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THE
OCCASIONAL COOK
ABC /
x30m-e / 2002
Enthusiastic
cooking show hosted by the English James Reeson much in the style of
the UK's Naked Chef. The title of the series came from the fact that
Reeson centred on cooking for special occasions, parties, birthdays
etc.
OCEAN
GIRL
Beyond-Network
10-Jonathan M. Shiff / 78x30m-e / 1994-97
Creator/Executive Producer:
Jonathan M. Shiff / Executive Producers: Jonathan M. Shiff, Jennifer Clevers
Scifi adventure series. At an
undersea research station young Neri has amazing swim related powers and can
communicate with the animals of the deep (whales etc), she also makes friends
with the children of scientist Dr Dianne Bates. See also the animated New
Adventures of Ocean Girl.
With:- MARZENA GODECKI as Neri /
DAVID HOFLIN as Jason Bates / JEFFREY WALKER as Brett Bates / KERRY ARMSTRONG as
Dr Dianne Bates (seasons 1-2) / ALEX PINDER as Dr Winston Seth / WILLIAM McINNES
as Cmdr Jack Lucas (season 1) / NICHOLAS BELL as Dr Hellegren / GUY MALLABY as
Damien Jeffries (season 1) / LIZ BURCH as Dr Dianne Bates (seasons 3-4) / OLIVIA
HIDDLESTONE as Sally Anne Taylor
(Season 4)
OCEAN STAR
10 Network-BBHTV Pty Ltd / 13x30m-e / 2003
Producers: Tom Blackett & Bruce Best / Script Producer: Ro Hume
Childrens fantasy adventure series. A group of kids search for the mythical Ocean Star, a priceless cluster of
pearls lost in a cyclone forty years ago.
With:- Jared Daperis as Trent Steadman
/ Jason Smith as Dylan Steadman / Sage Butler / Brooke Callaghan / Graeme Blundell as Swampy / Rob Carlton / Joshua Brennan as Leo
/ Mark Colesmith as Spider
ONE DAY
MILLER
ABC / 7x30m-e / 1979
Writer: Geoffrey Atherden /
Producer: Bruce Best
Sitcom which grew out of an episode
of the anthology series Tickled Pink. The plotline concerned a young
married couple moving into a new home and having lots of work to do on it.
With:- TONY LLEWELLYN-JONES / PENNE
HACKFORTH-JONES / GERALDINE TURNER / MICHAEL AITKENS / PAUL MASON
THE
ONE DAY OF THE YEAR
7 Network / 1x90m-e /
1962 black and white
Writer: John Sumner /
Producer/Director: Rod Kinnear
Drama. A son accuses his father of
just using the Anzac celebrations as an excuse to get drunk.
With:- SYD CONABERE / STEWART WELLER
/ DENNIS MILLER / ELAINE CUSACK
ONE
SIZE FITS ALL
ABC-Island
Packet / 13x30m-e / 2000 (Wednesdays 9.30pm / First Episode: 30 August
2000)
Script
Editor: Fiona Scott-Norman / Producer: Rod Quantock, Rod Connolly /
Executive Producers: Geoff Portman (for ABC), Ted Emery (Island
Packet) / Director: Hugh Johnson
All
female comedy sketch show written by and starring Mary-Anne Fahey,
Denise Scott, Lynda Gibson, Andrea Powell, Christine Basil and Matilda
Donaldson.
ONE
SUMMER AGAIN
ABC /
3x60m-e / 1985 July
Writer:
Bill Garner / Idea: Humphrey McQueen / Camera: Ian Warburton / Design:
Gunars Jurjans, Max Nicholson / Costume: Paul Cleveland / Producer:
Keith Wilkes / Director: Mark Callan
Period
drama serial. The story of a group of artists (The Heidelberg School)
in the 1880's especially the fortunes of Tom Roberts.
