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MAC AND MERLE

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1974 Black+White

Writer: Ray Biehler

Comedy series about the eccentricities of an elderly couple.

With:- Gordon Chater / Gwen Plumb

MACARTHUR'S DREAM

Channel 7 / 1x60m-e / 2001 (Monday 1 January 7.30pm)

Writer and Director - ALAN LINDSAY / Producer - MARK GEREMIA / Associate Producers - DARREN NEILSON/TODD FELLMAN / Director of Photography - ROD POLLARD / Editor - ROSIE JONES / Production Manager & Archive research - HELEN CLUCAS / Sound Recordist - MARTIN KIER / Music - JANINE DE LORENZO/AL MULLINS/RIDGIDIGITAL MUSIC

Entertaining documentary documentary on the Wool Industry in Australia, from it's dream of the early pioneer Macarthur to the billion dollar export industry that it is in Australia today. The production was narrated by Jack Thompson and featured a large amount of archive footage.

MACBETH

ABC /1x90m-e / 1960 Black+White

Producer/Writer: William Sterling / Music: Robert Hughes

Shakespeare's tragedy known as the notorious Scottish Play about the power mad Macbeth.

With:- Ken Goodlet / Dinah Shearing / Douglas Kelly / Rodney Milgate / Mark Kelly / Wyn Roberts / Keith Eden / Chris Hill.

MACBETH

ABC / 1x90m-e / 1965 Black and white

Producer/Director: Alan Burke / Music: Robert Hughes

Remake of the above.

With:- Wyn Roberts / Terri Aldred / Michael Duffield / Keith Eden / Keith Lee / Mark Albiston.

MACBETH IN CAMERA

ABC / 1x140m-e / 1964 balck and white

Producer/Director: Ken Hannam / Writer: Harold Lang

Strange drama in which the director the play Macbeth gets involved in an argument with his cast. Based on a real incident.

With:- Harold Lang, Nicholas Amer, Grneville Hallam, Lome Cossette

THE MAESTRO'S COMPANY

SBS-Independant Prod. / 13x30m-e / 1985 (First Episode Broadcast: 13 January)

Creator: Marcia Hatfield / Producer: Jim George / Executive Producer: Richard Davis / Director: William Fitzwater

Children's musical puppet series designed to introduce kids to opera, the setting was a run down opera house (the Bijou Theatre in Balmain) in which a bunch of puppet opera singers performed from the classics like Carmen and Aida. The puppets only audience was two children.

With:- JUSTINE CLARKE / ADAM WILLITS / ROSS BROWNING / ALAN HIGHFIELD / BEN FRANKLIN / PETER SEABORN / JANET ASHELFORD

McMANUS MPB

10 Network-Cash Harmon Productions / 1x90m-e / 1976

Writer: Robert Caswell

Thriller. McManus from the Missing Person's Bureau investigates when the duaghter of the Russian Consul disappears. A failed pilot.

With:- Peter Sumner, Arna-Maria Winchester, Peter Gwynne, Chantal Contouri, Serge Lazareff, Alfred Sandor, John Benton, Pamela Stephenson.

MAGAZINE

SBS / x60m-e / 1985

Mix of variety, entertainment, interviews and current affairs hosted by Mary-Ann Fernandes.

MAGGIE

7 Network / x25m-e / 1969-70 black and white

Producer: Scott Mitchell

Talk show with Maggie Tabberer shown daily during the afternoons. Maggie won the 1970 Logie Award as television's most popular female personality.

MAGGIE@HOME WITH....

fx-Foxtel (Pay TV) / 8x60m-e / 2001

Lifestyle/chat show in which Maggie Tabberer visits the homes of well known Australians to talk to them about their life and work.

THE MAGIC BOOMERANG

ABC-Pacific-Fremantle / 39x30m-e / 1965 (First Episode 21 March) black and white

Writers: John Abbott, Chris Dale, Mary Wilton / Producer: Roger Mirams / Director: Joe McCormick

Children's adventure series about a boy (The sheep farmers son Tom Tumbleton) who discovers a magic boomerang with which he has fun and games.

With:- TELFORD JACKSON / RODNEY PEARLMAN / DAVID MORGAN / PENNY SHELTON

THE MAGIC OF MUSIC

ABC / x30m-e / 1961-74 black and white

Producers: Peter Page, Georges Trevare

Popular light entertainment show focusing on light orchestral music. Hosts were Denis Quilley (1967), Ron Maconaghie (68), Bruce Barry (69), James Smillie (71) and Eric Jupp.

