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Cooking show hosted by the frantic paced Graham Kerr who well deserved his "Galloping Gourmet" nom de plume. The show was later retitled The Galloping Gourmet. Kerr was a large fellow and made much use of butter and other such naughty ingredients in his recipes but he returned in the 1990's (as guest on daytime tv shows and the like) in a new slimmed down version extolling the virtues of low fat cooking. 

THE ERIC BANA SHOW LIVE

7 Network-Artist Services / x60m-e then later x30m-e / 1997

The Eric Bana show was initially a variety/chat type show of hour long episodes that was later during its run turned into a straightforward half hour sketch show. The show also featured quite a few of the characters Eric had created during his time with Full Frontal. Thanks to Barry Bits for his contribution to this entry.

ERNIE AND DENISE 

9 Network / x50m-e / 1992-?

Producers: Paul Staff, Shauna Kane

An "advertainment" type morning talk show with Denise Drysdale and Ernie Sigley talking to people and talking about various products. Interstingly separate versions were filmed for NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

THE ERNIE SIGLEY SHOW 

9 and 10 Networks / x90m-e / 1974-75 and 1977 

Producer: Bob Phillips

Mixture of talk music and comedy sketches initially twice weekly and much in the vein of the Tonight Show. 

ESCAPE

7 Network / 13x60m-e / 1988

Lifestyle. Travel show focusing on trips throughout Australia. Reporters included Evan Green, Yolanta Novak, Rhys Jones, Peter Hillary and Roger Clarke.  

ESCAPE FROM JUPITER

ABC-NHK-Film Australia / 13x25m-e / 1994

Executive Producer: Ron Saunders / Producer: Terry Jennings

Children's scifi drama series. The inhabitants of a space colony are forced to flee to Earth on a derelict space station. The crux of the story featured five kids living on Io one of Jupiter's 16 moons, thanks to an inadvertent drilling operation which causes the moon to start to crumble causing the survivors to flee. The series made ample use of computer generated graphics and was an Australia-Japan co-production. For some reason the show was screened first in the UK.  

With:- STEVE BISLEY as Duffy / ARTHUR DIGNAM as Professor Ingessol / DANIEL TAYLOR as Michael / JUSTIN ROSNIAK as Gerard / ANNA CHOY as Kumiko / ABRAHAM FORSYTHE as Kingston / ROBYN MACKENZIE as Anna / ANNE TENNEY as Helen / LINDEN WILKINSON as Beth / KAZUHIRO  MUROYAMA as Tatsuya / SAEMI BABA as Akiko

ESCAPE OF THE ARTFUL DODGER

13x30m-e / 2001

Executive Producers: Andrew Brooke, Roger Mirams / Producer: Roger Mirams / Director: Howard Rubie / Writers: David Philips, Karen Peterson, Robert Loader

Children's period action adventure series. Jack Dawkin's aka ace pickpocket The Artful Dodger is transported to Australia during Victorian times and finds himself in adventure at every turn. A spin on the Oliver Twist story by Charles Dicken's picking up Dodger's story from the end of that book.

With:- LUKE O'LOUGHLIN / ROWAN WITT / BRITTANY BYRNES / HENRI SZEPS

E.S.P. AND ALL THAT

10 Network / 1x60m-e / 1971 (Tuesday 29 June / 7.30pm)

A special show featuring hypnotist Martin St James along with guests Chris Kirby, Tommy Kirby, Tommy Hanlon Jr and Bobby Donovan. As well as all the usual hypnosis type stuff there was also an attempt to get to the bottom of Extra Sensory Perception.

E STREET

10 Network-Westside / 404x50m-e / 1989-95

Creator/Executive Producer: Forrest Redlich /  Producers: Bruce Best, Terrie Vincent / Director: Robin Hardy

Drama series. Episodes in the lives of the residents of the inner city area of Wildside, initially the focus was on characters like GP Dr Elly Fielding, social worker Martha O'Dare, vicar Bob Brown and pub landlord Ernie Patchett, later the series descended into fantasy somewhat, in the style of a US daytime soap, with characters going blind, and some of the youngsters trying for pop stardom. Creator Redlich had been a producer on the couldn't be more different 'A Country Practice'.   

With:- PENNY COOK as Dr Elly Fielding (1989-92) / LES DAYMAN as Sergeant George Sullivan / CECILY POLSON as Martha O'Dare / VIC ROONEY as Ernie Patchett /  ALYSSA-JANE COOK as Lisa Doyle / MALCOLM KENNARD as Harley Brown/ BUNNEY BROOKE as Auntie Vi /  JAMIE FIELD as Dr Chandler Foster / TONY MARTIN as Reverend Bob Brown (1989-92) / RICHARD HUGGETT as Sonny Doyle / MARCUS GRAHAM as Wheels / KELLY ABBEY as Jo-Jo / MELISSA TKAUTZ as Nikki Spencer / ADRIAN LEE as CJ / VINCE MARTIN as Stephen Richardson / BRUCE SAMAZAN as Max Simmonds / TONI PEARON as Toni Windsor / MELISSA BELL as Bonnie / SIMON BAKER-DENNY as Sam / KATE RAISON as Sheridan Sturgess (1990-92) / CHELSEA BROWN as Abby Rossiter

EUGENIE SANDLER PI

ABC / 13x30m-e / 2000

Creator: David McRobbie / Executive Producer: Ewan Burnett / Producer: Margot McDonald

Children's crime drama series. Desperate to learn more about her hidden past Eugenie Sandler turns detective to uncover the facts determined to trace her father Rob, who is a private detective, Eugenie and her friend Warwick get caught up in adventure and mystery as she tries to find her Dad.

