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FLASH
NICK FROM JINDAVICK
ABC /
4x30m-e / 1974 (First Episode Broadcast: 20 October)
Writers:
Bill Harding, Gary Reilly, Tony Sattler, John Wood / Executive
Producer: Bill Munro / Producer: Maurice Murphy / Directors: Robert
Gibson, Ted Robinson
Period
sitcom detailing the exploits of a pair of bushrangers, Flash Nick and
Lonely Reilly, in the early days of the colony of New South Wales.
This short funny show was a spin off from The Comedy Game.
With:-
GRAHAME BOND as Flash Nick / RORY O'DONOGHUE / GARRY McDONALD
FLASHEZ
ABC /
x30m-e / 1976-77
Producer:
George Pugh
Afternoon
magazine show (broadcast weekdays) aimed at teenagers and hosted by
Ray Burgess and Mike Mead.
FLASHPOINT
10
Network / 1x60 minute episode / Broadcast Friday 23 September 1973
Drama.
David, a young and new worker at a West Australian Iron Ore mine
discovers that his friend Foxy, who seems confident and assured on the
job, is really insecure and uncertain of his attractive wife who just
happens to be the only female among 50 males. Soon an explosive
situation develops.
cast
SERGE LAZAREFF as David / WYN ROBERTS as Foxy / JAN KINGSBURY as
Vicky
FLAT
CHAT
9
Network-Fox TV Australia-Nine Films-Television Pty Ltd /13x30m-e / 2001
Creator:
Alison Magney-Wall / Executive Producers: David Martin and Kris Noble
Sitcom.
Two women from different backgrounds find themselves becoming friends
after being forced to chare a flat together.
With:-
Jean Kittson as Claire Jansen / Alexandra Davies as Julie Coyne /
Richard Healy as Barry Coyne / Richard Wilsonas Nick Jansen / Marco
Pio Venturini as Anthony Coreno / Sarah Chadwick as Sarah / Merridy
Eastman as Katie / Sally Strecker as Arnya Duchevnic / Nick Hardcastle
FLICKS
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1975
Producer:
Peter Vendrell
Magazine
show looking at the latest film releases. Based on a UK
original called Cinema and hosted first by Alan Finney
and then by Stuart Littlemore.
FLIGHT
INTO HELL
ABC-Revcom
TV-WF-Andre Libik Film Prod / 4x75m-e / 1985
Writer:
Peter Yeldham / Book: Hans Bertram / Camera: Peter Hendry / Design:
Laurie Johnson / Costume: Jim Murray / Producer: Ray Alchin /
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Period
drama serial. In 1932, German pilot Hans Bertram and Adolph Klausmann
his mechanic are lost at sea for a terrifying 53 days. Based on a true
story.
With:-
HELMUT ZIERL as Hans Bertram / WERNER STOCKER as Adolph Klausmnn /
ANNE TENNY as Kate Webber / GERARD KENNEDY as Sgt Steve Lucas / DENNIS
GROSVENOR as Constable Maxwell / TIM McKENZIE as Constable Anderson /
PHILIP QUAST as Chris Gordon / ROBIN CUMMING as Captain Mitchell /
JILL PERRYMAN / NORMAN KAYE / WILLIAM KERR / KEVIN HOWARD / MICHAEL
WATSON / BILL PEARSON
FLOORSHOW
ABC
/ 13x30m-e / 1963 black and white
Producers:
Peter Page, Phillip Hickie
Musical
variety show hosted by comic Joe Martin whilst Enzo
Toppano provided the musical accompaniment.
FLOWERING
CHERRY
ABC
/ 1x75m-e / 1963 black and white
Writer:
Robert Bolt / Producer/Director: Colin Dean
Drama.
An English family face a crisis point in their lives.
With:-
GRANT TAYLOR / MARGO LEE / PETER ADAMS / ROSALIND
SEAGRAVE / DON PASCOE / FANK TAYLOR / ELIZABETH FERRIS
THE
FLYING DOCTOR
Crawford
/ 39x30m-e / 1959 black and white
Medical
action adventure series. Stories of a flying doctor working mainly in
the Australian Outback.
With:-
RICHARD DENNING / PETER MADDEN / JILL ADAMS / ALAN WHITE
THE
FLYING DOCTORS
9
Network-Crawford / 227x60m-e / 1986-91
Medical
drama series. Cases of the docs working for The Royal Flying Doctor
Service in the outback near the town of Cooper's Crossing. The series
proper was preceded by a 3x120m-e mini series broadcast March 1985.
