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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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