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THE
GAMES
ABC-Beyond
Productions / x60m-e / 1998-2000
Creators:
John Clarke, Ross Stevenson / Music: Jeremy Smith / Producers: Denise
Eriksen (1998), Mark Duge (2000)
Comedy
drama series. An irreverent, pseudo documentary style series where the
film crew have carte blanche access to the fictional managing
body of the Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (SCCCG) ,
as they attend meetings, briefings, site inspections and press
conferences. The Games takes a behind the scenes, warts and all view
of the 'Committee' at work. ABC scheduled season two so that the 13
episodes ran until the week before the opening of the
Olympics on 15 September, as outrageous as many of the
storylines were they were allegedly nothing compared to
the real life SOCOG.
With:-
JOHN CLARKE / GINA RILEY / BRYAN DAWE / NICHOLAS BELL / BARRIE CASSIDY
/ ROSS STEVENSON / LOUISE SIVERSEN
THE
GENIE FROM DOWN UNDER
UK-Australia
/ BBC-ABC-Australian Children's TV Foundation / 26x25m-e / 1995 and
1998
Executive Producers:
Anna Home, Patricia Edgar / Music: Frank Strangio / Script Consultant:
Esben Storm / Producers: Peter Jackson, Phil Jones, Jeremy Swan,
Elizabeth Symes, Patricia Edgar
Children's fantasy
sitcom. When English Penelope Townes discovers a magic opal she
discovers it holds two Australian Genies within it - Bruce and his son
Baz.
With:- ALEXANDRA
MILMAN as Penelope Townes / RHYS MULDOON as Bruce / GLENN MELDRUM as
Baz / IAN McFADYEN as Bubbles / ANNA GALVIN as Lady Diana Townes /
FLETCHER HUYMPHREYS as Conrad von Meister / JACINTA STAPLETON as
Sophie / EMILY MILBURN as Marcia / MARK MITCHELL as Otto von Meister /
MONICA MAUGHAN as Miss Mossop
GETAWAY
9
Network/ x60m-e / 1992- continuing (First Episode Broadcast: 14 May
1992)
Holiday show which in
its first series looked at only Australian resorts but by 1993 had
expanded to look at overseas places. The original reporters were Jeff
Watson(1992-98), Tina Dalton / Anna McMahon (1992-93), David Reyne
(1992-93/then 1996-) and Rebecca Harris (1992-97). Other hosts have
included Jane Rutter (1994), Chrissy Morrisey (1995), Lochie Daddo
(1994-99), Catriona Rowntree (1996-), Sorrel Wilby (1996-) and Ben
Dark (1999-)
GETTING
BACK TO NOTHING
ABC /
1x50m-e / 1971 (Broadcast: Tuesday 8 June / 9.25pm)
Director: Tim
Burstall
Documentary about the
1970 World Surfing Championships that took place at Bells Beach in
Victoria. The contest was won by Rolf Arness (son of James 'Gunsmoke'
Arness).
THE
GIOCONDA SMILE
ABC /
1x75m-e / 1963 black and white
Writer: Norman Gear /
Story: Aldous Huxley / Producer/Director: Patrick Barton
Drama.
The death of his crippled wife spells upheaval for a
wealthy man and his mistress.
With:-
ALEXANDER HAY / ELIZABETH WING / FAY KELTON / WILLIAM
LLOYD / ROMA JOHNSON / KEVIN COLEBROOK
THE
GIANT'S TOOTH AND OTHER STORIES
ABC /
8x15m-e / 1999
Children's short
stories based on well known Australian stories.
THE
GIRL FROM STEEL CITY
SBS-Sinegroup
/ 23x30m-e / 1986 and 1989
Writer:
Angelo Loukakis / Music: Tony Karras / Producers: John
Martin, Colin Baker
SBS's
first continuing soap style drama series, albeit
shortlived, this told the story of a Greek girl living
in Wollongong and determined to make it as a singer.