With:-
ANDREW McFARLANE as Dr Tom Callaghan / LIZ BURCH as Dr Chris Randall /
ROBERT GRUBB as Dr Geoff Standish / GEORGE KAPINIARIS as Dimitrius
Ionniadis / BRETT CLIMO as David Ratcliffe
FLYING
START
ABC
/ 13x30m-e / 1986
A
sort of panel show which looked at offering expert
advice to small business owners. Host was Richard
Morecroft and the panel featured Barbara Slayter, Philip
Chandler and Bruce Bond.
THE
FLYING VET
Lifestyle
Channel (Foxtel) / x30m-e / 2001
Animal lifestyle
show that followed Northern Territory flying vet Peter Trembath as he
roved over his practice which covered an area of 500,000 square
metres. Trembath dealt with not only exotic animals but household pets
too.
FOCUS
SBS /
12x30m-e / 1983
Producers:
Gordon Bick, Leonard Lee
Documentary
series looking at the problems faced by many migrants.
FOLKMOOT
10
Network / 7x30m-e / 1965 black and white
Producer/Director:
Owen Weingott
Music
show dedicated to folk tunes and performers and
supposedly broadcast from the cellar of a coffee shop.
Hosted by Leonard Teale.
FOLLOWING
THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE
9
Network / 1x60m-e / 2002
Documentary
going behind the scenes of Philip Noyce's film Rabbit
Proof Fence (which followed the true stories of three
half caste "stolen" Aboriginal girls and their
escape from their settlement and return home to Jigalong).
The documentary used footage shot by various members of
the crew as well as Noyce's daughter.
FOOTBALL
QUIZ
10
Network / x30m-e / 1971
Friday
evening at 7.00pm footy quiz in which Rugby League stars were quizzed
on their football knowledge. Hosted by Don Lane and shown directly
before Lane's Look
at the League.
THE
FOOTY SHOW
9
Network / x60minutes / 1994-continuing
Prime
time rugby league/aussie rules variety show that is networked
nationally with the two different formats.
The
aussie rules version screens in Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia,
South Australia and the Northern Territory and is hosted by footy
commentator and Collingwood FC president (& Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire host, among other things) Eddie McGuire, former footballer
John 'Sam' Newman, comedian Trevor Marmelaide with a panel made up of
current and former star players.
The
rugby league version screens in in the rugby league heartland of New
South Wales and Queensland. It's been hosted
by Paul ‘Fatty’ Vautin and Peter ‘Sterlo’ Sterling since the
start but they were joined in 2001 by Newcastle legend Paul ‘The Chief’
Harragon, the boys made one more addition to the show in 2003 -
Matthew Johns, a regular contributor and mate of the show.
FOR
LOVE OR MONEY
ABC /
x30m-e / 1987-89
Music:
Greg Sneddon
Panel
show in which a team of experts assess the value of various antiques.
Hosted by Clive Hale.
FORD
SUPERQUIZ
9
Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1981-82
General
knowledge quiz hosted by Bert Newton (and his wife
Patti), the format closely followed that of Pick-A-Box.
Brought back as Superquiz in 1989 with Mike Walsh
hosting.
FOREIGN
CORRESPONDENT
ABC
/ x50m-e / 1992-
News
round up of stories from around the world. Hosted by
George Negus initially, at first seen on Saturday Nights
but later moved to a Thursday.
FOR
THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE
9
Network-Filmco-Patrick Payne / 3x120m-e / 1983
Writers:
Patricia Payne, Wilton Schiller / Novel: Marcus Clark / Camera: Ernest
Clark / Music: Simon Walker / Producer: Patricia Payne / Director: Rob
Stewart
Period
drama serial. The tragic story of Rufus Dawes, sentenced to
transportation to Tasmania, after escaping 18 years later Dawes meets
a girl he once loved but tragedy awaits the pair of them.
With:-
COLIN FRIELS as Rufus Dawes / SUSAN LYONS as Sylvia / ROBERT COLEBY as
John Rex / PATRICK MacNEE as Major Vickers / DIANE CILENTO / ANTHONY
PERKINS as Rev James North / SAMANTHA EGGAR / PENELOPE STEWART / ROD
MULLINAR / ANNA JEMISON / REG LYE
THE
40'S IN SWING TIME
ABC
/ 6x30m-e / 1973 black and white
Creator:
Chris Sheil / Producer/Director: Leigh Spence
Variety
show obviously geared towards the music and the
nostalgia of the 1940's with each edition focusing on a
different subject, Big Bands, Movies etc. Regulars were
Liz Harris, Sheila Bradley, Rhonda Finlayson and Brian
May.