THE MAGISTRATE

ABC-Warner-Dalton-TVS-Releitalic Spa / 6x60m-e / 1989 15-17 November

Writer: Chris Warner / Camera: Chris Davis / Design: Max Nicolson / Costume: Alexandra Tynan / Music: Peter Sullivan / Producers: Kim Dalton, Chris Warner / Executive Producers: Graham Benson, Ross Dimsey,Patricia de Crescenzo / Director: Kathy Mueller

Crime drama serial. Italian magistrate Paolo Pizzi goes on a one man crusade to catch the people who killed his wife and kidnapped his son. An Australia-Italy co-production.

With:- FRANCO NERO as Paolo Pizzi / CATHERINE WILKIN as Claire Boyd / DENNIS MILLER as Roger Davies / JULIA BLAKE as Jean Shaw / STEVE BASTONI as Robbie Shaw / VICTORIA ROWLAND as Nicole Davidson / JOE PETRUZZI as Leonardo Pizzi/ PAUL SONKKILA as Hannaford / ANDY ANDERSON as Tony / CAROLINE GILMER as Sandy / STEVE JACOBS as Wetherby / DAVID BRADSHAW as Bernice

THE MAIN EVENT

7 Network-Leisuretime Media / x60m-e / 1990-92

Creator: Craig Johnston / Producer: Lyle McCabe

Bizarre game show which featured a panel of celebrities playing for teams who were watching at home. As strange as it sounds and hosted by Larry Emdur. Creator Johnston is better known as a soccer player.

MAKE OURS MUSIC

ABC / x60m-e / 1958-61 black and white

Producer/Director: James Upshaw

Variety/light entertainment with the emphasis on music. The regulars included Ricki Merriman (who acted as host) Babs Mackinnon, Ted Hamilton, Frank Ifield, Pat Monroe and from 1960 Colin Croft (who took over as host).

MAKING IT TOGETHER

10 Network-East Coast Films / 10x30m-e / 1978

Producer: Paul Swain / Director: Tony Bonner

Documentary. A series of programs looking at the roles of people working in Australian themed jobs both here and overseas.

MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1966 black and white

Debate show looking at management practices in Australia. Hosted by Diana Ward.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

ABC / 1x100m-e / 1964 black and white

Writer: Noel Robinson / Play: Robert Bolt / Producer/Director: William Sterling

Period drama. Sir Thomas More is caught in the middle when Henry VIII falls in love with Anne Boleyn.

With:- JOHN GRAY / WYN ROBERTS / NEIL CURNOW / HUGH STEWART / TERRI ALDRED / FAY KELTON / DOUGLAS KELLY / TERRY NORRIS

MAN IN QUESTION

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1974 black and white

A series of programs in which six eminent men discussed man's place in the universe. The six were scientist Gus Nossa, businessman J.D. Elliott, painter Leonard French, actor John Bell, politicians Jim Cairns and Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

MAN O MAN

7 Network-Grundy / x60m-e / 1994

Producer: Paul Fraser

Strange game show based ona German original in which (through a series of challenges) a group of women weeded out the weaklings to pick their "man o man" (those knocked out were unceremonmiously pushed into a swimming pool). Host was Rob Guest.

MAN ON THE RIM

ABC / 11x55m-e / 1989

Writers: Dr Alan Thorne, Robert Raymond / Music: Peter Best / Camera: Peter De Vries / Producer: Anthony Buckley / Directors: John Oakley, Robert Raymond

Documentary. Series of programs focusing on the people living in the Pacific Basin region. Presented by Dr Alan Thorne.

THE MAN WHO SHOT THE ALBATROSS

ABC / 1x115m-e / 1972 black and white

Writer: Ray Lawler / Producer: Oscar Whitbread / Director: David Zweck

Period drama. A Melbouorne Theatre Company Production. The story of how Governor William Bligh attempted, during the 19th century, to stop the rum trade.

