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HALF A WORLD AWAY to HILL'S END - AUSTRALIAN TV
HALF A WORLD AWAY
ABC-Dimsey-Grigsby Pty-Australian Film Finance / 2x120m-e / 1991 (May)
Writer: Michael Brindley / Story: Ross Dimsey / Treatment: Peter Hepworth / Camera: Chris Davis / Design: Colin Gresch / Costume: Alexandra Tynan / Music: Peter Sullivan / Producers: Ross Dimsey, Howard Grigsby / Executive Producer: Penny Chapman, Elizabeth Matthews / Director: Marcus Cole
Period drama serial. In 1934 air ace Roscoe Turner sets up a race between London and Australian, among those taking part are the famed Amy Johnson, English Tom Campbell-Black as well as Ray Parer and Geoff Hemsworth.
With:- BARRY BOSTWICK as Roscoe Turner / ROBERT REYNOLDS as Tom Campbell-Black / CAROLINE GOODALL as Amy Johnson / HELEN SLATER as Jacquie Cochran / TIM HUGHES as Charles Scott / JONATHAN HYDE as Jim Mollison / HENK JOHANNES as Keone Parmentier / BURT COOPER as Jan Moll / GARY DAY as Ray Parer / JEFF TRUMAN as Geoff Hemsworth / JOSEPHINE BYRNES as Florence Desmond / ANTHONY HAWKINS as Thomas Perrin / JIM HOLT as Harold Brook
HAL LASHWOOD'S ALABAMA JUBILEE
ABC / x30m-e / 1958-61 black and white
Producers: Harry Pringle, James Upshaw, Peter Page
Also known as Hal Lashwood's Minstrel's (from 1960 anyway) this was a now distinctly un PC Black and White Minstrels type show featuring Syd Heylen, Jimmy Haine, Peggy Mortimer and the Jack Allen Swanee River Boys singing all the old Al Jolson classics and so on. Broadcast fortnightly.
Nine Network-Beyond-Simpson Le Mesurier-Australian Film Finance / 21x120m-e / 1997-2001
Creator: Roger Simpson / Script Editor: Jutta Goetze / Music: John Clifford White
Crime drama series. Cases of Forensic Psychiatrist Jane Halifax. Each season of the show usually consisted of four feature length movies. Nine were initially keen on developing the show into a weekly hour long one but later changed their minds.
With:- REBECCA GIBNEY as Jane Halifax / SHANE FEENEY-CONNOR as Ray / HUGH JACKMAN as Eric Ringer / SUSAN LYONS as Helen De Castro / CATHERINE WILKIN as Marion Walters (Jane's analyst) / BARRY LANGRISHE as Martin Ledger / MYLES COLLINS as Det Twomey / BRYAN MARSHALL as John Halifax (Jane's Father).
THE HAM FUNERAL
ABC / 1x120m-e / 1990
Play: Patrick White
Drana, A would be poet is given food for thought following the death of his landlady's husband. A from the stalls production by the Sydney Theatre Company at the Wharf Theatre.
With:- KERRY WALKER / MAX CULLEN / TYLER COPPINB / ROBYN NEVIN / MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK
HAMLET
ABC / 1x125m-e / 1959 black and white
Play: William Shakespeare / Producer/Director: Royston Morley
Shakespeare's intense drama about the Danish prince obsessed with the death of his father. ABC's first Shakespeare production.
With:- WILLIAM JOB / GEORGE STERLING / HENRY GILBERT / DELIA WILLIAMS
HAMLET
ABC / 1x150m-e / 1974 black and white
Producer: Alan Burke / Director: Julian Pringle
As above but this was a production by the Sydney National Theatre Company.
With:- JOHN BELL / JEFF ASHBY / ANNA VOLSKA / MAX CULLEN / JOHN PARAMOR / ROGER NEWCOMBE / KEN LAWRENCE
7 Network-Gary Reilly Productions / 13x30m-e / 1991
Writers: Gary Reilly, John Flanagan / Producer: Gary Reilly
Sitcom. Spin off from Hey Dad! in which the character of Betty moved to a new place living next door to a quartet of young people.