With:-
CHRIS HALLAM as Tom Roberts / MICHELE FAWDON as Jane Sutherland / HUW
WILLIAMS as Arthur Streeton / WILLIAM ZAPPA as Billy Maloney / PHIL
SUMNER as Fred McCubbibn / JOAN SYDNEY / JOHN LEE / NINA LANDIS /
NANCY BLAKE / JOHN WOOD
ON
THE BEACH
7
Network / 2x120m-e / 2001 (17-18 January / Sunday and Monday 8.30pm)
Novel:
Nevil Shute
Scifi
drama. In the year 2006 Australia is the last safe place on Earth
following a nuclear conflict but radiation and inevitably death is
heading towards the country.
With:-
BRYAN BROWN as Julian Osborne / RACHEL WARD as Moira Davidson / ARMAND
ASSANTE as Cmdr Dwight Towers / GRANT BOWLER / JACQUELINE McKENZIE /
STEVE BASTONI / ROD MULLINAR / BILL HUNTER
ON
THE DEAD SIDE
Arts
& Energy Pty Ltd / 1x90m-e / 1995
Producers:
James Michael Vernon, Penny Wall / Writer/ Director:
James Michael Vernon
Crime
thriller telemovie. Dash Bearfire is embroiled in the
hunt for three Japanese swords when his friend Fisher
Post dies in unusual circumstances. Bearfire is joined
in his quest by a beautiful mute girl and her
mischievous dog.
With:-
Daniel Rigney, Toni Pearen, Gary Day, Mark Hembrow,
Melissa Jaffer, Richard Carter, David Baldwin, Martin
Vaughan, Shayne Foote, Ken Senga, Theresa Wong
ON
THE INSIDE
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1966-69 black and white
Producer/Director:
Alex Richie
Teenage
Sunday morning magazine show which used the setting of
an old house. Hosted by Peter Sumner.
ON
THE RECORD
ABC
/ 8x30m-e / 1982
Producer:
Peter Vendrell
Current
affairs show mixing both debate and news etc. Presenters
were Peter Couchman, Geraldine Doogue, Kel Richards and Paul
Murphy.
OPEN
BOAT TO ADVENTURE
9 Network /
2x60m-e / 1971 (Broadcast: 30 August - 6 September / Mondays 7.30pm)
Documentary. The
story of the Leyland Brothers 5000 mile expedition from Darwin to Sydney in an
18 foot open boat, following the route undertook by Matthew Flinders some 150
years before.
OPEN END
ABC / x60m-e /
1973 black and white
Producer: Alan
Bateman / Director: Ric Burch / Theme Music: Pat Aulton
Discussion
show which came from Canberra, shown late night and hosted by Gerald
Stone. The show was given free reign to over run it's sixty minutes
run time if it felt it need to.
OPEN
FILE
ABC /
10x30m-e / 1983
Documentary
series focusing on different aspects of modern day Australia.
Presented by Prakesh Mirchandani.
OPEN
HOUSE
9
Network / 39x60m-e / 1960 black and white
Variety
show with a country and western theme hosted by Roy Acuff (himself a
US country singer). Made in Sydney but an Australian-USA
co-production.
OPEN
TO QUESTION
ABC /
x45m-e / 1985
Current
affairs debate show in which politicians answered questions put to
them by the studio audience. Hosted by Prue Goward and based on the UK
show Question Time.
OPPORTUNITY
KNOCKS
7
Network-Paradine-Paterson / 26x60m-e / 1976
Producer:
Hughie Green
Talent
show based on the UK show of the same name (in fact the brains behind
that show Hughie Green came over from the UK to mastermind things
here). Hosted by John Farnham.
THE
ORACLE
ABC /
12x50m-e / 1979
Writers:
Laura Jones, Tony Morphett, Michael Cove / Music: William Motzing,
Kevin Hocking / Producer: Alan Burke
Drama
series. Episodes in the life of know it all talk radio DJ Steve Black.
With:-
JOHN GREGG as Steve Black / PAMELA GIBBONS / JULIE HAMILTON / DON
PASCOE
OTHELLO
ABC /
1x130m-e / 1965 black and white
Writers:
Raymond Westwell, David Bradley / Producer/Director: Patrick Barton
Shakespeare's
tragedy about Othello and what he believes is the unfaithfulness of
his wife Desdemona.