With:- LEO McKERN / MICHAEL AITKENS / JOHN EWART / GARY DAY / PETER NORTON / JOHN ORCSIK / FRANK THRING / SIMON CHILVERS / PATRICIA KENNEDY / MALCOLM PHILLIPS

THE MANY FACES OF WARREN MITCHELL

9 Network / 2x30m-e / 1970

Writer: Johnny Speight

A pair of comedy specials (1. Tuesday 13 October at 8.00pm / 2. Wednesday 25 November at 7.30pm) recorded in Melbourne and starring actor Warren Mitchell in a series of sketches, his special guest in both shows was Rod Hull.

MARCIA'S MUSIC

ABC / 12x50m-e / 1978-79

Producer: Ric Burch / Directors: Paul Drane, Robert Guillemont, Vas Kontis

Variety, light entertainment show starring Marcia Hines. Choreography was by Robyn Moase.

MARION

ABC / 4x60m-e / 1974 March-April

Writer: Cliff Green / Design: Laurie Johnson / Music: George Dreyfus / Producer: Oscar Whitbread / Directors: Oscar Whitbread, David Zweck, Keith Wilkes, Douglas Sharp

Period drama serial. During World War II Marion Richards goes to be a schoolteacher in rural Victoria, overcoming initial hostility she then falls in love with an Italian P.O.W.

With:- HELEN MORSE as Marion Richards / PETER AANENSEN / APUL PETRIE / WAYNE LATIMER / TONY BONNER / MARTIN FIELDS / KATHY BECK / TERRY McDERMOTT / ELSPETH BALLANTYNE / KERRY ARMSTRONG / JOHN CLAYTON / GRAEME BLUNDELL

MARQUE:100 Years of Motoring

ABC / 10x30m-e / 1979

Executive Producer: Bryan Adams / Producer/Director: Andrew Lloyd Williams

Documentary series looking at the history of the motor car. Presented by Peter Wherrett.

MARRIAGE ACTS

ABC / 1x120m-e / 2000 (Broadcast: Sunday 22 October / 8.30pm)

Writer: Anne Brooksbank / Director: Rob Marchand

Drama. Judge David McKinnon has a life turned upside down when a vengeful bomber makes him question the justice he has dispensed and his family life unravels around him.

With:- Colin Friels as David McKinnon / Sonia Todd Jean McKinnon /David Whitney / Linden Wilkinson / Annalise Phillips as Anna / Laurence Breuls as Michael / Dean Atkinson / Philip Holder / Odile Le Clezio / Adam Hedditch / Mark Priestly as Dan / John Batchelor / Monette Lee / Gary Baxter

THE MARRIAGE GAME

10 Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1966-72 black and white

Producer/Director: Kevin Ryder

Daytime game show based on a US original called The Newlyweds Game, it featured married couples guessing their partner's answers. There was a brief 1968 spin off actually called The Newlywed Game (for couples married less than a year). Hosts were John Bonney and then Malcolm Searle, Garry Meadows, Gordon Boyd.

MARRIAGE LINES

ABC / 1x75m-e / 1962 black and white

Producer/Director: Christopher Muir

Drama. A woman with three failed marriages behind her is determined to split up the marriage of her cousin.

With:- MARY WARD / WALTER SULLIVAN / PATRICIA KENNEDY / BEVERLEY DUNN / MOIRA CARLETON / CAMPBELL COPELIN / JOY MITCHELL

MARRY ME

9 Network / x30m-e / 2002 (First Episode: Thursday 7 February / 7.30pm)

Reality style show hosted by Francene Scali in which an unsuspecting partner is set up when their loved one wants to propose to them with viewers seeing the progress of the “sting” and its denouement. However there was not always a happy ending.

MARSHALL LAW

7 Network / 17x60m-e / 2002 (Tuesday 13 August 2002 - 26 November 2002)

Creator: Alison Nisselle

Comedy drama series. Stories of two sisters, Ros and Verity, living together and working together as lawyers. Ros was a junior crown prosecutor and verity was new to the bar. Also on the seen was Verity's ex husband Dylan (a well known QC). The show was to be Lisa McCune big return to the small screen after Blue Heelers but the show didn't take off as expected and was cancelled after one season.

With:- Lisa McCune as Ros Marshall / Alison Whyte as Verity Marshall / William McInnes as Dylan Boyd / Anne Phelan / Greg Stone / Jane Hall as Prue Staley / Frank Gallacher as Frank Dellabosca

MASTERMIND

ABC / x30m-e / 1978-84

Producer: Lloyd Capps

Cerebral quiz in which 64 contestants (4 per show) were whittled down to a single mastermind after completing, in the first half of the show, a generally highbrow specialist subject and then in the second half a general knowledge round. Hosted by Huw Evans and based on the UK original of the same name.