With:- JULIE McGREGOR / ADAM WILLITS / ROY BILLING / DANIELLE SPENCER / ROD ZUANIC / MAXINE KLIBINGATIS
THE HANDS OF CORMAC JOYCE
Fielder Cook / 1x90m-e / 1972
Writer: Thomas Rickman / Novel: Leonard Wibberly / Director: Fielder Cook
Drama. A small town off the coast of Ireland is harassed by a storm.
With:- STEPHEN BOYD / CYRIL CUSACK / COLLEEN DEWHURST / DOMINIC GUARD
HANDYMAN
ABC / 16x30m-e / 1976
Producer/Director: Keith Franklin
Home improvement show presented by painter and decorator Robin Johnson also on hand with gardening tips was Harold Caulfield.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
9 Network / 1x75m-e / Sunday 29 November 1970 / 7.30pm
A pre-Christmas musical special based on the writings of Hans Christian Anderson, well three of his stories, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Matchgirl and the Emperors New Clothes. The stellar cast included Patrick Wymark, Grant Seiden, John Fraser, Richard Deacon, Stuart Wagstaff, Carl Wellander, Morey Amsterdam, Bryan Davis, Patti McGrath, Josephine Jason, Davey Kaye and Rosie Sturgess.
HAPPENING
10 Network-Lewis Young Productions / x240m-e / 1970-72
Producer: Lesley Shaw
Saturday morning music and entertainment show (basically a continuation of Uptight) hosted by Ross D Wylie until 1971 and then Jeff Phillips. Regulars included Trevor Spry, Johnny Young, Molly Meldrum, Maggie Stewart and Megan Hicks. The show ended because of a dispute over the use of miming by the pop acts appearing.
THE HAPPY GANG See Sunnyside Up
HARD COPY
10 Network-Showboat Productions / x60m-e / 1991-94
Executive Producer: Peter Sutton
Scandal based current affairs type show presented from LA by Gordon Elliott and with local reporters Richard Willis, Renee Brack and Meni Caroutas also on hand.
A HARD DAY'S WEEK
7 Network / x30m-e / 1969 black and white
Producer: Ken Shadie / Music: Tommy Tycho
Basically this was an Aussie version of UK satire show That Was the Week That Was featuring merriment being made over the week's news, initially known as "News revue" before switching to this title. Regulars included Barry Creyton, June Salter, Sue Walker, Donald MacDonald and Willie Fennell.
THE HARP IN THE SOUTH see Ruth Park's Harp In The South
7 Network / 100+x30m-e / 1997 - continuing
Producer: Janine MacFarlane
Dr Harry Cooper gives people vetinary advice, travelling around different parts of Australia as he did so. Also assisting Harry was Katrina Warren. In Mid 2001 the show topped the ratings and it actually began as a segment within Burke's Backyard before becoming the show Talk to the Animals and then Harry's Practice. Harry's border collie Rosie (who sadly died in 2000) would feature on most shows.
THE HAUNTED SCHOOL
ABC-Revcom / 8x30m-e / 1986
Writer: Helen Cresswell / Story: Carol Drinkwater / Music: Garry McDonald, Laurie Stone / Camera: Peter Hendry / Producer: Ray Alchin / Director: Frank Arnold
Period drama series. In the 1860's an English Governess takes on the running of a scholl in a remote gold mining town.
With:- CAROL DRINKWATER / JAMES LAURIE / EMIL MINTY / BETH BUCHANAN / LEIGH NICHOLLS / VIC HAWKINS / MERVYN DRAKE / GRANT NAVIN
THE HAUNTING OF HEWIE DOWKER
10 Network-United Telecasters / 1x75m-e / 1976
Writer: Ian Coughlan / Producer: Roger Mirams / Director: Simon Wincer
Thriller. A Sydney cop uses his psychic powers to battle evil. Failed pilot.