With:-
RAYMOND WESTWELL / JOAN MaCARTHUR / FRANCES McDONALD / JOHN GREGG /
TERRY NORRIS / JUDITH ARTHY / KENRIC HUDSON / DOUGLAS KELLY / DON
CROSBY / WILLIAM LLOYD
THE
OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE
10
Network-Central-Grundy / 4x60m-e / 1992
Writer: Denise Morgan
/ Novel: Noel Barber / Music: Martin Armiger / Costume: Jeanette
Goode, Anna Senior / Producer: Stanley Walsh / Director: Renny Rye
Period drama serial.
In the late 1930's a young British doctor arrives on an idyllic South
Pacific island determined to build a proper hospital but World War II
arrives to spoil his plans. Filmed on location in the Cork Islands New
Zealand the show was a UK-Australia co-production.
With:- JASON CONNERY
as Chris Master / JOSEPHINE BYRNE as Paula Reid / RICHARD WILSON as
Doc Reid / HYWEL BENNETT as Purvis / VIVIEN TAN as Aleena / TERENCE
BAYLER as Colonel Fawcett / JAY LAVEA LAGA'AIA as Mona / JUDY MORRIS
as Miss Sowerby / GARRY McDONALD as Johnson / ROBIN KORA as Tiki /
JUNE BISHOP as Mrs Fawcett / DAVID COLE as Dr Barton
OTIS
ABC
/ x30m-e / 1970 black and white
Producer/Director:
Lloyd Capps
Pop
culture magazine show for kids broadcast Sunday mornings and
hosted by Peter Sumner.
OUR
HOUSE
9
Network / x30m-e / 1993-?
Producer:
David Lyle
Home
improvement/lifestyle show looking at all aspects of making
your home beautiful. Presenters included Tracey Dale,
"Shirley" Strachan, Rebecca Gilling and Reg
Livermore.
OUR
MAN IN THE COMPANY
ABC /
15x30m-e / 1973-74
Writer:
John O'Grady / Producers: Bill Munro, Nicholas Parsons, Ted Robinson
Sitcom.
The misadventures of Humphrey Sullivan, working on the board of a
multi-national company. This show grew out of a comedy pilot called
Our Man in Canberra (broadcast 9 December 1971) with the same
character working as an MP, this was due to become a series in its own
right and indeed three episodes were made but never screened.
With:-
JEFF ASHBY as Humphrey Sullivan / KATY WILD as Kate Sullivan / WALTER
SULLIVAN as Company Director / DOLORE WHITEMAN as Mrs Ena Wheeler /
BENITA COLLINGS as Turner
OUR
PLACE
9
Network / x30m-e / 1989
Early
evening entertainment show broadcast weekdays and mixing music, chat,
guests etc. Hosts were Shane Bourne, Wilbur Wilde and Red Symons.
OUTBACK
STRIPPER
10 Network /
1x60m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: Thursday 12 July / 9.30pm)
Documentary
following a group of strippers and a cross dresser as they travel 3000 K's
through the outback heading for towns so small and remote that many of them have
never seen a strip show before.
OUTBREAK
OF LOVE
ABC /
3x60m-e / 1981 March
Writer:
Howard Griffiths / Novel: Martin Boyd / Design: Paul Cleveland,
Gunnars Jurjans / Costume: Gunnars Jurjans / Music: George Dreyfus /
Producer/Director: Oscar Whitbread.
Period
drama serial. Episodes in the lives of a well to do section of
Melbourne society in the run up to World War One.
With:-
ROWENA WALLACE as Diana Von Flugel / TONY BONNER as Russell Lockwood /
LARRY HELD as Wolfie Von Fluge / SIGRID THORNTON as Anthea Langton /
SUSANNAH FOWLE as Cynthia Langton / JACKIE WOODBURNE as Josie Von
Flugel / VAL LEHMAN as Mrs Montaubyn / LEWIS FITZ-GERALD as Captain
John Wickham / FRANK THRING as Arthur Langton / ILONA RODGERS as Miss
Marcia Rockingham / JOHN HIGGINSON as Guy / BRENDON LUNNEY as Freddie
Thorpe
THE
OUTCASTS
ABC /
12x30m-e / 1961 First Episode: 28 May black and white
Writer:
Rex Rienits / Producer: Colin Dean
Period
drama serial. Dr William Redfearn, after coming out of prison on
treason charges, teams up with New South Wales's Governor Macquarie to
try and gain better rights for the convict settlers there. A sort of
follow up to Stormy
Petrel.