FORTRESS
Crawford
/ 1x90m-e / 1986
Executive
Producers: Hector Crawford, Ian Crawford, Michael Lake, Terry
Stapleton
Thriller.
Teacher Sally Jones and her charges are kidnapped.
With:-
RACHEL WARD as Sally Jones / SEAN GARLICK as Sid / ELAINE CUSICK as
Mrs O'Brien / LAURIE MORAN as Mr O'Brien / MARC GRAY as Tommy / RAY
CHUBB as Publican / BRADLEY MEEHAN as Richard / REBECCA RING as
Narelle / TERENCE DONOVAN as Det Sgt Mitchell / NICK WATERS as Det Sgt
Cotter / ROGER STEPHEN as Mac the Mouse / ANNA CRAWFORD as Sarah
A
FORTUNATE LIFE
Nine
Network-PBL Prod / 4x1200m-e / 1986 First Episode: 9 March
Writer:
Ken Kelso / Biography: Albert Facey / Camera: Peter Levy / Design:
David Copping / Costume: Bruce Finlayson / Music: Mario Millo /
Producer: Bill Hughes / Executive Producer: Ian Bradley / Directors:
Henri Safran, Marcus Cole
Period
drama serial. The life and hard times of Bert Facey from his birth in
1894, from being abandoned by his mother at two to being horsewhipped
at 10 by his foster family through the ravages of World War One and
beyond.
With:-
ANTHONY RICHARDS as Young Bert Facey / BENEDICT SWEENEY as Teenage
Bert / ANTHONY RICHARDS as 9 year old Bert / SCOTT BARTLE as Bert aged
6 / PETER CUMMINS asBill Simpson / RAELENE HUGHES as Alice Jr McCall /
CAROLE SKINNER as Shalagh Phillips / MARTIN VAUGHAN as Frank Phillips
/ DOROTHY ALLISON as Grandma / BILL HUNTER as Charlie Bibby / KRISTY
CHILD as Mrs Bibby / PAT BISHOP as Alice McCall / DALE RANDALL as Roy
Facey / JOHN LEY as Eric Facey / LESLIE WRIGHT as Jack Lander / JOY
HRUBY as Ma at Cave Rock / RAY MEAGHER as Bab Bob / JOHN STONE as
Harry / BILL KERR as The Narrator
FORUM
ABC
/ x30m-e and x45m-e / 1965-66 black and white
Producer:
Eric Fullilove
Public
debate show chaired by Professor Brin (father of Olivia)
Newton-John. Revived by SBS in 1980 (60 minute episodes)
with Mike Schildberg and Paul Griffiths.
FOUR
CORNERS
ABC /
x30m-e / 1961-continuing
Long
running current affairs show that began on 19 August 1961. The idea
was to create a kind of Australian Panorama (the UK's long running current
affairs show). The first
presenter was Michael Charlton, other hosts include Richard Carleton, Mike
Willesee, Caroline Jones, Ray Martin, Paul Lyneham, Paul Barry, Kerry O'Brien
and David Marr. On Monday 20 August 2001 there was a 90 minute special
celebrating 40 years of the show. The show won its first logie in 1962.
FOUR FOR
THE SHOW
ABC / 10x30m-e
/ 1963 black and white
Producer/Director:
James Upshaw
Variety
series that featured Michael Cole, Stuart Finch, Judy
Banks and Shirley Summers. Music was by Jimmy Gussey and
the ABC Dance Band.
THE
FOUR MINUTE MILE
ABC-BBC-Oliver
and Sullivan / 2x90m-e / 1988
Writer:
David Williamson / Camera: Ian Warburton, Colin Munn, John Deeble /
Design: Tracy Watt, Don Taylor / Music: Richard Hartley / Producers:
Pom Oliver, Errol Sullivan / Executive Producers: Ross Dimsey, Graham
Massey / Director: Jim Goddard
Period
drama serial. The fascinating race during the 1950's between five
athletes, Roger Bannister and Chris Chataway (from the UK), Finland's
Denis Johansson, the USA's Wes Santee and John Landry from Australia
all striving to become the first man to run a mile in under four
minutes, with Roger bannister, of course, becoming the first to do so.
