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RA!

Fox 8 (Pay TV) / x30m-e / 2001

Entertainment lifestyle show about the world of surfing hosted by former surfers Barton Lynch and Stuart Bedford-Brown. Much use was made of up and coming Aussie bands on the shows soundtrack.

RACKET

ABC / x60m-e / 1991

Music show, broadcast late at night and presented by James Valentine, Stephanie Lewis, Toby Cresswell and Joanne Corrigan.

RADIO WITH PICTURES

ABC / 13x50m-e / 1975

Producers: Ted Robinson, John Eastway, Bob Gibson

Music show aimed at 30 something rock fans.

RAFFERTY'S RULES

7 Network - Amalgamated TV /86x60m-e / 1987-90

Creator: Ben Lewin

Drama series following magistrate Michael Rafferty and the various court cases he was involved in.

With:- JOHN WOOD as Michael Rafferty / KATY BRINSON as Public Defendant / SIMON CHILVERS as Police Prosecutor / ALAN LOVELL as Constable Evans / ANDREW McFARLANE as Police Prosecutor / ARKY MICHAEL as Fulvio, Clerk of the court

RAINBOW SERPENT

SBS / 6x30m-e / 1985

Music: Peter Miller / Producer: Ann Bagger

Documentary series looking at both Aboriginal myths & legends and Aboriginal culture in general.

THE RAINBOW WARRIOR CONSPIRACY

7 Network - Golden Dolphin / 2x120m-e / 1988

Writer: David Phillips / Camera: Andrew Lesnie / Design: Laurence Eastwood / Costume: Helen Hooper /Music: Martin Armiger / Producer: Robert J. Loader / Executive Producer: Alan Bateman, Peter Sainsbury / Director: Chris Thomson

Drama serial. An investigation into the facts surrounding the sinking of Greenpeace ship The Rainbow Warrior in Marsden Wharf in Auckland Harbour by agents of the French  Security Services.

With:- JACK THOMPSON as Irvine / BRAD DAVIS as Neil Travers / MARY REGAN as Jenny / GERMAINE HOUDE as Mafart / LOUISE LAPARE as Dominique Prieur / ROSEMARY BLUNDO / GARY DAY / PETER CARROLL / GUY THAUVETTE / BRUNO LAWRENCE

RAPE OF THE BELT

ABC / 1x70m-e / 1964 black and white

Writer: Benn W. Levy / Producer/Director: Henri Safran

Period comedy fantasy. Hercules 9th labour involves him having to get his hands on a priceless jewelled chastity belt.

With:- TONY WARD / REG LIVERMORE / FERNANDO GLYNN / ARLENE DORGAN / NEVA CARR GLYNN / CHRIS CHRISTENSEN

RATBAG HERO

7 Network - Zelda Rosenbaum / 2x120m-e / 1991

Writer: Sonia Borg / Book: Mike Kelsall / Producer: Oscar Whitbread / Camera: Dan Burstall / Design: Robert Perkins / Costume: Rose Chong / Music: David Hirschfelder / Executive Producer: Zelda Rosenbaum / Directors: Oscar Whitbread, Geoffrey Pollack

Period drama serial. Painter Mike Kessel faces hard times growing up near the Murray River during the depressed 1930's.

With:- CAMERON NUGENT as Mike Kessel / MARCUS GRAHAM as Unc / ELAINE SMITH as Mum / MATTHEW KETTERINGHAM as Frizzy / PETER FISHER as Pop / MARION EDWARD as Gran / SIMON CHILVERS as Baldy / DARIUS PERKINS as Dave / GEORGE MALLABY as Benson / ROBERT MORGAN as McIntosh / REG EVANS as Cocky Brown / GUS MERCURIO / TONY BRIGGS    

RAW FM

ABC-Generation / x30m-e / 1997

Creators: Edward Tamir, Susan Macgillicuddy / Executive Producer: Sue Masters

Teen drama series. A trio of teens create their own hip and happening radio station - the Raw FM of the title.

With:- DOMINIC PURCELL as Granger Alister Hutton / MATTHEW DYKTYNSKI  as Robert Lewis Anderson / NADINE GARNER as Zelda Jade Lee / DAN SPIELMAN as Mark Mulholland / ELENA MANDALIS as Sarah Maria Tomic / JOELENE CRNOGORAC as Cara Tomic / SUDI DE WINTER as Curtis / AMIEL DAEMON as Emma / ARTHUR WONG as Tran / TOBI WENSTER as Greg

RAY MARTIN WITH MICHAEL CRAWFORD: BY REQUEST

9 Network / 1x60m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: Saturday 28 April / 9.30pm)

One off special in which sixty minutes alumni Ray Martin interviews actor/entertainer Michael Crawford with Crawford talking about his work for The Lighthouse Foundation (the Children empowering organisation) as well as singing a trio of songs from his new album.