Filmed in both Greek and English.
With:-
ELLI HART / MICHAEL GARIFALAKIS / NANCY CARUANA / TONY
BLACKETT / JANE SEABORN / ERIC OLDFIELD / JIM
SPYRIDOPOULUS / GRACE PARR / RAINA McKEON
THE
GIRL FROM TOMORROW
Australian
Film Foundation-Film Australia Prod / 24x25m-e / 1990-92
Writers: Mark
Shirriefs, John Thomson / Music: Nicholas McCallum / Producer: Noel
Price / Executive Producer: Ron Saunders
Two children's scifi
drama serials. A girl from the 26th century finds herself in the 20th
century where she is helped by a young girl called Jenny. In the
second 12 part serial the girl from Tomorrow travelled back to her own
time taking Jenny with her.
With:- KATHARINE
CULLEN as Alana / MELISSA MARSHALL as Jenny / JOHN HOWARD as
Silverthorn / JAMES FINDLAY as Petey / HELEN O'CONNOR / ANDREW CLARKE
as James / MILES BUCHANAN as Eddie / HELEN JONES as Tulisa / PAULINE
CHAN as Arva / MONROE REIMERS as Bruno / CATHERINE McCLEMENTS as
Lorien (serial 2) / ANDREW WINDSOR as Macro (serial 2)
GLAD
RAGS
9
Network-BBC-Nomad-Southern / 13x25m-e / 1995
Writer: Trevor Todd /
Executive Producers: Kris Noble, Douglas Stanley / Producers: Kate
Faulkner, Douglas Stanley / Director: Robert Stewart
Children's sitcom.
Lizzie Forbes, living above the fancy dress hire shop, Glad Rags,
run by her mother, often gets involved in adventure; Usually
with her two friends Gino and Brendan whose parents also ran shops
either side of Glad Rags. An Australia-UK co-production.
With:- BROOKE 'MIKEY'
ADAMS as Lizzie Forbes / SARAH CHADWICK as Patricia 'Trish' Forbes /
JOHN MUNACKEN as Gino Ambino / LUCIANO MARTUCCI as Gilbert Ambino /
BRETT FERRIS as Brendan Punch / CARMEL JOHNSON as Fiorella Punch
/ JEROME EHLERS as Grame M. Marsden
GLASS
BABIES
9
Network - PBL / 2x90m-e / 1985 22-24 April
Writers:
Greg Millin, Graeme Farmer / Concept: Russell Scott / Camera: Ellery
Ryan / Design: Peter Tyers / Music: David Skinner / Producer: Peter
Herbert / Executive Producer: Ian Bradley / Director: Brendan Maher
Drama.
When his son Michael and his wife Sally are unable to have children
wealthy businessman John Craig arranges for them to have private
in-vitro fertilisation treatment, later when Michael dies Craig tries
to take Sally's child from her. The serial mixed a bit of everything
with sex, murder, greed, revenge, big business and corruption all in
the plot.
With:-
GEORGE MIKELL as John Craig / ANDREW SHARP as Michael Craig / BELINDA
DAVEY as Sally Craig / ROWENA WALLACE as Dr Gloria McCrae / GARY DAY
as Brendan Keller / DEBORA-LEE FURNESS as Joan Simpson / ASHER KEDDIE
as Anna Simpson / WILLIAM ZAPPA as Dr Browning / KERRI EICHHORN as
Helen / KIKO LANIS as Dimitri / STEWART FAICHNEY as Bob Simpson /
CHRIS HALLAM as Ricky Josephs / PHIL SUMNER as Todd
THE
GLASS HOUSE
ABC /
x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: 24 August / 8.00pm)
A
discussion type show in which Dave Hughes, Will Anderson
and Corinne Grant looked at the weeks events.