With:- JOHN WATERS / KATE FITZPATRICK / DONALD MacDONALD / CAMILLA ROUNDTREE / CUL CULLEN / TIM ELLIOTT / TONY BARRY / RON HADRICK
HAVE A GO
7 Network / x30m-e / 1987
Producer/Director: Tony Neilson
A gong show take off talent show broadcast in the late afternoon/early evening slot and hosted by Jonathan Coleman and Ian Rogerson.
HAYDAZE
10 Network-Barron / 12x30m-e / 1990
Creators: John Rapsey, David Rapsey / Producers: Paul Barron, Roz Berrystone / Directors: David Rapsey, Chris Langman, Paul Moloney
Children's comedy drama series. Stories of two families living in a rural area on properties next door to each other. The twist being that one was a well to do city family trying to get in touch with nature.
With:- BARTHOLOMEW JOHN / DARREN KELLY / BRAYDEN WEST / DENISE VOSE
HEADLAND see full entry here.
HEADSTART
ABC / 40x45m-e /2001 (First Episode: Sunday March 4 at 6:10pm)
Executive Producer: Ben Gannon / Creator/Supervising Producer: Chris Roache / Producer: Michael Bourchier
Drama series. A one time high achiever in the corporate world looks after the fortunes of 7 disparate people who have been given $20,000 in order to go for their dreams.
With:- Freya Stefford as Basia Lem / David Hoflin as Patrick Gormley / Gareth Yuen as Loc Minh Vu / Garth Holcombe as Seth Wallace / Nadia Townsend as Clare Gormley / Blair Venn as Gareth Quinn / Megan Dorman as Katherine Ingram / Ryan Johnson as Kyle Richter
HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE
Ten Network / x30m-e / 1992
Travel, lifestyle (i.e: Cooking, Cars, DIY, money matters etc). Hosts included Jim Brown.
HEARTBREAK HIGH
Ten Network(1994-96)-ABC(1997-99)-Roy Barron / 210x50m-e / 1994-99
Creators / Executive Producers: Ben Gannon, Michael Jenkins
Drama series. Episodes in the lives of the students at Inner City Hartley High. Grew out of a stage play and film called The Heartbreak Kid.
With:- ALEX DIMITRIADES as Nick Poulos / CHRISTINA MILANO as Sarah Lambert / SALVATORE COCO as Con Bordino / KATHERINE HALLIDAY as Rosette Malouf / EMMA ROCHE as Danielle Miller / COREY PAGE as Steve Wiley / DORIS YOUNAME as Yola Fatoush / SCOTT MAJOR as Peter Rivers / ABI TUCKER as Jodie Cooper / TAI NGUYEN as Jack Tran / ISABELLA GUTIERREZ as Chaka Cardenes / TONY MARTIN as Bill Southgate / JAN ADELE as Ruby / NICO LATHOURIS as George Poulos
HEARTLINE
7 Network-Grundy / x60m-e / 1970 black and white
Producer: Bill Mason
An afternoon show in which Hayden Sargent attempted to help viewers with their problems.
HEART OF THE COUNTRY
ABC / 6x60m-e / 2001
Documentary series charting the new stars of the Aussie country scenes, the likes of Sara Storer and so on, with each edition looking at what inspires their music and different life landmarks.
HEAT
Barron / 1x95m-e / 1996
Executive Producer: Paul Barron / Producers: Paul Barron, Bill Hughes / Director: Scott Hartford Davis / Writer: Leon Saunders
Thriller. An idealistic solicitor heads to the bush after a disillusioning encounter with the legal system. In a small country town she witnesses an incident between police and two local Aborigines, and reluctantly becomes embroiled in a fight for justice.
With:- Claudia Karvan, John Moore, Sonia Todd, Martin Jacobs, Steve Bastoni, Jeremy Sims
HEDDA GABLER
Play: Ibsen / Producer/Director: William Sterling
Ibsen's classic drama about the life of a bored married woman who takes to desperate measures to break out of her confines.