With:- XARIS MILLER as Eugenie Sandler / MATTHEW VENNELL as Warwick Bedford / BRETT CLIMO as Ray Sandler / MARTIN JACOBS as Detective Matt Gurney / ODETTE  JOANNIDES as Detective Teresa Brady / SASKIA POST as Angela Duker / ALEX MEGLET as Davorin / JASPER BRAGG as Slavomir  

EUREKA STOCKADE

7 Network-Eureka Stockade Film Partnership / 3x120m-e / 1984 March-April

Writer: Tom Hegarty / Camera: Keith Wagstaff / Design: Leslie Binns / Costume: Anne Fraser / Music: Bruce Smeaton / Producer: Henry Crawford / Executive Producer: Carnegie Fieldhouse / Director: Rod Hardy

Period drama serial. The story of the 1854 Victoria gold miners rebellion led by a pair of Irishmen - Timothy Hayes and Peter Lalor. Filmed at Bendigo in Victoria. On Thursday 3 February 1977 @ 9.30pm Channel 7 broadcast an hour long documentary about the event.

With:- BRYAN BROWN as Peter Lalor / BILL HUNTER as Timothy Hayes / CAROL BURNS as Anastasia Hayes / AMY MADIGAN as Sarah Jamieson / TOM BURLINSON as Father Smythe / PENELOPE STEWART as Alicia Dunne / BRETT CULLEN as Charles Ross / FRANK THRING / STEPHEN HAYES / TIM HUGHES / DAVID BRADSHAW / ROD MULLINAR 

EVERYBODY

ABC-Film Australia / x30m-e / 1991-92

Lifestyle. A look at health issues and how to help prevent certain diseases. People involved included Dr Kerryn Phelps, Trisha Goddard, Mike Hamilton, Gabriel Gate and from 1992 Lisa Forrest.

EVERYBODY'S TALKING

9 Network-Grundy / 400x30m-e / 1968-69

Producer: Reg Grundy

Daytime game show, based on a US original which saw people off the street give the answer to a question, the contestants then had to try and guess what the question actually was. Hosted by Philip Brady.

AN EVENING WITH...

ABC / x60m-e / 1974-75 black and white

Producers: Bruce Allen, John Worrell

General entertainment show that saw well known celebrities talk about their life and their favourite things. People involved included Googie Withers and her husband John McCallum, Richard Neville and Bill Peach.

THE EVIE HAYES SHOW

ABC / x30m-e / 1962 black and white

Producer: Fred Maxian

Variety series starring singer Evie Hayes, other regulars included Jeffrey Lenner, Will Mahoney and Frank Thorn.

THE EVIL TOUCH

9 Network-NBC-Amalgamated Pics / 26x30m-e / 1973

Producer: Mende Brown

THE EXPLORERS

ABC-BBC-Time Life / 10x30m-e / 1984

Music: Greg Sneddon / Producer: Bill Peach

A series of historical dramatised documentaries looking at some of Australia's earliest pioneers. People featured included Macquarie, Burke and Wills. Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (portrayed by Tom Oliver), Oxley, Sir Charles Sturt (played by Steve Grives), King (played by Chris Haywood), Leichhardt, Hume, and Lawson. 

EXPLOSION

ABC / 1x35 minute episodes / 8 May 1971  

EXTRA DIMENSIONS

10 Network-Beyond Prod / 13x50m-e / 1987

Producers: Richard Neville, Julie Clarke

A glimpse into things beyond our ken, looking at the unexplained and things of the mind and spirit. Hosted by Richard Neville and also with Jan Kingsbury, Amanda Keller, Bryan Smith and Ann-Louise Martin.

THE EXTRAORDINARY

7 Network-Showboat Prod / x50m-e / 1993

Producer: Warwick Moss

A series focusing on the paranormal and the unexplained with much use of dramatic reconstructions. Hosted by Warwick Moss.

EYE OF THE NIGHT

ABC / 1x75m-e / 1960  black and white

Writer: Kay Keavney / Producer/Director: Christopher Muir

Thriller. A mother dominated man goes on a spree of terror.

With:- BRIAN JAMES / BEVERLEY DUNN / DENNIS MILLER / NEVILLE THURGOOD / SYDNEY CONABERE / MOIRA CARLETON