With:-
HENRY GILBERT / RON HADDRICK / JOHN GREY / JOHN UNICOMB
OUT
OF LOVE
ABC /
4x55m-e / 1974
Writer:
Brian Faull / Producer: John Matthews
A short
anthology series of dramas all dealing with lost loves. The
productions were:-
1. I
DON'T WANT TO KNOW (With Jeff Ashby, Rowena Wallace, Melissa Jaffer,
Jennifer Cluff) / 2. IT WILL NEVER WORK (With Lynn Rainbow, Patsy
King) / 3. SEPARATE WAYS (With Edmund Pegge, Gerda Nicholson, Rona
McLeod) / 4. WHERE DID ALL THE MAGIC GO? (With Peter Gwynne, Olivia
Hamnett, Mark Clark).
OUT
OF THE FIERY FURNACE
ABC-Opus
/ 7x50m-e / 1984
Writer/Producer:
Robert Raymond
Documentary
series looking at how humankind has been able to develop various
metals throughout history. Presented by Michael Charlton.
OUTRIDERS
9
Network-Southern Star / 26x30m-e / 2001
Script
Editors: Kym Goldworthy, Stefan Pfaffle
Children's drama
series. Single mother Tori Konrad and her 14 year old son Jake run a riding
school, also on hand to help out was Tori's neice.
With:- KATE
RAISON as Tori Konrad / MARK FURZE as Jake / LUISE HELM as Julia / SIMON
SCARLETT / ABBIE CORNISH as Reggie / OLIVER ACKLAND as Vince
THE
OUTSIDERS
ABC-Portman
/ 13x60m-e / 1976
Creators:
Michael Craig, Don Buckham / Producer: James Gatward
Drama
series. 21 year old Peter Jarrett is unwilling to follow his father
into the family business and instead embarks on a journey across
Australia with his grandfather.
With:-
SASCHA HEHN as Peter Jarrett / ANDREW KEIR as Charlie Cole
THE
OUTSIDERS
ABC /
26x60m-e / 1972-73
Creator:
Colin Free / Executive Producer: Eric Taylor
Wartime drama
series. Writer Free though of the idea whilst on attachment to the BBC in the
UK. The team were also helped by The Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
With:- BEN
GABRIEL / KEN GOODLET / ANNE HADDY / JOHN HARGREAVES / NIGEL LOVELL / RICHARD
LUPINO / JOHN MEILLON / JUDY MORRIS / GARY MacDONALD / PETER SUMNER
OVERSEAS
AND UNDERSOLD
ABC-David
Flatman Productions / 18x30m-e / 1989-91
Producers:
David Flatman, Geoff Barnes
Documentary
series looking at Australia's huge export industry.
OVER
THERE
ABC /
26x50m-e / 1972-73
Creator:
Colin Free / Producer: Eric Taylor
Wartime
drama series focusing on one family as it goes through the trials of
the second world war.
With:-
JOHN HARGREAVES / PETER SUMNER / ANNE HADDY / SERGE LAZAREFF / MAX
MELDRUM / JOHN MEILLON / TERRY BADER / JUDY MORRIS / JOHN EWART
OZ-81
10
Network-Jacobson & Wolfe Productions / 2x50m-e / 1981
Producer:
Digby Wolfe
Comedy.
Strange show in which Australian eccentrics were interviewed by show
business personalities. Based on a US show called Real People,
cancelled after two episodes although 13 were planned.
With:-
RAY TAYLOR / ROBYN NEVIN / COL JOYE / SARAH GRANT / JOAN EVATT / ANNA
JEMISON
THE
OZ GAME
ABC-Taffner
Ramsay Productions / x30m-e / 1988-89
An
Australian themed quiz show based on the board game trivial pursuit
featuring three family teams of two. Hosted by John Derum and Alan
Glover.
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