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An indepth guide to pretty much every Australian show ever seen on TV, all entries include cast and crew details as well as running times, plot details, when it was on, what it was about and more besides. Simply click on the links below to access the information. 

K - KABOODLE TO KYLIE: On a Night Like This
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KABOODLE

ABC-ACTF / 19x30m-e / 1987 and 1990

Series Producer: Jeff Peck / Executive Producer: Patricia Edgar

Anthology series of children's stories mixing both live action episodes with animation, cgi and so on. Those taking part in the live action stories included Paul Chubb (in The Steam Train Crew), Angry Anderson (in Scuff the Sock), Kym Gyngell (in Snow Whhite and the Dreadful Dwarves) and Alan Fletcher (in Marty Moves to the Country).

 

KAIN

ABC-BBC / 1x90m-e / 1967 black and white

Writer: Alan Poolman / Camera: Frank Parnell / Producer/Director: Lionel Harris

Drama. A Co-Production with the UK (the first between the ABC and BBC). Two brothers argue over the paternity of an Aboriginal servant girl's baby. Based on Cain and Abel and filmed at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

With:- KEITH MICHELL / J.G. DEVLIN / AUDINE LEITH / ALAN WHITE / CANDY DEVINE / TEDDY PLUMMER 

 

KAMAHL

ABC / 20x30m-e / 1971-72

Producers: James Davern (season one), Jon Ewing (season two)

Variety series starring the silky voiced Sri Lankan one Kamahl. Regulars included Julie Felix, Brian May and the ABC show band.

 

KANGAROO PALACE

7 Network-Artist Services Pty Ltd-Primetime-Film Victoria-T.E.A.M / 2x120m-e / 1997

Writers: Deborah Cox, Andrew Knight / Camera: Kim Batterham / Theme Music: Tim Finn / Performed by Davy Spillane / Script Editor: John Alsop / Costume: Jeanie Cameron / Producer: Ewan Burnett / Executive Producers: Rebecca Gibney, Andrew Knight, Steve Vizard / Director: Robert Marchand

Period drama serial. At the height of the swinging sixties a group of Aussie twenty somethings spend time in London.

With:- JACQUELINE McKENZIE as Catherine Macaleese / JOHN POLSON as Richard Turner / REBECCA GIBNEY as Heather Randall / JEREMY SIMS as Jack Gill / JONATHAN FIRTH as Terence Foster-Burrowes / JERMOE EHLERS as Simon Seymour / JOSEPHINE BYRNES as Ann / ALISON WHYTE as Barbara / JANE ALLSOP as Cecily / KATIE CARR as Linda / BRIDIE CARTER as Diane / KIM GYNGELL as Spider / MATTHEW QUARTERMAINE as Macka / GEOFF PAINE as Keith / TIM ROBERTSON as Charles Reed

 

KATE AND JULIA

Foxtel Arena (Pay TV) / x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Wednesday 8 August / 7.00pm)

Entertainment show featuring comedy, chat, gossip and guest interviews (including the likes of Steve Bisley and Lochie Daddo). Hosted by Kate Smith and Julia Zemiro.

 

KATE CEBERANO AND FRIENDS

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1994

Producer: Larry Meltzer

Mix of music and chat starring the singer of the title. Kate's friends included Debbie Byrne, Deborah Conway, Mary Coustas, Angie Hart, jane Kennedy, Jon Stevens and Nargaret Urlich.

 

KATE FISCHER'S THE MYTH OF THE PERFECT WOMAN

Ten Network / 1x60m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: Tuesday 31 July / 8.30pm)

Comedy documentary in which former model turned actress Kate Fischer took a look at women and how they perceive their own body image. There were contributions from newsreader Tracey Spicer, musician Cheyne Coates, sportswoman Lauren Burns, the Sydney Swans and Kate's mum Pru Goward.

 

KATH AND KIM

ABC / 18x30m-e / 2001-2002

Sitcom spun off of characters featured in the sketch show Big Girl's Blouse. Kath is a fortysomething empty nester who is very proud of her home and how she looks. Kim is her spoilt twentysomething daughter. With Kath's new fiancé Kel, Kim's estranged husband Brett and her second best friend Sharon, they love to make mountains out of molehills and sows ears out of silk purses. The show followed on from Big Girl’s Blouse in which Kim got married, in this she has separated from her husband after 2 months and Kath has got a love interest in the form of fiancée Kel.

With:- GINA RILEY as Kath/ JANE TURNER as Kim  /GLENN ROBINS as Kel

 

THE KEEPERS

ABC / 9x50m-e / 1984

Writers: John Reeves, Ian McFadyen, Catherine Millar / Music: Greg Sneddon / Producer: Noel Price

Drama series. Exploits of a pair of officers working for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department. Filmed in the Dandenongs.

With:- BILL HUNTER / DAVID CAMERON / CATHERINE WILKIN / VIKKI BLANCHE / TERRY GILL / NINA LANDIS

 

KEEP PACE WITH HARRIET

10 Network / x60m-e / 1977

Daytime variety show that starred Johnny and Harriet Pace.

