 60m-e) / 1989-?
Producer:
Joy Tama
A
collection of all types of productions - mostly in an
avant garde or experimental style.
ECHO POINT
10
Network-Southern Star / x30m-e / 1994-95
Creator/Producers:
John Edwards, Sandra Levy, Christopher Lee / Theme Music: A. Tierney, M.
Tierney, P. Begaud
Soap/drama series.
The lives and relationships of the people living in the small coastal town of
Echo Point.
With:- MARTIN
HENDERSON as Zac Brennan / JESSICA NAPIER as Edwina Amadio / KIMBERLY DAVENPORT
as Holly Winton / GORDON AMADIO as Allan Lovell / PHILIP GORDON as Daniel Blake
/ ROXANE WILSON as Coral / ROSE BYRNE as Belinda O'Connor / REBECCA MURPHY as
Frannie Loman / JOHN CLAYTON as Maurie Barnard / DIARMID HEIDENREICH as Dean
Loman / TOM LONG as Dave Campbell
THE ECHO OF
THUNDER
7
Network-Hallmark / 1x90m-e / 2000 (Broadcast: Friday 1
Dec / 8.30pm)
Director:
Simon Wincer / Novel: Thunderwith by Libby Hathorn
Drama.
Outback mother Gladwyn Ritchie fears the effects of her
stepdaughter Lara, aged 15, moving in. Lara finds it
hard to settle into the family (following the death of
her natural mother whom she was living with) but later
finds comfort in the company of a stray Dingo she calls
Thunderwith. Filmed near Victoria's Mount Beauty.
With:-
JUDI DAVIS as Gladwyn Ritchie / LAUREN HEWETT as Lara
Ritchie / JAMEY SHERIDAN as Larry
EDEN HOUSE
ABC / 1x30m-e /
1970 (Broadcast: Sunday 21 June / 8.30pm)
Play: Hall Porter
Drama. A woman's
pas sionate fight to preserve her home and the memories it holds for her against
the pres sures brought to bear by rela tives and friends. In the course of the
conflict, several family skeletons are revealed.
With:- MARGOT LEE
/ JOHN BONNEY / PAT BISHOP / DON PASCOE / LYN JAMES / DIANA DAVIDSON / PHILIPPA
BAKER / JEFFREY KEVIN
EDEN'S LOST
see Sumner Locke Elliott's Edens Lost
EDGE OF
POWER
9
Network-Somerset Films / 1x90m-e / 1987
Producers: Jan Tyrrell, James Michael Vemon / Director: Henri Safran / Writer:
Richard Cassidy / Music: Garry McDonald, Laurie
Stone / Camera: Peter Levy
Futuristic drama.
Just a few years in the future a journalist sets up a politician to take a fall
but finds things don't turn out as planned.
With:- Henri Szeps
/ Ivar Kants / Sheree Da Costa / Anna-Maria
Monticelli / Peter Corbett / John Stone / John Orcsik
EDGE OF THE
COLD
ABC / 4x30m-e /
1978
Producer/Photography:
David Parer
Wildlife.
15 months in the making this series examined the
wildlife found on an island midway between Australia and
the Antartic. Narrated by Sir Edmund Hilary.
EDGE
OF THE WEDGE
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1986
"Yoof"
aimed pop culture show broadcast Monday to Wednesday and
hosted by Tracey Callendar and Zoe Carides.
EGGSHELLS
ABC / 15x30m-e /
1993
Writer: Geoffrey
Atherden / Executive Producer: John O'Grady / Producer: Geoff Portman
Sitcom. Frank Rose
has to juggle his relationships with his two girlfriends and also his ex-wife
and kids.
With:- GARRY
McDONALD as Frank Rose / JUDY MORRIS / SUSAN MORRIS / CHRISTINE AMOR / DON
BARKER / REBECCA SMART / JUSTIN ROSNIAK
ELEPHANT
BOY
7 Network-Global
Television / 26x25m-e / 1973
Producer: James
Gatward
Children's drama
series. Adventures of a young Indian boy with his own elephant - the pair worked
on a game reserve - logging. Source material was Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the
Elephants.
With:- Kevin Miles
/ Janet Kingsbury
ELEVEN AM
7 Network /
x60m-e / 1975-199?
Producer: Neil
Mercer
Current affairs
show broadcast weekdays 11am, hence the title, hosts included Ann Sanders, Roger
Climpson, Mike Bailey, Ken Begg,
Graham Kennedy and Steve Liebmann.
ELLE McFEAST:
The Queen and I
Ten Network /
1x60m-e / 2000 (Broadcast: Thursday 23 November / 8.30pm)
Comedy documentary
in which Elle McFeast travelled to the UK to find out what she could about The
Queen, there were contributions from Diana's brother Charles Spencer, Diana's
mum Frances Shand Kydd and also the Queen's personal milliner Frederick Fox.
ELLY AND
JOOLS
9
Network-Southern Star Sullivan / 12x25m-e / 1990
Producer: Posie Graeme-Evans / Director: Karl Zwicky / Music: Chris Harriot
Children's spooky
comedy drama series. A young boy befriends a young girl ghost who haunts
the guest house in Waterloo Creek run by his parents.
With:- Rebecca
Smart / Clayton Williamson / Anne Tenney / Abigail / Dennis Miller / Damon
Herriman / Vanessa Collier / Sascha Huckstep / Peter Fisher
EMBASSY
ABC-Grundy
Motion Pictures / 39x50m-e / 1990-92
Producer: Alan
Hardy / Writers: Shane Brennan, Terry Stapleton, Denise Morgan and John Cundill
/ Creators: lan Bradley and Anne
Lucas / Music: Peter Sullivan
Drama
series. Stories of the Australian Ambassador and his staff in the
Islamic country of Ragaan. Catherine Wilkin became the ambassador for
the third and final season. Filmed in Fiji.