With:- JUNE BRUNELL / RICHARD DAVIES / WYN ROBERTS / PATRICIA CONNOLLY / EDWARD HOWELL / MOIRA CARLETON
HEDGEROW HOUSE
ABC / 4x30m-e / 1970 black and white
Writer: Alastair Sharp / Novel: The Inside Hedge Story by Gillian Barnett / Producer: Ray Alchin / Director: Craig Collie
Children's drama serial. A pair of girls get involved in adventure after discovering a large deserted house.
With:- SALLY McLENNAN / LISETTE TAYLOR / SEAN GELL / BEN O'REILLY
HEMLINE
ABC / x30m-e / 1970 black and white
Producer: Patrick Armer
Women's daytime magazine show presented by Margaret Cody, Patrick Amer and Kate Baillieu.
HELPMANN
ABC / 1x45m-e / 1970
Documentary about ballet dancer Sir Robert Helpmann going behind the scenes to find out what keeps him on the move.
THE HENDERSON KIDS
10 Network-Crawford / 12x30m-e / 1985
Producers: Ewan Burnett, Alan Hardy / Music: Garry McDonald, Laurie Stone / Camera: Jamie Doolan
Children's adventure series. A pair of city teenagers have adventures when they go to stay in the country with their Uncle Ernie after the death of their mother. See also below for details of the sequel.
With:- Antoinette Byron / Diane Craig / Nicholas Eadie / Stewart Faichney / Nadine Garner as Tamara 'Tammy' Henderson / Tottie Goldsmith / Jane Hall as Regina Powell / Annie Jones as Sylvia Wheeler / Bradley Kilpatrick as Bradley 'Brains' Buchanan / Ben Mendelsohn / Kylie Minogue as Charlotte Kernow / Peter O'Brien /Paul Smith as Steve Henderson / Peter Whitford
THE HENDERSON KIDS II
10 Network-Crawford /12x30m-e / 1987
Directors:
Chris Langman, Paul Moloney / Music: Garry McDonald, Laurie Stone
Children's adventure series. Sequel to the above (minus Nicholas Eadie)
with the kids readjusting to city life. See also above for details of the first
series.
With:- Nadine Garner as Tamara 'Tam' Henderson / Paul Smith as Steve Henderson / Alex Papps as Vinnie Cerantonio / Bradley Kilpatrick as Brains Buchanan / Anita Cerdic as Carol Summers / Nathan Croft as Marty Summers / Marieke Hardy as Sally Marshall / Louise Howitt as Helen Marshall / Michael Aitkens as Walter Mullens
HERE'S DAWN
9 Network / 56x30m-e / 1964-65 black and white
Writer: Dick Berry / Producers: Bobby Limb, Hayes Gordon, Bill Harmon / Director: Peter Bernados
Comedy, variety sketch show headlined by Dawn Lake (here minus husband Bobby Limb who took on the role of producer for this), also featured were Noel Brophy, Frank Ward, Bruce Henries and Judi Farr.
HERE'S HUMPHREY
9 Network / x30m-e / 1965-continuing
Creator: Roman Ukleja
Began on local tv in Adelaide Here's Humphrey is almost a national institution, a show for kids featuring a bowler hatted bear taking part in activities and games with young children. The show won Logies in 1970 and 1982.
THE HEROES
Network 10-TVS Films Prod / 4x60m-e / 1989
Writer: Peter Yeldham / Book: Ronald McKie / Camera: Paul Murphy / Design: Bernard Hides / Costume: David Rowe / Music: Peter Best / Producer: Anthony Buckley / Executive Producers: Graham Benson, Valerie Hardy / Director: Donald Crombie
Wartime drama serial. During world war II 14 young soldiers take part in Operation Jaywick, an attempt to hurt Japanese ships in Singapore. See also below for the sequel Heroes II.