 

KELLY

Westbridge Productions Pty / 26x30m-e / 1990-91

Executive Producer: Jonathan M. Schiff

Drama series. German shepherd dog Kelly (who has recently retired from the police force and now lives with the Patterson family) finds himself caught in various adventures in the town of Fern Cove.

With:- CHARMAINE GORMAN as Jo Patterson / ANTHONY HAWKINS as Mike Patterson / MATTHEW KETTERINGHAM as Chris Patterson / AILSA PIPER as Maggie Patterson / GIL TUCKER as Frank Patterson / JOSEPH SPANO as Brian Horton / ALEXANDER KEMP as Danny Foster / KATY BRINSON as Dr Robyn Foster

 

KEN AND JONATHAN

7 Network / x60m-e / 1964 black and white

Afternoon pair of quiz shows, Name That Tune and Who Do You Trust presented by US comics Ken Delo and Jonathan Daly.

 

THE KEVIN DENNIS AUDITIONS See New Faces

 

KEYNOTES

9 Network / x30m-e / 1964 black and white

Music show based on the old Name That Tune formula with the contestants having to guess the tune after hearing only a few 'keynotes'. Hosted by Alistair McHarg. The show was revived by 9 from 1992-93 (in association with Grundy), host was Richard Wilkins.

 

KICKING AROUND

ABC-Barron / 12x25m-e / 1982

Writer: Joan Ambrose / Music: Greg Schultz / Producer: Paul Barron / Director: David Rapsey

Children's comedy drama series. Stories of a trio of soccer loving immigrant kids (an italian, a yugoslav and an Anglo Australian).

With:- BERNIE DAVIS / AILSA PIPER / ALAN CASSELL / BARRIE BARKLA

 

KILLER NET

9 Network-C4-Lynda La Plante/4x60m-e / 1998

Writer/Producer: Lynda La Plante / Director: Geoffrey Sax 

Thriller serial. A young student meets a woman via the internet and soon finds himself caught up in a deadly mix of sex and murder. A UK-Australia co-production. 

With:- TAM WILLIAMS as Scott Miller / PAUL BETTANY as Joe Hunter / EMILY WOOF as Susie / CATHY BROLLY as Charlotte / SIMON MEACOCK as Scruffy / JASON ORANGE as DJ Brent / GARETH MARKS as Dome

 

THE KING

TV1-Fremantle-9 Network-Crackerjack Productions / 1x120 minute episode / 2007 (broadcast 20 May on TV1 and 27 August on the 9 Network)

Writers: Jaime Browne, Kris Mrksa / Producer: Jason Stephens / Production Design: Paddy Reardon / Costume Design: Sandi Cichello / Music: Bryony Marks / Cinematography: Leilani Hannah / Producer: Jason Stephens / Director: Matthew Saville

“..I wouldn’t call myself a comedian and yet I can hear a million people say, say that again…I can communicate sometimes amusingly, I think that’s my field” – Graham Kennedy

Period drama. The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise and rise, from working class Balaclava kid through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. But against this backdrop of professional success it also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s. But The King is not just about a man - it's also the story of the birth of television, a cultural phenomenon that has helped define a nation and make us who we are today.

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STEPHEN CURRY as Graham Kennedy / LOUIS CORBETT as Graham as a boy / MONICA MAUGHAN as Nanna Scott / SHAUN MICALLEF as Colin Bednall / GARRY McDONALD as Nicky Whita / STEPHEN HALL as Bert Newton / STEVE BISLEY as Harry M Miller / JANE ALLSOP as Noeline Brown / BERNARD CURRY as John Wesley / BETH BUCHANAN as Val Wesley / ANGUS SAMPSON as Ugly Dave Gray / CATHY GODBOLD as Rosemary Margan / LAVERNE McDONNELL as Graham's Mum / TOM WRIGHT as Alfie Boy / KATE DOHERTY as Princess Panda / LEO TAYLOR as Sir Frank Packer / BEAU BRADY as Tim / DONAL FORDE as Geoff "Corkie" Corke / ROZ HAMMOND as Kathleen Whitta / NICK FARNELL as Norm Spencer / TODD McDONALD as Richard Croft

 

KINGS

9 Network-PBL / 19x60m-e / 1983

Writers: David Boutland, Michael Brindley / Music: Trevor White / Producers: Stanley Walsh, Ian Bradley

Drama series about the King family who run a Sydney based panel beating business. Based on the UK show Fox. Cancelled after five episodes.

With:- ED DEVEREAUX / DENNIS GROSVENOR / MELISSA JAFFER / MAX CULLEN / SCOTT BURGESS / SIMON BURKE / ARKIE WHITELEY / KIM KREJUS / DEBORRA-LEE FURNESS / TERENCE COOPER / ARNA-MARIA WINCHESTER

 

KINGS IN GRASS CASTLES

 

7 Network-Screen West-Barron-RTE-BBC Northern Ireland-Crannog / 2x120m-e / 1998

Writer: Tony Morphett based on a script by John Goldsmith / Book: Dame Mary Durack /  Director: John Woods / Music: Shaun Davey / Costume: Louise Wakefield / Executive Producers: Paul D. Barron, Madeleine Warburg, John Peters / Design: Larry Eastwood / Camera: Roger Langer

Period drama serial. In the 19th century Irish family the Duracks attempt to start a new life down under with Patsy Durack finding himself becoming concerned with the plight of the Aborigines.     