GLENVIEW
HIGH
7
Network-Grundy / 39x60m-e / 1977-78 (First Episode Broadcast: 30
September 77)
Producer:
Ron McLean / Music: Mike Perjanik
Drama
series. Life for the teachers and students at the tough inner city
secondary school of the title, especially English teacher Greg Walker
fresh from teaching in a rural country school.
With:-
GRIGOR TAYLOR as Greg Walker / REBECCA GILLING as Robbie Dean / ELAINE
LEE as Margaret Gibson / KEN JAMES as Tom Walker / CAMILLA ROUNTREE as
Jill Beamish / BRANDON BURKE as Tony Moore / BILL KERR as Harry Carter
/ TIM BURNS as Miller / EVA DICKINSON as Helen / GEORGINA McLAUGHLIN
as Sharon
GO!!
10
Network-DYT Productions / 60m-e and also x30m-e /
1965-67 black and white
Producer:
Julian Jover
Pop
music show. The first compere was Alan Field, a little
known British entertainer who hosted the Beatles first Australian
tour. He hosted the first 21 episodes starting from 4th August 1964.
The last show was a 60min special episode hosted by Ronnie Burns
on 17th Sept. 1967. Thanks to Rod Jermanus for additional info.
THE
GODFATHERS
9
Network-Gemini / 72x25m-e / 1971-72 black and white
Creator
(and main writer): Michael Lawrence / Music: Michael
Caulfield / Producers: Robert Bruning, John Davies
Sitcom.
To help pay the bills, a crippled widow with a young son
takes in three male lodgers. Creator Lawrence later took
an acting role in the show.
With:-
ASHLEY GRENVILLE / TINA GRENVILLE / ANNA VOLSKA / ERIC
OLDFIELD / ROBERT BRUNING / HAROLD HOPKINS (later
replaced by MICHAEL LAWRENCE) / BRENDON LUNNEY
GO
FISH AUSTRALIA
ABC
/ 13x30m-e / 1987
Lifestyle.
John Meillon travels Australia looking at the best
fishing spots.
GOING
HOME
ABC
(Stuart Wagstaff's World Playhouse) / 1x55 minute episode / Broadcast
Thursday 5 May 1977 @ 9.00pm
Drama.
Miles faces up to a few home truths when he returns to his childhood
home for his 40th birthday.,
cast
TERRY DONOVAN as Miles / ROWENA WALLACE as Jacqueline / MARK CLARK as
Tom / JOSIE PORTER as Julia
GOING
HOME
SBS-McElroy
Television / 130x30m-e / 2000-2001
Creators/Executive
Producers: Di and Hal McElroy / Producer: Gillian Arnold / Directors:
Alan Coleman, Andrew Lewis
Daily
drama series. Stories of a group of nine commuters travelling home by
train each night, amazingly the show was written, filmed, edited and
then broadcast on the same day, the show also contained interactive
elements. Filmed at the Film Australia Studio's in Sydney Going
Home is the fastest made drama on TV, the actors are just given a
script outline and most of the dialogue is improvised, with much of
the dialogue centring around the days news.
With:-
JOHN GIBSON / ARTHUR ANGEL / CAMILLA AH KIN / DAVID CALLAN / BRIAN
MEEGAN / KHRISTINA TOTOS / JASON CHONG / LYN PIERSE / RHONDA DOYLE
GOLDEN
FIDDLES
9
Network-Wack0-South Australia Film Corporation / 2x120m-e / 1991
Writer: Sheila Sibley
/ Novel: Mary Grant Bruce / Camera: Ron Hagen / Design: George Liddle
/ Costume: Jean Turnbull-Mowlam / Producer: Stanley Walsh / Executive
Producer: Jock Blair, Wendy Wacko / Director: Claude Fournier
Period drama serial.
During the depressed 1930's the struggling farming family the Balfours
have thier lives changed when mother Anne inherits a fortune.
