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THE
MOLE
7
Network / x60m-e / 2000-2002
Executive
Producer: David Mason
10
contestants compete in a series of knockout challenges (racing against
the clock) aiming to win a total prize of $200,000, one of the
ten however is a saboteur out to spoil the chances of the others.
Hosted by Grant Bowler and season one was set in Tasmania and season
two in Victoria. One episode of the 2002 season took the form of all
the contestants having to appear on The Weakest Link.
MOMENT
OF TRUTH
Ten
Network / 6x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Saturday 21 July / 7.30pm)
Family
challenge show presented by Kerri-Anne Kennerley and based on a UK
original that was hosted by Cilla Black. Each week three families were visited by Kennerley and given
a week to perfect an often bizarre challenge (such as can stacking or
memorising a large list of things like Star Trek episodes). They then
had to perform the challenge in front of a studio audience, during
their week of learning the families used a video diary to record their
progress. The series was pulled after three of its proposed 12
episodes with three already recorded episodes to be shown later in the
year.
THE
MONDAY DUMP
7 /
x60m-e / 2001
Comedy
show hosted by Roy and H.G. with the pair taking a humorous look at the
week's events. On MOnday 22 October 2001 the duo had a live wedding on
the show between ASmber Royle and Chris Janowicz. Matrons of honour were
7 news presenters Kylie Gillies and Anne Fulwood.
MONEY
9
Network / x30m-e / 1992-continuing
Lifestyle
series devoted to all things finance and rumoured to be Kerry Packer's
favourite show. Presenters include Carol Baker, Paul Clitheroe and
Brad Young.
THE
MONEY GAME
7
Network / 1x60m-e / Monday 6 November 2000 / 7.30pm
Challenge
game show. Three contestants begin with nothing but the clothes they
stand in, a passport, drivers license and $10,000. With this they must
complete a trio of deals and make as much money as they can.
MONEY MAKERS
Ten Network - Grundy /
x30 minute episodes / 1971-73 and 1982
Producers: Bill Mason,
Hal Croxon
General Knowledge quiz
show that at the time offered the highest payout (some $25,000) of any
Australian quiz. This was also the first Australian quiz show to be
seen more than once a week. The production came from Brisbane and was
hosted by Philip Brady. It was revived briefly in 1982 with Jimmy
Hannan as host.
THE
MONEY OR THE GUN
ABC /
23x60m-e / 1989-90 plus occasional specials until 1994
Writer:
Andrew Denton / Producer: Mark Fitzgerald
Satirical
comedy show starring Andrew Denton in which he looked at a different
subject each week, the show was mainly notable for the fact that each
week a guest artist sang their own idiosyncratic version of Led
Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.
MORE WINNERS
ABC - ACTF / 6x50
minute episodes / 1990
Executive Producer:
Patricia Edgar
Follow up to the earlier
anthology series Winners. The episodes featured here were.
1. MR EDMUND
(Writer: Steven Spears | Director: George Whales | with Robert Grubb,
Rebecca Smart, Willie Fennell)
2. BOY SOLDIERS (Writer: Cliff Green | Director: Mark Joffe |
with Penne Hackforth Jones, Bruno Larence, Gary Sweet)
3. THE BIG WISH (Writer: Steven Spears | Director: Esben Storm
| with Rowena Wallace, Richard Moir, Justin Rosniak)
4. HIS MASTER'S GHOST (Writer: Roger Simpson | Director: Steve
Jodrell | with Jonathan Hardy, Simon Jones, Josephine Byrnes)
5.SECOND CHILDHOOD (Writer: Morris Gleitzman | Director: Mario
Anjrescchis | with Cameron Bryson, Hannah Birdsey, Grant Piro
6. THE JOURNEY (Writer: Jane Oehr, Ken Cameron | Director: Jane
Oehr | with Melanie Boomer, John Polson, Christian Cornell)
THE
MORNING SHIFT
7
Network / x120m-e / 2000 Weekdays 9.00am - 11.00am
Lifestyle
magazine type show hosted by Lisa Wilkinson and Duncan Armstrong.