MATCHMATES

9 Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1981-82

Daytime game show with the generally youngish contestants trying to solve puzzles to win cash prizes. Hosted by David Waters.

MATLOCK POLICE

10 Network-Crawford / 220x60m-e / 1971-76

Creators: Ian Jones, Terry Stapleton

Crime drama series revolving around the lives of a group of country based policemen whose backgrounds and private lives were an integral part of the series. At the time Matlock Police had the biggest budget and was the most highly publicised show yet. The town of Matlock was on the central Highway about 100 miles from Melbourne and with a population of 17,300, there were 75,000 people in the surrounding district, the town had a long history of settlement and featured all classes from the landed gentry to the displaced settlement dwelling Aboriginals.
When the show started the focus was on four main characters; Sgt Bert Kennedy who was in charge of the station, Kennedy had been at the station 7 years; Detective Allan Curtis; Curtis was a city boy and resented his country posting; Detective Sergeant Vic Maddern; Maddern had spent all his life in the Melbourne area apart from a spell in the army for the Korean War and Constable Gary Hogan youngest of the four main players, Hogan was a highway patrolman.
The show was an immediate top ten hit and Crawford's initial budget for the show was $20,000 per episode and filming began in November 1970. In the TV Week of 5 June 1971 Michael Pate said that "we have the best Australian show on TV and we intend to keep it like that, Homicide and Division 4 had better watch out". This sense of rivalry between all three Crawford cop shows helped make them all better shows. In 1976 a brief spin off with Paul Cronin emerged this was called Solo One.

With:- PAUL CRONIN as Gary Hogan / VIC GORDON as Sgt Albert Kennedy / PETER GWYNNE / MICHAEL PATE as Det Sgt Vic Maddern./ TOM RICHARDS / GRIGOR TAYLOR as Detective Allan Curtis / SUE DONOVAN as Policewoman Irene Bishop (debut Episode: Still-Life)

MATT FLINDERS AND FRIENDS

ABC / 12x30m-e / 1972-73 black and white

Producer: James Davern / Director: Leigh Spence

Variety series headlined by singer Matthew Flinders, also appearing was Mary Jane Boyd.

A MATTER OF CHANCE

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1981

Producer: Joanna Penglet

Documentary series focusing on those people in society who are disadvantaged or disabled. Presented by Anne Deveson.

THE MAVIS BRAMSTON SHOW

7 Network / x60m-e / 1964-68

Comedy. Satirical sketch show that was based on the UK show That Was The Week That Was. In its heyday the show was one of Australia's most talked about TV shows with its digs at the establishment it soon became one of the top rating shows and established the careers of the likes of Gordon Chater, Carol Raye and Barry Creyton. The 1968 editions were 30 minutes long. The cast also featured RONNIE STEVENS / JOHN BLUTHAL / MIRIAM KARLIN / DAWN LAKE / REG LIVERMORE / JOHNNY LOCKWOOD / RON FRAZER / PETER REEVES

MAVIS’S BACK

7 Network / 1x60m-e / 1971

A reunion special of the Mavis Bramston Show with all the regulars returning like Gordon Chater, Ron Frazer, June Salter and Johnny Lockwood.

McLEOD'S DAUGHTERS

9 Network-Millennium Pictures-Foxtel / x60m-e / 2001-continuing

Animal Master: Bill Willoughby / Producer: Posie Graeme-Evans

Outback based drama series. Two sisters, separated as children by the divorce of their parents, are reunited when they are left the family's huge cattle property out in the bush, the girls Tess and Claire band together an all female workforce to keep their property (called Drover's Run) alive. Also on the property was housekeeper Meg Fountain and her daughter Jodi and also Becky Howard. The property next door was the Killarney and was owned by Harry and Liz Ryan. The Nine Network purchased the 55ha farm which provides the location for the series, its in Kingsford near Gawler in South Australia, the farm is home to 40 horse, 400 sheep and 100 cattle. Producer Posie Graeme-Evans was convinced the series would work and said " it's different to everything else that's on TV at the minute". The first Australian show to be filmed in HDTV (High Definition Television) format and also shot on super 16mm film.