THE RAY MARTIN SHOW

9 Network / x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Monday 1 October / 9.30pm)

A live hourly late night talk show hosted by Ray Martin whose career at the time was undergoing a bit of a renaissance. The show featured both local and international talent.

RED GARTER

10 Network-NLT Productions / 21x60m-e / 1971 black and white (First Episode Broadcast: Tuesday 6 April / 8.30pm)

Producer: Bobby Limb

A Variety show hosted by Bobby Limb with the set designed like and 1880's saloon. Regulars included Al Styne and his dance troupe The Red Garter Girls (the girls were Mercia Barden, Connie Larenzo, Barbara Boudot, Michelle Fawdon, Rosalind Talamini and Isabel Miklich). With musical backing provided by The Red Garter Orchestra. The set for the show was based on the Red Garter taverns to be found on the West Coast of America.

REDHEAP

ABC / 3x60m-e / 1972 black and white

Writer: Eleanor Witcombe / Novel: Norman Lindsay / Producer: Alan Burke / Director: Brian Bell

Drama. 19 year old Robert piper, brought up in the country, starts a new life at university in the city.

With:- PETER FLETT as Robert Piper / MICHAEL BODDY / PAMELA STEPHENSON / NORMAN YEMM / JUNE SALTER / ALEXANDER ARCHDALE / KATE FITZPATRICK / JOHN MORRIS / JOHN WOOD

RELATIVE MERITS

ABC / 10x60m-e / 1987

Writers: Lissa Benyon, Terry Larsen, Sara Dowse, Michael Cove, Jane Dehr / Design: Geoffrey Wedlock / Costume: Jolanta Nedman / Music: Martin Armiger / Producer: Martin Williams / Director: Colin Englert, Kate Woods, Peter Fisk, Karl Zwicky, Ron Elliott

Drama series. Journalist Sarah Russell becomes involved in the problems of a West Papuan refugee much to the disappointment of her partner Paul, a member of the Department of Immigration.

With:- ODILE LE CLEZIO as Sarah Russell / MADELINE BLACKWELL as Cath / BRENDAN HIGGINS as Paul Urback / ROBERT FRASER as Joe / LIZ HARRIS / DOROTHY ALISON / GORDON McDOUGALL / ERNIE DINGO

REPORT FROM GALLIPOLI

ABC / 1x55m-e / 1997 black and white

Writer/Producer: John Martin / Director: James Roberts

Period drama. Excellently staged drama (made to look like a documentary/news story with as it happens report and so on) about the badly managed Turkish campaign of World War I.

With:-  BARRY EATON / PETER GWYNNE / MICHAEL CRAIG / TOM OLIVER / VINCENT BALL / MARTIN HARRIS / NOEL TREVARTHEN / KEN GOODLET / HAROLD HOPKINS / MARTIN VAUGHAN / JOHN EWART / SHANE PORTEOUS / IVAR KANTS / JOHN JARRATT

THE REPORTERS

10 Network / x50m-e / 1982

Creator: Brian Dale / Producer: Derek Pola

Current affairs show looking at the weeks major news stories. Those involved were Steve Cosser, Mary Delahunty, Ken Burslem, Chris Hawkins and Scott Chisholm.

THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTUO UI

ABC / 1x115m-e / 1972 black and white

Writer: Bertold Brecht / Music: Sandra MacKenzie

Drama. Hitler's rise to power is parabled as a tale of a gangster's (the Arturo Ui of the title) rise to power in 1930's Chicago. Old Tote Theatre Production.

With:- JOHN BELL / RONALD FALK / TERRY BADER / TOM DYSART / HELEN MORSE / KEN SHORTER / JOHN TRENAMAN / BRENDON LUNNEY

THE RESTLESS YEARS

10 Network-Grundy /781 episodes x30m-e x60m-e / 1977-80

Drama series. Episodes in the lives of a group of school leavers as they try to make their way in the world. Main characters included Peter Beckett and would be model Penny Russell often shown week nightly but sometimes twice weekly in 60 minute episodes. The show spawned both German and Dutch versions. Jon Blake's career was cut short in 1986 after a car accident saw him left brain damaged.