MOTEL
7-ATN
/ 132x30m-e / 1968 black and white
Soap
drama series. Stories of the staff and residents of a motel in Canberra. The show was
shown at midday four times a week (and repeated in the evening). The
Gideon motel was run by Hal and Mary Gideon and the series was mainly
focussed on them and their family, who included businessman son Rod,
his put upon wife Gaye, their rebellious teenage son Chris, their
other daughters Liz (who was secretary to politician Paul Brennan -
which did help bring in another element to the serial).
With:-
JACK THOMPSON / WALTER SULLIVAN as Hal Gideon / BRENDA SENDERS as Mary
Gideon / ROSS HIGGINS /
HAROLD HOPKIS / JILL FORSTER as Gaye Gideon / GREGORY ROSS as Chris
Gideon / NOEL TREVARTHEN as Rod Gideon / TONY BRAZELL / GAE ANDERSON
as Liz Gideon / BRIAN JAMES as Paul Brennan / JOANNE WALMSLEY as Sue /
MAGGI GRAY as Janie / STUART FINCH as Andy Maxwell / ENID LORRIMER as
Bunty Creighton / HAROLD HOPKINS as Bruce Jackson / ALLAN LANDER as
Tony Cranwell / JOHN FASSEN as Alec Evans
MOTHER
AND SON
ABC /
42x30m-e / 1984-94
Writer:
Geoffrey Atherden / Producer/Director: Geoff Portman
Sitcom.
Middle aged writer Arthur Beare returns to his Mother's home following
the breakdown of his marriage. His Mum, who has a touch of senile
dementia, exploits her illness by being extremely demanding of her
son. A UK version of this show appeared in 1997 on the BBC under the
title Keeping Mum.
With:-
RUTH CRACKNELL as Maggie Beare / GARRY McDONALD as Arthur Beare /
HENRI SZEPS as Robert Beare / JUDY MORRIS as Liz Beare / SUZANNE
ROYLANCE as Deidre
MOYNIHAN
ABC-NZBC
/ 17x60m-e / 1977-78
Producers:
Eric Price, John Croyston, Brian Bell
Drama
series based around the character of Moynihan who was in charge of a
carpenters union in Wellington New Zealand and dealing with problems
he faced both at work and in his private life. The first drama series
co-production between the ABC and New Zealand Television One. Guest
stars included the likes of Rowena Wallace.
With:-
IAN MUNE / SHEILA HAMMOND / LOUISE PAJO / WALT BROWN / JULIA BLAKE /
BILL JOHNSON
MPSIB
ABC / 10x50 minute
episodes / 1982
Creator: Colin Free /
Music: Simon Walker / Producer: John Croyston
Crime drama series.
Cases from the files of the Polices Missing Persons Special
Investigation Bureau.
cast
MIKE PRESTON / PETA TEPPANO / BARRY QUINN
MRS
FINNEGAN
ATN 7
/ 13x30m-e / 1970
Creator:
Keith Smith / Producer: John Walters / Director: Stephen Wood / Music:
Tommy Tycho
Sitcom
about the exploits of a cleaning lady and her lackadaisical husband,
one of the last ATN 7 productions made directly by ATN without the use
of a production company.
With:-
MAX CULLEN / PENNY RAMSEY / REG GORMAN / DOLORE WHITEMAN / MARION
JOHNS
MUD, BLOODY MUD
ABC / 1x90 minute
episode / 1986
Writers: Cliff Green,
Lindsay Dresdon / Producer and Director: Oscar Whitbread
Documentary. Footage of
life for the Australian troops during world war II with,
interestingly, puppets providing linking moments of political send
ups.
voices by JON SIDNEY /
EDWARD HEPPLE / GRAHAM DOW / MAURIE FIELDS / also appearing were SIMON
THORPE and TONY RICKARDS
MURCHESON
CREEK
9
Network-Cash Harmon / 1x90m-e / 1976
Thriller.
Andrew Murcheson returns to his home town to take over his father's
medical practice (the town being named Murcheson Creek in honour of
his family.) He begins an affair with an old flame Karen Fields and
also finds himself stirring up secrets that should have stayed buried
after trying to settle his father's accounts.
With:-
MARK EDWARDS as Dr Andrew Murcheson / ROWENA WALLACE as Karen Fields /
ABIGAIL as Donna Lewis / SANDRA LEE PATERSON as Dr Myfanwy McKenna /
GORDON McDOUGALL / LEW LUTON / PHILIPPA BAKER / DENNIS MILLER / ANNE
LAMBER
MURDER
CALL
Nine
Network / 56x60m-e / 1997-99
Crime
drama series. Cases of a group of homicide detectives with every
episode beginning with the discovery of a body.