With:- BRIDIE CARTER as Tess McLoed / LISA CHAPPELL as Claire McLeod / SONIA TODD as Meg Fountain / JESSICA NAPIER as Becky Howard / MARSHALL NAPIER as Harry Ryan / CATHERINE WILKIN as Liz Ryan / AARON JEFFREY as Alex Ryan / MYLES POLLARD as Nick Ryan / JOHN JARRATT as Terry Dodge / RODGER CORSER as Peter Johnson (2002-)

ME AND MR THORNE

7-Crawford / 1x90m-e / 1976

Writer: Terry Stapleton / Director: Paul Eddey / Producer: Henry Crawford / Executive Producer: Ian Crawford / Script Editor: Tom Hegarty / Series concept: Terry Stapleton & Laurence Marks

Comedy pilot for a possible series that would later transform itself into Bobby Dazzler. The plot concerned Bobby Fletcher getting a job in a bookshop run by Sherlock Holmes fanatic Mr Thorne and the pair of them getting involved with trying to stop crooks running a protection racket.

With:- JOHNNY FARNHAM as Bobby Fletcher / GORDON CHATER as Reginald Thorne / BEVERLEY PHILLIPS as Mrs Ballantyne / KATIE SHIEL as Shelley Gordon / ROGER WARD as Hedge / KEVIN LESLIE as Foxie / WALLAS EATON as Richard Small / DENISE DRYSDALE as Sally

MEDIAWATCH

ABC / x15m-e / 1989-?

Executive Producer: David Salter

Queen's Counsel Stuart Littlemore puts the media world under scrutiny.

MEDIVAC

Network 10-Liberty and Beyond / 48x60m-e / 1996-98

Creator/Producers: Tony Cavanaugh, Simone North / Music: Roger Mason / Executive Producer: Mickael Borglund

Medical drama series. Cases of the Medivac team working out of the Bethlehem West Hospital in Brisbane. The crews special area of operation was in the evacuation of trouble spots. The show is known as Adrenalin Junkies outside of Australia.

With:- GRAEME BLUNDELL as Dr Harry Edwards / GRANT BOWLER as Dr Arch Craven / DIETER BRUMMER as Dr Sean Michaels / DANIELLE CARTER as Bree Dalrymple / MARK CONSTABLE as Dr Mark 'Oopy' Hiltonwood / NICHOLAS EADIE as Dr Robert J. 'Red' Buchanan / LISA FORREST as Dr Marina Zamoyski / EUGENE GILFEDDER as Dr Wayne Doube / SIMONE KESSEL as Dr Stella O'Shaughnessy / RENA OWEN as Macy Fields / GENEVIEVE PICOT as Dr Julia Elizabeth McAlpine

MEET THE PRESS

A Twice done show where journalists interview prominent politicians and the like. 1. 1950's with David McNicoll as host and 2. 10 Network / x30m-e / 1992-? with David Johnston hosting.

MEET THE TOPPANOS

7 Network / x55m-e / 1958 black and white

A variety show broadcast in the afternoons starring husband and wife team Peggy Mortimer and Enzo Toppano (parents of actress Peta).

MELBA

7 Network-Amalgamated Global-Oliver Sullivan-Compact Television / 4x120m-e / 1988

Writer: Roger McDonald / Producers: Errol Sullivan, Pom Oliver / Camera: Dean Semler, Andrew Lesnie / Design: Roger Kirk / Costume: Jan Hurley, Roger Kirk / Executive producers: John Sturzaker, Alan Bateman, Ray Beattie / Director: Rodney Fisher

Period drama serial. The life story of opera superstar Nellie Melba from her early days in Australia to success on stages all over the world.

With:- LINDA CROPPER as Nellie Melba / HUGO WEAVING as Charles Armstrong / PETER CARROLL as David Mitchell / GOOGIE WITHERS / JOAN GREENWOOD as Madame Marchesi / MARIA AITKEN / JEAN PIERRE AUMONT / JUNE BRONHILL / MARGO LEE / JOHN SERGE / DAPHNE GREY / NELL SCHOFIELD as Belle Patterson / TOM BURLINGSON as Sid Meredith / JULIE HASELER / JUDI FARR / DAVID DOWNER / MICHAEL LERNER as Oscar Hammerstein

MELBA THE VOICE

ABC / 1x50 minute episode / 20 Feb 1971

Writer / Producer Brian Adams.