With:- PAUL RHYS as Ivan Lyon / JOHN BACH as Donald Davidson / JOHN HARGREAVES as Ted Carse / BILL KERR as Paddy McDowell / CHRISTOPHER MORSLEY as Bob Page / TIM ROBERTSON as Colonel Mott / JOHN EWART as Bill Reynolds / TIMOTHY LYN as 'Taffy' Morris / JASON DONOVAN as 'Happy' Huston / CAMERON DADDO as 'Joe' Jones / JEFF TRUMAN as 'Cobber' Cain / BRIONY BEHETS as Alice / GUS MERCURIO as Captain Hawes
HEROES II: The Return
10 Network-Telso / 4x60m-e / 1992
Writer: Peter Yeldham / Camera: Roger Dowling / Design: Bernard Hides / Costume: Graham Purcell / Music: Peter Best / Producer: Anthony Buckley / Executive Producer: Graham Benson / Director: Donald Crombie
Wartime drama. Sequel to Heroes. The platoon from the first serial (see above) attempt another raid on Japanese ships in Singapore harbour (in 1945) this time called Operation Rimau.
With:- NATHANIEL PARKER as Lyon / CHRISTOPHER MORSLEY as Bob Page / JOHN BACH as Davidson / IAN BOLT as Ross / MARK LEWIS JONES as Ingelton / KEN TERAIZUMI as Furuta / CRAIG McLACHLAN as Carey / ANNE LOUISE LAMBERT as Nancy / MIRANDA OTTO as Roma Page / SIMON BURKE as Ellis / BRETT PARTRIDGE / KELLY DINGWALL / BRENDON LUNNEY
HEROES' MOUNTAIN
Ten Network-Columbia Tristar-Anthony Buckley Films / 1x120m-e / 2002
Book: Survivor by Stuart Diver and Simon Bouda / Director: Peter Andrikidis
Drama based on the true story of the Thredbo distaster on 30 July 1997 when a landslide enveloped two ski cabins killing 18 people and leaving only one survivor, Stuart Diver. The show focused on both the before and after with the rescue operation and so on. Filmed in a quarry in Sydney.
With:- CRAIG McLACHLAN as Stuart Diver / TOM LONG / ANTHONY HAYES / NADINE GARNER / TIRIEL MORA
L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE
ABC / 1x55m-e / 1970 (Broadcast: Friday 20 March / 9.10pm)
Opera. A flirtatious watchmaker's wife uses two Grandfather clocks and the services of a muleteer to smuggle her two lovers into her room then decides she prefers the muleteer.
With:- JOAN DARGAVEL / KEITH NEILSON / GINO ZANCARNARO / VICTOR FRANKLIN

Gary Reilly Productions / x30m-e / 1984-94
Producer: Gary Reilly / Directors: Sally Brady, Robert Meillon
Archetypal suburban sitcom about the life of a widowed architect and his family (as well as his crazy secretary). A very popular show but the only cast member to stay the distance though was Julie McGregor. See also the spin off Hampton Court.