With:- STEPHEN DILLANE as Patsy Durack / DAVID NGOOMBUJARRA as Burrakin / FIONNULA FLANAGAN as Bridget Durack / ESSIE DAVIS as Mary Durack / JAMES FOX as Mr Longman / SUSAN LYNCH as Sarah / DES McALEER as Michael / MAGGIE STEED as Mrs Costello / CHRIS HALLAM as Keaton

 

KING'S KITCHEN

9 Network-King Quinn / x30m-e / 1972 and 1974-81

Cookery show hosted by the very flambouyant Bernard King. Also know as the Bernard King Show. From itsd 1974 run the show was actually seen on the Ten Network but not always fully networked, often ion just different regional areas.

 

KING'S MEN

 

9 Network-Grundy / 13x60m-e / 1976

Writers: Robert Caswell, Ron McLean / Executive Producer: Reg Watson

Crime drama series. Stories of a Kings Cross police station where an old fashioned Inspector tries to cope with the ways of his younger more streetwise officers.

With:- DON BARKHAM as Senior Detective Hal Whelan / TINA BURSILL as Policewoman Jaybee Giddings / GORDON GLENWRIGHT as Inspector Harry King / BILL HUNTER / TOM OLIVER Detective Sergeant Frank Weston / DON SPENCER as Senior Detective Tim Harper

 

KINGSWOOD COUNTRY

7 Network-RS Productions / 89x30m-e / 1980-84

Creators/Producers: Tony Sattler, Gary Reilly / Music: Mike Perjanik

"Not the Kingswood!" 
Sitcom. Vaguely based on the UK classic Til Death Us Do Part, the sixties show about a working class bigot by the name of Alf Garnett Kingswood Country sees Ted Bullpit as a working class bigot who loved his Holden Kingswood more than his wife Thelma. Bullpit is a true ocker, if you're not related to someone like Ted then you certainly know someone who is. 
Ted's idea of heaven is sitting in front of the box, thinking about his Kingswood and lamenting about the lack of success of his racing greyhounds. 

However what Ted mostly gets is his idea of Hell; His feminist daughter Greta is married to Bruno, second generation Italian immigrant (or the "bloody wog" as Ted likes to refer to him, whilst his son Craig is a sex mad medical student, Ted is also put out everytime his wealthier sister-in-law Merle comes to visit. 
Although an out and out hilarious sitcom Kingswood Country actually works well as a glimpse into a time of change for Australia when multiculturalism and reform of all kinds, of course Ted steadfastly refuses to adapt to any of this. Towards the end of the shows run Ted's wife had had enough and left him to go on an extended world cruise, never to return, Bruno's mum Rosa ended up moving in to look after Ted. By the time the series ended the Holden Kingswood was no longer in production so Ted traded his in for the new family car the Holden Commodore. Based on a character first seen in "The Naked Vicar Show".

With:- ROSS HIGGINS as Ted Bullpit/ JUDI FARR (1979-82) as Thelma Bullpit / LES MARINOS as Bruno/ LAUREL McGOWEN as Greta/ PETER FISHER as Craig / SHEILA KENNELLY as Rosa (1982-84)

 

KIRBY'S COMPANY

ABC / 19x50m-e / 1977

Creators: Colin Free, John Martin / Music: Bob Barnard / Producer: John Martin

Drama series. Three generations of the same family run their own building company in Balmain, Sydney.

With:- WILLIE FENNELL / MARGARET CRUICKSHANK / KEN BLACKBURN / TED OGDEN / PETER DE-SALLIS / VINCE MARTIN / MARGARET NELSON / OLIVIA BROWN / LOUISE HOWITT / TOM BURLINSON

 

KITTSON/FAHEY

ABC / 14x30m-e / 1992-93

Producer: Ted Robinson

Comedy sketch show series looking at the world through the eyes of women. Starring Jean Kittson and Maryanne Fahey.

 

KOMMOTION

ATV-0-Willard King / x30m-e / 1965-67

Creator: David Joseph / Producers: David Joseph, Al Maricic

Daily pop music show from Melbourne and hosted by Ken Sparkes. The acts all mimed.

 

THE KRYPTON FACTOR

ABC / x30m-e / 1987

A cerebral and action based quiz in which four contestants competed against each other in a variety of rounds including a tough army assault course and a general knowledge round as well as other more mind bending type rounds. The competitors came from both Australia and New Zealand. Hosted by Dougal Stevenson.

 

KYLIE: On A Night Like This

9 Network / 1x120m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: Tuesday 22 May / 7.30pm)

A performance by Kylie Minogue (performing all her greatest hits) from one of the Australian dates of her around the world tour.

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