Wilfred Thomas looks into the legend which is Dame Nellie Melba, the great Australian opera singer. He talks with her contemporaries, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Lady Jessie Wood (wife of Sir Henry), who sang with her in 1905, Ivor Neuton, her accompanist, Beverly Nichols, her private secretary. Dame Mable Brookes, Australian singers Gertrude Johnson and Browning Mummery, and Lindley Evans.

MEMOIRS

10 Network-NLT Productions-Cinesound / 13x30m-e / 1965

Documentary. Series of programs focusing on prominent Australians seen through the eyes of the newsreel camera. Those featured included Robert Menzies, Charles Kingsford-Smith, John Curtin, Donald Bradman, Jack Crawford and Sir William McKell.

MENOTTI

ABC / 13x60m-e / 1981

Creator: Michael Craig / Producer: John Croyston

Drama series. The problems faced by a young Catholic priest. Working title was "The Pastoral".

With:- IVAR KANTS / PETER GWYNNE / GEOFFREY RUSH

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

ABC / 1x120minute episode / 1961 black and white

Producer/Director: Alan Burke

Early studio version of Shakespeare’s comedy.

With:- OWEN WINGOTT as Shylock / TANYA HALESWORTH / RON GRAHAM / JOHN UNICOMBE / LEONARD TEALE / BARRY CREYTON

MERCURY

ABC / 13x30m-e / 1996

Creator: Cliff Green / Script Editor: Susan Hore / Executive Producer: Sue Masters

Drama series. Stories of the staff working for high quality broadsheet newspaper The Sunday Mercury.

With:- BRUCE ALEXANDER as Dave Reynolds / ANN BURBROOK as Sue Kinsella / REX CALLAHAN as Emilio / MICKEY CAMILLERI as Sandra / MICHAEL CARMAN as Nick Loder / FIONA CORKE as Karin Grunewald / JASON CLARKE as Nathan Cohan / BRUCE ALEXANDER as Dave Raynolds / PAUL GLEESON as Dermot Madigan / GEOFFREY RUSH as Bill Wyatt / LEO TAYLOR as Paul

MESSAGE STICK

ABC / x30m-e / 2000-2001

A series of programmes that saw indigenous Australians telling their own stories. Initially hosted by Deborah Mailman (who left after taking a starring role in The Secret Life of Us) and then Stan Grant.

METROPOLIS

ABC / 5x25 minute episodes / 1966 black and white

Producer: Colin Mason

Documentary series looking at big issues to be found in a big city (crime, sex and violence were all heavily featured).

THE MICALLEF PROGRAMME

ABC-Artist Services Pty / 23x30m-e / 1998-2001

Executive Producer: Geoff Portman

Sketch series starring the eccentric Shaun Micallef. The show underwent a slight title change for season two going out as The Micaleff Pogram. Also involved were Rosalind Hammond, Francis Greenslade, Wayne Hope, Daina Reid, Jason Geary and Liam Amor.

THE MICHAEL COLE SHOW

ABC / 6x30minute episodes / 1965 black and white

A variety series headlined by singer/actor Michael Cole. Regulars were Annette Klooger, Lorraine Davis, Frank Thorn and the ABC Melbourne Dance Band.

MICHAEL WILLESEE’S AUSTRALIANS

9 Network-Roadshow-Coote and Carroll / 13x60 minute episodes / 1988

Producers: Ron Saunders, Pamela H. Vanneck

A series of dramas looking at famous Australians.

1. BETTY CUTHBERT (played by Helen Mutkins) / 2. CLYDE FENTON (played by Scott Burgess) / 3. ERROL FLYNN (played by Chris Stollery) / 4. GORDON BENNETT (played by Bill Kerr) / 5. JOHN NORTON (played by John Ewart) / 6. JACK DAVEY (played by Rhys McConnachie) / 7. JACK SIMPSON (played by Robert Wilcox) / 8. LEN DARCY (played by Peter Phelps) / 9. LOLA MONTEZ (played by Linda Cropper) / 10. LOTTIE LYALL (played by Odilie Le Clezio) / 11. MARY McKILLOP (played by Lorna Lesley) / 12. SOLDIER SETTLERS (played by Jim Holt) / 13. VIVIAN BULLWINKEL (played by Rachel Ward)

THE MICK MOLLOY SHOW

9 Network / 16x90m-e / 1998

Live Saturday night comedy sketch show headlined by Mick Molloy and also featuring the likes of Tony Martin, Bob Franklin and Pete Smith. Thanks to Barry Bits for his contribution to this entry.