With:- KATE NELLIGAN
as Anne Balfour / JOHN BACH as Walter Balfour / RACHEL FRIEND as Kitty
Balfour / CAMRON DADDO as Norman Balfour / DAVID REYNE as Jack /
JUSTINE CLARKE as Liddy / PIPPA GRANDISON as Elsa Balfour / HAMISH
FLETCHER as Bob Balfour / DAVID WHITNEY as Adrian Treherne / CHARLES
MAYER as Philippe Allard / EDMUND PEGGE as Mr Craig / PENNE HACKFORTH-JONES
as Mrs Craig / MOUCHE PHILLIPS as Daphne / ADRIANA XENIDES as Estelle
/ CAROLINE WINNALL as Clara / EMMA FOWLER as Rose
GOLDEN
PENNIES
ABC-Revcom
/ 8x30m-e / 1985
Writer:
Graeme Farmer / Camera: Ian Warburton /
Producer/Director: Oscar Whitbread
Period
drama series. In the 1850's a family move to the
goldfield town of Jericho to try and make their fortune.
An Australia-France co-production.
With:-
CAROL DRINKWATER / BRYAN MARSHALL / GERARD KENNEDY /
FRANK WILSON / TIBI KAMAN / MICHAELA ABAY / JASON
DONOVAN / DAMON SANDERS / PAUL KARO
GOLDEN
SOAK
ABC-Portman-Westdeutsches
Werbfernsehen / 6x60m-e / 1979
Writer: Peter yeldham
/ Novel: Hammond Innes / Camera: Peter Hendry / esign: Laurie Johnson
/ Music: Peter Jones / Producers: Ray Alchin, James Gatward /
Executive Producers: Geoffrey Danuiels, James Gatward / Director:
Henri Safran
Drama serial. Mining
engineer Alec Hamilton (after getting into trouble back home in
England) journeys to Australia to try to start a new life, he quickly
becomes involved in the fortunes of an abandoned goldmine.
With:- RAY BARRETT as
Alec Hamilton / ELIZABETH ALEXANDER as Janet Garrety / CHRISTINA
KRUGER as Rosa / BILL HUNTER as Chris Culpin / HEINZ SCHIMMELPFENNIG
as Ed Garrety / GUNTHER UNGEHEUR as Kadek / DAVID CAMERON as Johnny /
RUTH CRACKNELL
THE
GONG SHOW
10
Network-McCabe-Collins Productions / x30m-e / 1976
Producers:
Lyle McCabe, John Collins
Bizarre
talent show in which the acts had to prove their worth
or face the indignity of being "gonged" off.
Cancelled after three weeks. Host was Tim Evans and the
format was American.
GOODBYE
MEAT PIE
Lifestyle
(Pay TV) / 3x30m-e / 2001
Director: Ian
Stevenson
A documentary reality
type show following a group of cooks taking part in the Australian
Regional Culinary Competition in Adelaide.
GOOD
GRIEF...IT'S THE TWILITERS
ABC /
8x30m-e / 1968 black and white
Mainly music based
(but with some comedy sketches added to the mix) variety show starring
folk group The Twiliters. The Twiliters were Jim Maguire, Kerry White
and Gregg Ferris.
GOOD
GUYS BAD GUYS
9
Network-Beyond-Simpson Le Mesurier / 1x120m-e
26x60m-e / 1997-98
Creator:
Roger Simpson / Producers: Roger Le Mesurier, Roger Simpson, Ros
Tatarka
Crime
drama series. Elvis Maginnis (an ex-cop from the wrong side of the
tracks) runs his own dry cleaning business but still finds himself
drawn into the shady side of life.
With:-
MARCUS GRAHAM as Elvis Maginnis / ALISON WHYTE as Stella Kinsella /
TRAVIS MCMAHON as Reuben Zeus
GOOD
MEDICINE
9
Network / x30m-e / 199?
Lifestyle
show offering advice on all things medical and hosted by Jennifer
Keyte, also featuring Dr Ric Gordon, Dr Caroline West and Mark
Ferguson.
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