With:- ROBERT HUGHES as Martin Kelly / MARK OWEN-TAYLOR as Greg Russell / JULIE McGREGOR as Betty Wilson / BELINDA EMMETT as Tracy Russell / PAUL SMITH as Simon Kelly (1) / CHRISTOPHER MAYER as Simon Kelly (2) / SIMONE BUCHANAN as Debbie Kelly / SARAH MONAHAN as Jennifer Kelly (1984-93) / ANGELA KEEP as Jennifer Kelly (93-94) / CHRISTOPHER TRUSWELL as Nudge / BETH BUCHANAN as Elaine Kelly
9 Network-Somers Carroll / x120m-e / 1971-99 (9 October 71 - 21 November 99)
A long running staple of Australian TV, Hey Hey started out as a Saturday morning kids show it later graduated to a 6.30pm two hour slot. The show was presented throughout its run by Daryl Somers, Daryl was assisted by pink puppet Ozzie Ostrich (Ernie Carroll) from 1971-1994. The show was a mixture of comedy, chat, sketches etc, there were regular appearances by DJ Ian 'Molly' Meldrum (from 1980 onwards) looking at the music scene in his own idiosyncratic way. The show garnered "8 best of" specials and one of the shows most popular characters was a 6 foot tall duck and a head-on-a-stick Dicky Knee. Regulars throughout the shows run included Jacqui McDonald, Red Symons, Wilbur Wilde, Russell Gilbert, Andrew Fyfe, Livinia Nixon, Jo-beth Taylor, Trevor Marmalade, Denise Drysdale, 'Plucka Duck', Des "Animal" McKenna, Gavin Wood, Peter McKenna. Character voices were provided off screen by John Blackman (1972-1999). regular segments such as the long running Red Faces. This 'talent' contest spawned 8 high rating "Best Of" specials under the title Best and Worst of Red Faces. Other specials to emerge from the show include 4x60 minuters called Hey Hey By Request (these emerged between 1993 and 1998) and Hey Hey It's The Comedians, a pair of hour long compilations featuring the best of the stand up material from the show. Hey Hey was a show that was known as being a place where anything could happen and was uniquely Australian. Everybody who is anybody (from Madonna, Abba, Clint Eastwood, The Harlem Globetrotters etc) appeared as guests on the show. thanks to Barry Bits for his contribution to this entry.
HEY YOU
10 Network-ATV / 17x30m-e / 1967 (First Episode: 12 August)
Executive Producer: Brian Wright / Producer/Director: Godfrey Phillips
Sitcom
concerning the exploits of a mismatched pair, one English and one
Australian, who lodged together in a boarding
house.
With:- ERNIE BOURNE / COLIN McEWAN / SU ISRAEL / MARGARET REID
HI-FIVE
A Kids Like Us/Nine Films and Television Production / x30m-e / 1999-continuing
Executive Producer: Kris Noble / Producer: Helena Harris / Director: Ian Munro
Children's entertainment series, presented by the all-singing, all-dancing Kathleen de Leon, Tim Harding, Charli Robinson, Nathan Foley and Kellie Hoggart. Music, games and puppet characters all feature, and a lively studio audience of children join in the specially composed songs and dances. An overriding theme united each week’s programmes.
HIGH FLYERS
10 Network-Southern Star / 52x30m-e / 1998-99
Creator: David Olgilvy / Executive Producer: Noel Price
Children's adventure series. Exploits of a group of kids involved in a circus.
With:- BARTHOLOMEW NASH as Trevor / ALIN ABELLA as Kyet Nguyen / KATY BRINSON as Sarah / DENISE BRISKIN as Tay / CHRISTOPHER BROWN as Steve / BRANDON BURNS as Bert / JADE BUTLER as Julianna 'Jules' Price / ZANE ELVIS DE COUVEY as Mitchell 'Mitch' Price / SERGE DE NARDO as Pablo / JANE HALL as Caz
HIGH ROLLERS
7 Network-Grundy Organisation / x30m-e / 1975
Producer: Andrew Brooke
A casino type game show based ona US original of the same name. The contestants rolled Dice to try and come up with certain combinations that would enable them to remove numbers from a board, leading to prizes. Hosted by Garry Meadows and Delvine Delaney (later replaced by Suzanne Fox just before the show's end).
HILL'S END
Revcom Prod Pty Ltd / 6x30m-e / 1989 (First Episode: 3rd April)
Writer: Noel Robinson / Camera: Danny Batterham / Design: Brian Thomson / Producer: Noel Price / Executive Producer: Geoffrey Daniels / Director: Di Drew
Period children's drama series. In a small Australian farming town during the 1950's a septet of kids get caught up in a mystery surrounding a cave containing ancient aboriginal art, but whilst on an expedition to the cave with their teacher they get caught in a storm. The serial had high production values and a budget of $2.6 million.
With:- MADGE RYAN / JOHN NOBLE / MAREE D'ARCY / CLAYTON WILLIAMSON / JASON DEGIORGIO / EMMA FOWLER / KATHERINE CULLEN / CAITLIN PROCTOR
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