MICRO MACRO

ABC / x25 minute episodes / 1978

Children's game show hosted by actor Noel Ferrier in which contestants could win prizes ranging from Mars Bars to electric blankets & video recorders. Celebrity panellists for the 'Micro Macro' series were Carol Raye, Jimmy Hannan & TV chef Bernard King (who also acted as panellist for popular TV talent show 'Pot Of Gold')

THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE

SBS - Film Australia / 6 x 55 minute episodes / 1984

Writers/Directors: Ben Lewis, Karl McPhee

Documentary series with a self explanatory title and made for the Australian Institute of Multi Cultural Affairs.

MIKE PRESTON

9 Network / 1x60m-e / 1971 (Broadcast: Friday 8 October / 9.00pm)

Variety special starring Mike Preston that featured appearances by June Bronhill, Bert Newtonb, Herb Elliott, Four Jacks and a Jill and Tim O'Connor. Songs performed included He Ain't Heavy, She's A Lady and If I Ruled The World.

MIKE WALSH'S MOOMBA CONCERT

9 Network / 1x60 minute episode / Broadcast Friday 4 March 1977 @ 8.30pm

A concert hosted by Mike Walsh to mark the opening of Melbourne's Moomba Festival. Guests included Jon English, Daryl Somers, The Silver Studs, Cobber's Bush Band, Delilah, Don Lane and Mike Williams. The show was broadcast from The Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne.

MIKE WALSH VARIETY

7 Network / 1x60m-e / 1970 (Broadcast: Thursday 22 January / 7.30pm)

A special in which Mike Walsh took a look back at the showbiz year and the guests who had appeared on Channel 7's studio A throughout it, these included Roger Miller, Al Martino, Sounds Incorporated, Selena Jones, Billy Eckstine and Donald Peers.

THE MIKE WALSH SHOW

Mike Walsh has hosted a light entertainment/talk show (both daytime and primetime) for three different networks.

1. 10 Network (1967-71 and 1973-74) | 2. 9 Network (1977-84 daytime and then switched to primetime in 1985, this run was cut half way through Walsh sued Channel 9 and won $7 million in compensation for the breaking of his contract) | 3. ABC (1987) on this Walsh was assisted by Jonathan Biggins, Geoff Kilso and a young Gretal Killeen.

MIKEY, PUBS AND BEER NUTS

Ten Network / 1x60m-e / 2000

Radio and TV Personality Mikey Robins travels Australia in search of the perfect Aussie pub. On 14 August 2001 there was an edition called Mikey's Pubs 2: Surf and Turf featuring the likes of Tim Ferguson and Tottie Goldsmith. On 10 December 2001 there was a follow up (again for 10) called Mikey’s Pub’s:Irish, Very Irish in which Robbins travelled across Ireland looking at pubs.

THE MISMATCH

ABC / 1x70 minute episode / 1979

Writer: Barry Donnelly / Producer: Eric Taylor / Director: Ken Hannam

Drama. A couple who have separated decide they should get back together because of their children but things are not easy between them.

cast
JANE HARDERS / STEPHEN O'ROURKE / MICHAEL AITKENS / MARGO LEE / JOHN BLUTHAL / MICHAEL CAULFIELD

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

9 Network-Paramount / 36x60m-e / 1989-90

Music: Lalo Schifrin / Producer: Michael Lake

Action adventure series. A revival of the late 1960's USA classic and relocated to Australia (mainly, it has to be said, because of a writers strike in Hollywood), the series saw Jim Phelps from the original show coming out of retirement following the death of one of his protégés and once again tangling with all manner of threats to the worlds stability, in an update of the originals "this tape will self destruct in five seconds" mission briefing this had briefings done by videotape. Filmed in Queensland (season ones 13 episodes) and in season two Melbourne but actually set in locations all over the world. The series had a budget of $1 million per episode.

With:- PETER GRAVES as Jim Phelps / TERRY MARKWELL / THAAO PENGHLIS / PHIL MORRIS / TONY HAMILTON

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