With:-
PETER MOCHRIE as Det Senior Constable Steve Hayden / LUCY BELL as Det
Senior Constable Tessa Vance / GARY DAY as Det Inspector Malcolm
Thorne / JENNIFER KENT as Constable Dee Suzeraine / GEOFF MORRELL as
Senior Sgt Lance Fisk / GLENDA LINSCOTT as Dr Imogen 'Tootsie' Soamses
MURDER IN THE
CATHEDRAL
ABC / 1x120 minute
episode / 1962
Producer and director:
William Sterling / Play: T.S. Elliot
Well mounted version of
Elliot's play about the murder of Thomas A Becket and his long term feuding
with Henry II.
cast
WYN ROBERTS / BARBARA FRANDON / MOIRA CARLETON / PATRICIA KENNEDY /
SYDNEY CONABERE / KEITH EDEN
MUSIC
HALL
7
Network / x60m-e / 1971
A
variety series featuring music and comedy and written by Peter Cook
and Dudley Moore. Guests included the likes of Terry-Thomas, Kaye
Ballard, Judy Carne, Tony Sandler and Ralph Young.
MUSIC IS...
ABC / 5x30 minute
episodes / 1962-64
Occasional shows in
which Professor Dr Basil Deane looked at different kinds of
music.
MUSIC TIME
7 Network / x 60
minute episodes / 1962-64
Producer: John Berry
Variety series featuring
music aimed at all ages. Presenters were John Wickham Hall and then
Lionel Long. Music was provided by the Tommy Tycho Orchestra.
MUSIC UNLIMITED
ABC / 13x30 minute
episodes / 1973
A show in which Brian
May (not the Queen Brian May of course) and the Melbourne Showband
performed music from the shows.
MY
BROTHER JACK
ABC /
10x30m-e / 1965 (First Episode: 21 August) black and white
Writer:
Charmian Clift / Novel: George Johnston / Design: Jack Montgomery /
Produced (and directed) by Storry Walton. Film sequences directed by
Gil Brealey.
Historical
drama series. Episodes in the life of a family living in the suburbs
especially that of Davey and his older brother Jack. Much of the
action centred around the hard times of the depressed 1930's ending
with outbreak of World War II. The tram used in the series was lent by
the Tramways Board and the serial only came about because the ABC
wanted to stop producing so many live plays and concentrate on
producing film drama instead. "Gil Brealey and I evolved
an unusual working relationship in which I produced the entire
project, and directed the television studio component - and Gil
directed filmed sequences." - Storry Walton
With:-
JOHN ARMSTRONG / STEWART GILL / RONALD MORSE / GORDON GLENWRIGHT /
ROSALIND SEAGRAVE / ED DEVEREAUX / NICK TATE / RICHARD MEIKLE
MY
BROTHER JACK
Ten Network-Apollo-Cinemedia-Artist Services Pty Ltd / 2x120m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: 3-4 June Sunday/Monday 8.30pm)
Associate
Producers: John Alsop, Sue Smith
Period
drama serial. 40 years in the lives of a middle class Melbourne family
with the action taking in events like world war two and the main
characters being two brothers Jack and Davy (through whose eyes the
story is told) with Davy becoming a journalist and later a war correspondent.
The series was very much based on novelist George Johnston's own life.
With:-
WILLIAM McINNES as Jack Sr / MATT DAY as Davy / SIMON LYNDON as Jack /
ANGIE MILLIKEN as Min / SARA COOPER as Jean / JACK THOMPSON / CLAUDIA
KARVAN as Cressida Morley / ELLOUISE ROTHWELL as Helen / SARA
COOPER as Jean
MY
BROTHER TOM
10
Network-Crawford / 2x120m-e / 1986
Writer:
Tony Morphett / Novel: James Aldridge / Camera: Jamie Doolan / Design:
Otello Stolfo / Costume: Clare Griffin / Music: Garry McDonald, Laurie
Stone / Producer: Rod Hardy / Executive Producers: Hector Crawford,
Ian Crawford / Director: Pino Amenta
Period
drama serial. During world war II in the small town of St Helen, Tom
Quayle falls in love with Peggy MacGibbon but tragedy awaits the pair
of them. The series was narrated by Tom's older brother Kit, a
journalist.