With:-
RICHARD HUW as Roger Bannister / NIQUE NEEDLES as John Landry / ADRIAN
RAWLINGS as Chris Chataway / JOHN PHILBIN as Wes Santee / LEWIS
FITZGERALD as Denis Johansson / MICHAEL YORK as Franz Stampfl / TRACY
MANN as Jill Webster / GENEVIEVE PICOT as Marjorie Jackson / CHARLES
'BUD' TINGWELL as Sandy Duncan / ADRIAN DUNBAR as Norris McWhirter /
RICHARD WILSON as Harold Abrahams / ROBERT BURBAGE as Christopher
Brasher / MARK PARNELL as Don MacMillan
THE
FOUR-POSTER
ABC /
1x90m-e / 1964 black and white
Writer:
Jan de Hartog / Producer/Director: James Upshaw
Bedroom
comedy about a marriage from the years 1895 to 1953.
With:-
ANNE HADDY / ALASTAIR DUNCAN
THE
FOURTH WISH
ABC /
3x75m-e / 1974 black and white
Writer:
Michael Craig / Design: Roger Ford / Producer/Director: Eric Taylor
Drama
serial. When he learns his son is dying James Casey sets out to give
his son three wishes:-to get a dog; to have a reunion with his mother
and to meet the Queen.
With:-
JOHN MEILLON as James Casey / MARK SHIELDS-BROWN as Sean / NOELINE
BROWN as Connie / BARRYHILL / BARBARA FRAWLEY / JOE JAMES / JUDI FARR
48 HOURS
7 Network /
1x60m-e / 2000 (Broadcast: Monday 13 November / 7.30pm)
Challenge game
show in which three contestants were dumped half way around the world with
only their passport and $200 in cash. The trio had to pass three checkpoints
and be home within 48 hours to win the star prize of $25,000.
FRANK
AND FRANCESCA
ABC
/ 6x30m-e / 1973 black and white
Producer:
Oscar Whitbread / Novel: David Martin / Directors: Ric
Burch, Douglas Sharp
Drama
serial. A pair of Melbourne based migrant families, the
Tarranova's and the Messina's get involved in a
vendetta. All very Romeo and Juliet but pretty adult for
it's day.
With:-
ALAN WILSON / LENICE REED / PAULINE CHARLESTON / ALLEN
BICKFORD / PETER CUMMINS / GUS MERCURIO / DENNY LAWRENCE
FRANKIE'S
HOUSE
ABC-Anglia-Roadshow
Coote and Carroll / 2x120m-e / 1992
Writer:
Andy Armitage / Book: Page after Page by Tim Page / Camera: Ross
Berryman / Design: Murray Picknett / Costume: David Rowe / Music: Jeff
Beck, Jeff Leiber / Producers: Matt Carroll, Eric Fellner / Director:
Peter Fisk
Period
drama serial. Tim Page and Sean Flynn (son of Errol) work as
photographers during the Vietnam War and their pictures prove to be a
shock for the people at home.
With:-
IAIN GLEN as Tim Page / KEVIN DILLON as Sean Flynn / STEVE VIDLER as
Steve Cutler / STEPHEN DILLANE as Anthony Strickland / ALAN DAVID LEE
as Martin Stuart-Fox / ALEXANDRA FOWLER as Kate Richards / CAROLINE
CARR as Danielle Charasse / TOD BOYCE as John Steinbeck / NICHOLAS
HAMMOND as Major Frey / MARILYN ALLEN as Mrs Page / STEVE BASTONI as G
I Jarvis / DONALD BATTEE as Chu Lai Marine Sergeant / BETTY BOBBIT as
Surgeon
FREE
FOR ALL
9
Network-Screen Gems / x30m-e / 1973 black and white
Gameshow
based on Beat the Clock with the contestants having to
perform certain tasks (usually messy) within a set time
limit. Hosted by Ugly Dave Gray.
THE
FREMANTLE CONSPIRACY
7
Network-Misty Hill Productions / 2x120m-e / 1992 (January)
Writer:
John Misto / Idea: Thomas Keneally / Design: Ross Major / Costume:
Jean Turnbull / Camera: Brett Anderson / producer: Harley Manners /
Executive Producers: Matt Carroll, Alan Bateman, Victor Glynn
Period
drama serial. In 1870's Ireland a group of men are sentenced to
transportation to Australia, later one of the men, John O'Reilly,
escapes to America and then tries to mount a rescue attempt to free
his friends.
With:-
NIKKI COGHILL as Hanna / BERNARD HILL as Breslin / LLOYD MORRIS as
John O'Reilly / RICHARD MOIR as Hogan / JOHN DOYLE as Cranston / CONOR
McDERMOTTROE as Darrash / WILL UPJOHN as Keilly / ANTHONY O'KEEFE as
Wilson / KELLY DINGWALL as Sean
FRESH:
Cooking With The Australian Women's Weekly
9
Network / x30m-e / 2002-continuing
Daytime
cookery lifestyle show presented by Jason Roberts and also featuring
celebrity chefs both local and from overseas.