With:-
Bryan Marshall (1990-91) / Catherine Wilkin (1992) / Alan
Fletcher / Janet Andrewartha / Oerard Maguire (1990) / Nina Landis
(1990-91) / Joe Spano / Nicki Wendt / Lex Marines / John Poison (1992)
EMERGENCY
GTV-9 / 16x30m-e
/ 1959 (First Episode: 16 January) black and white
Producer: Roland
Strong
Medical drama
series. Episodes both professional and personal in the lives of the doctors and
nurses of a busy Emergency ward, the series was heavily influenced by the UK
show Emergency Ward 10, then very popular. Producer Strong also wrote most
of the scripts for the show (under a variety of names).
With:- MOIRA
CARLETON / SYD CONABERE / JUDITH GODDEN / BRIAN JAMES
EMERGENCY
LINE
7-Grundy /
x60m-e / 1974 black and white
Afternoon viewers
phone in show in which the public tried to get help with their personal problems
from a panel of experts. Made in Adelaide and hosted by Father Bob Hailstone.
THE EMIGRANTS
ABC-BBC /
4x75m-e / 1976 (May)
Writer: Brian
Phelan, Charles Stamp, Peter Kenna, Keith Dewhurst / Producers: Frank Hatharly,
Eric Taylor / Executive producer: Frank Hadderly / Directors: David Giles,
Eric Taylor
Drama serial. An
Australian co-production.The Parker family decide to emigrate from Sussex to
Australia.
With:-
MICHAEL CRAIG as William / SHEILA REID as Mary / BRIAN DEACON as Michael / PENNE
HACKFORTH-JONES as June / SIMON GIPPS-KENT as Paul / LESLEY MANVILLE as Janice /
JOE RITCHIE as William Parker Sr
EMMA: QUEEN
OF THE SOUTH SEAS
10 Network-Anro
Productions-International Film Management / 2x120m-e / 1988 (November)
Writers: Ann
Chapman, Ross Matthews / Novel: Geoffrey Dutton / Camera: Geoffrey Burton /
Costume: Graham Purcell / Design: Neil Angwin / Music: John and Felicity Halsey
/ producer: Ross Matthews, Ann Chapman / Executive Producers: Rob Chapman,
Antony I. Ginnane / Director: John Banas
Period drama
serial. The power struggles of Royal born Samoan Emma especially her dealings
with US, UK and German governments.
With:- BARBRA
CARRERA as Emma / STEVE BISLEY as Tom Farrell / THAAO PENGHLIS as Albert
Steinberger / HAL HOLBROOK as Jonas Coe / BARRY QUINN as The Hon W.H. Lyttelton
/ RON HADRICK as Rev Brown / REBECCA RIGG as Phoebe Coe Parkinson / GERARD
KENNEDY as Capt Rabardy / JUNE SLATER as Mrs Dr Lane / E.G. MARSHALL as
President Ulysses S. Grant / HENK JOHANNES as Lt Kolbe / ANDREW TIGHE as Captain
Forsyth / BOB BAINES as Mr Keegan
ENCOUNTER
7 Network-Crawfords /
x25m-e / 1968-69 black and white
Talk show hosted by Barry
Jones which generally aimed to discuss controversial issues.
THE
END BEGINS
ABC / 1x70m-e / 1961
black and white
Writer: Ray Rigby
Futuristic drama about
three people stuck on a remote island (somewhere off the coast of Britain) after
world war three has broken out.
With:- Donald Crosby / Joe
Jenkins / Fay Kelton / Douglas Kelly / Keith Hudson / Syd Conabere
THE END OF
THE CORRUGATED ROAD
ABC / 1x30m-e /
2001 (Broadcast: Monday 9 July / 11.00pm)
Documentary. A
celebration of the Warumpi Band as they geared up to play their final gig in
October 2000. There were contributions from Cathy Freeman, Peter Garrett and
Archie Roach.
ENGELBERT
HUMPERDINK
7 Network / 1x60m-e /
1970 (Sunday 21 June / 7.30pm)
A special recorded in
Sydney headlined by Gerry Dorsey from Leicester, England, aka Engelbert
Humperdink. His guests included Lena Horne, Joel Grey, the Vanity Fair and
Trisha Noble. Songs sung by Enge included Il Mondo, Winter World of Love
and What is This Thing Called Love?
ENGLISH
AT WORK
SBS / x30m-e /
1991-?
Producer: Diane Sundin /
Writer: Helen Joyce
A show designed to help
migrants to Australia get to grips with the English language, with the use of
dramatised segments to illustrate various points.
With:- Kim Antonious / Mark
Fitzpatrick / Grant Galea / Pamela
Morrissey
THE
ENTERTAINERS
7 Network-Crawford
Productions / 10x55m-e /1969 black and white
Producers: Raymond Menmuir, James Upshaw / Writer: Hugh Stuckey
Musical variety series
hosted by Tommy Hanlon and featuring regulars Rod McLennan, Geraldine
Fitzgerald, Bruce Barry and Christine Roberts.
ENTERTAINING
FRIENDS
10 Network /
x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Saturday 21 April / 7.30pm)
Lifestyle. Host Deborah
Hutton teams up with various celebrity guests and top chefs to provide tips on
hosting the perfect dinner party.
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