With:-
TOM JENNINGS as Tom Quayle / CATHERINE McCLEMENTS as Peggy MacGibbon /
CHRISTOPHER CUMMINS as Kit Quayle / CHRISTOPHER MAYER as Finn McCoil /
KEITH MICHELL as Edward Quayle / GORDON JACKSON as Lockie MacGibbon /
CHARLES 'BUD' TINGWELL as Justice Masters / NADINE GARNER as Jean
Quayle / RALPH COTTERILL as Dorman Wlker / GRAHAM ROUSE as Sgt Joe
Collins / KERRY McKAY as Jack Dobey / JEANETTE STERK as Catherine
Quayle / DICK MOSS as Charlie Castles
MY
BROWN SKIN BABY THEY TAKE 'IM AWAY
ABC /
1x50m-e / 1970
Documentary
from the Chequerboard series about two half caste Aboriginals Bob and
Amy Randall (married but both having been brought up on a mission
station) seeking a link with their tribal ancestry.
MY FAIR LADY
HSV / 7x20 minute
episodes / 1961
Entertainment show
hosted by Charles Bush and June Findlayson (a former Miss Australia)
in which housewives were given a beauty make over.
MY FRIENDS AROUND
THE WORLD
ABC - Pacific Films /
39 x 10 minute episodes / 1964
Producer: Roger Mirams
Travelogue type show
aimed at kids and looking at different countries and so on.
MY
HUSBAND MY KILLER
Ten
Network / 1x20m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: Sunday 18 February)
Writer: Greg Haddrick / Director: Peter Andrikidis / Executive
Producer: Des Monaghan
Crime
drama. When Megan Kalajzich is shot dead in the dark hours of the
night whilst sleeping next to her husband Andrew (who amazingly wasn't
harmed in the slightest), the police led by Detective Sergeant Bob
Inkster become suspicious of Andrew Kalajzich who strongly maintains
his innocence.
With:-
Colin Friels as Sergeant Bob Inkster / Martin Sacks as Andrew
Kalajzich / Geoff Morrell / David Field / Craig McLachlan /
Chris Haywood / Lucy Bell / Tara Morice / Linda Cropper as Megan
Kalajzich / Abi Tucker
MY
NAME'S McGOOLEY, WHAT'S YOURS?
ATN 7
Network / 88x30m-e / 1967-70
Writer/Producer:
Ralph Peterson / Music: Tommy Tycho / Director: Ron Way
Sitcom.
In the Sydney suburb of Balmain, young married's Rita and Wally
Stiller sometimes find it hard coping with the demands of Rita's
widowed father Dominic McGooley who they live with. When in 1970
Geoffrey Chater left the series the title was changed to Rita and
Wally but by that time the show was coming to a natural close anyway. Stewart
Ginn won a Penguin in 1968 for best supporting talent for his role in
the show.
With:-
GORDON CHATER / JUDI FARR / STEWART GINN as Nancarrow/ JOHN MEILLON
MY THREE ANGELS
ABC / 1x75 minute
episode / 1962
Producer and Director:
Alan Burke
Farcical comedy. At
Christmas time in French Guyana in 1919 a trio of convicts get mixed
up with a family.
cast
GORDON CHATER / RICHARD DAVIES / MURRAY ROSE / LAURIE LANGE / NANCYE
STEWART / ANNA VOLSKA / OWEN WEINGOTT
MY TWO
WIVES
9
Network-Gary Reilly Productions / 13x30m-e / 1992
Executive
Producer: Gary Reilly / Music: Mike Perjanik / Writers: Gary Reilly,
John Flanagan
Sitcom.
Lawyer Geoffrey Kennedy, his new wife and daughter move into an
apartment and discover that Geoffrey's ex-wife and kids live in the
apartment below.
With:-
PETER FISHER as Geofrey Kennedy / LINDA NEWTON / KYM VALENTINE / EMMA
JANE FOWLER / MORNA SERES / BRETT BLEWITT / PATRICK WARD / CHELSEA
MEGAN YATES
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