FRESH
START
ABC /
12x30m-e / 1990
Daytime
show looking at the problems faced by people with
learning difficulties. There were quite a few dramatised
segments within each show in order to get various points
across.
FRONTIER
1977
Writers:
Bruce Belsham, Victoria Pitt / Producer: Bruce Belsham / Executive
Producer: David Leonard / Director: Bruce Belsham
Period
drama serial.
With:-
PAMELA RABE as Rosa Campbell Praed / HUGO WEAVING as Governor Arthur /
JEROME EHLERS as Captain Tench / GEOFFREY RUSH as David Collins / MAX
CULLEN as Clark / NICHOLAS EADIE as James Stephen / NORMAN KAYE as
Lancelot Threlkeld / CHRIS HAYWARD as Ward Stephen / NOAH TAYLOR as
George Anderson / BARRY OTTO as Archibald Meston / BILL HUNTER as
Thomas Murray-Prior / JUSTIN ROSNIAK as Sylvester 'Wessie' Fraser /
KEVIN SMITH as Peter Prior
FRONTLINE
ABC-Frontline
/ x30m-e / 1994-97
Creators:
Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy, Tom Gleisner / Producers:
Debra Choate, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Michael Hirsh, Jane Kennedy
Comedy.
Spoof on current affairs shows. The show is also known as Behind the
Frontline and Breaking News.
With:-
ROB SITCH as Mike Moore / KEVIN J. WILSON as Sam Murphy / BRUNO
LAWRENCE as Brian Thompson / STEVE BISLEY as Graeme Prowse / TIRIEL
MORA as MATIN DI STASIO / JANE KENNEDY as Brooke Vandenberg / ALISON
WHYTE as Emma Ward / SANTO CILAURO as Geoffrey Salter / LYNDA GIBSON
as Trish
FRONT
UP
SBS /
10x30m-e / 1994
Producer:
Andrew L. Urban
Ordinary
people talk about their lives to Andrew L. Urban.
FROST
OVER AUSTRALIA
7
Network-Paradine Productions / 20x60m-e / 1972-74 black
and white
Producer:
Graham McPherson
David
Frost brings his chat show to Australia where he
interviews well known political figures and celebrities.
THE
FUGITIVE
Ten
Network / x30m-e / 2002
A
gameshow based on a radio original in which five
fugitives around the country are tracked down (or not as
the case may be) by members of the public, still heavily
tied in with the radio show (heard on various stations
across the country). The prize for finding the fugitive
varied from $10,000 to $100,000 and hosted by Matt
Tilley. Each edition, the Fugitive, in disguise, had to
perform a task, without being uncovered.
FULL
FRONTAL
7
Network-Artists Services / 28x60m-e / 1993-94
Executive
Producers: Ted Emery, Andrew Knight, Steve Vizard / Producers: Andrew
Knight, Doug MacLeod / Director: Ted Emery
Comedy.
Sketch show from the same stable as the similar Fast
Forward, this also took as its main area of mickey taking -
films, TV, music etc.
With:-ROSS
WILLIAMS / GLENN BUTCHER / KITTY FLANAGAN / KIM GYNGELL / FRANCIS
GREENSLADE / JULIA MORRIS / ERIC BANA / SHAUN MICALLEF / JENNIFER
WARD-LEALAND / MATT PARKINSON (1993) / JOHN WALKER (1994)
FUNKY
SQUAD
ABC-Frontline
/ 7x30m-e / 1995 24 April - 5 June
Creator:
Scott Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch /
Writer/Directors: Scott Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy /
Executive Producer: Michael Hirsch
Period
sitcom. Exploits of an ultra cool 1970's crime team. A spoof of all
manner of American crime drama series especially The Mod Squad. From
the team behind Frontline.
With:-
TIM FERGUSON as Blair Steele/Grant / JANE KENNEDY as Verity Svenson-Hart/Cassie
/ SANTO CILAURO as Joey Alvarez/Stu / TOM GLEISNER as Harvey Zdalka Jr/Poncho
/ BARRY FRIEDLANDER as Baldwin Scott/The Chief
FUSIONS
ABC
/ 6x30m-e / 1969 black and white
Rock
music show featuring the group Tully making much use of
sound and visual effects. Tully were:- Michael
Carlos, Robert Taylor, Richard Lockwood, John Blake and
Terry Wilson.
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