With:- JUNE SALTER as Miss Elizabeth McKenzie / NICK HEDSTROM as Peter Beckett / GRHAM THORBURN / DEBORAH COULLS as Penny Russell / MALCOLM THOMPSON as Dr Bruce Russell / JULIANNE NEWBOULD as Alison Clarke / ZOE BERTRAM as Olivia / ANNA HRUBY / VICTORIA NICHOLLS as Raeleen Geddes / JON BLAKE as Sonny Blake  

RETURN TO EDEN

Hanna Barbera-McElroy and McElroy / 28x60m-e / 1983 and 1986

Creator: Michael Laurence / Music: Brian May / Script Editor: John Alsop / Executive Producer: Hal McElroy / Producer: Tim Sanders

Drama series. Business tycoon Stephanie Harper finds herself coming under attack on two counts, one; her business and two; her childhood friend who once tried to kill her reappears in her life. Return to Eden started out in 1983 as a 6 hour blockbuster mini series in the stayle of Dallas/Dynasty and was one of Australia's biggest budget shows at that time. Three years later a full 22 episode series emerged taking up the story seven years later.

With:- REBECCA GILLING as Stephanie Harper / JAMES SMILLIE as Dr Dan Marshall / PETA TOPPANO as Jilly Stewart / DANIEL ABINERI as Jake Sanders / PETER COUSENS as Dennis Harper / MEGAN WILLIAMS as Cassie Jones / WARREN BLONDELL as Tom McMaster / NICKI PAUL as Sarah Harper / ANGELO D'ANGELO as Angelo Vitale / PETER GWYNNE as Bill McMaster / CHRIS HAYWOOD as Jason Peebles

RETURN TO JUPITER

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R.F.D.S.

13x60m-e / 1993

Executive Producer: Terry Ohlsson / Producer: Peter Andrikidis

Drama series. Short run spin off from The Flying Doctors.

With:- STEVE JACOBS as Dr Jim Solomon / BELINDA DAWEY as Laura Regan / LEWIS FITZGERALD as Dr Sebert Blitho / ELAINE SMITH as Dr Sissy Wetherall / MAURIE FIELDS as Vic Buckley / PETER PHELPS as Sir Dennis Taylor / SOPHIE LEE as Penny Wellings / MARIEK HADRY as Zoe Solomon / SIMON GRAY as Jess Solomon / LYDIA MILLER as Leanne Cassidy / SIMONE BUCHANAN as Rebecca Owens

RICHMOND HILL

10 Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1988

Drama series. Early evening soapie set in the rural town of Richmond Hill just outside of Sydney. Focal point of much of the show was the local 'cop-shop' headed by Dan Costello. Many of the cast had appeared in other Australian soap style series with Amanda Muggleton from Prisoner, Gwen Plumb from Young Doctors etc. The show was reasonably popular but only lasted for 1 year.

With:- ROSS HIGGINS as Don Costello / FRANK HACKETT as Robert Alexander / AMANDA MUGGLETON as Connie Ryan / MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK as Ivy Hackett / EMILY SYMONS as Anne Costello / GWEN PLUMB as Mum Foote / TIM ELSTON as Warren Bryant / PAULA DUNCAN as Janet Bryant / ASHLEY PASKE as Marty Bryant / FELICITY SOPER as Susan Miller / ROBERT SAMPSON as Tim Shannon / DINO PANOZZO as Jill Warner / MARC GRAY as Andrew Ryan / BENJAMIN FRANKLIN as Norm   

RIDE ON STRANGER

ABC / 4x60m-e / 1979

Writer: Peter Yeldham / Novel: Kylie Tennant / Design: Louella Hatfield, Quentin Hole, George Liddle / Music: Arnold Butcher, Ron Martin / Executive Producer: Alan Burke / Director: Carl Schultz

Period drama serial. Episodes in the life of country girl Shannon Jones in the 1930's, from her working for her Aunt as a maid to moving to Sydney and getting involved with a religious sect.

With:- LIDDY CLARK as Shannon Jones / MICHAEL AITKENS as John Terry / BARBARA WYNDON as Aunt Edith / NOEL TREVARTHEN / HENRISZEPS as Vincent Sladder / BUNNEY BROOKE as Grannie Jones / KEVIN LESLIE as Uncle Herbie / NONI HAZLEHURST as Beryl / WARWICK SIMS / PETER CARROLL / ELSPETH BALLANTYNE / JOHN BLUTHAL / LORNA LESLEY / RON GRAHAM / MARGOT LEE / MOYA O'SULLIVAN

RING OF SCORPIO

9 Network-Southern Star-Sullivan-BBC-Australian Film Finance Corp / 2x120m-e / 1990 28-29 October

Writer: Suzanne Hawley / Camera: Jamie Doolan / Design: Roger Ford / Music: Martin Armiger / Producer: Errol Sullivan / Executive Producers: Alan Bateman, Kim Williams / Director: Ian Barry

Drama serial. After being used by evil drug smuggler Richard Devereaux, three Australian women are forced to spend time in a horrible Spanish prison, years later back in Oz, the girls (after rebuilding their lives) are amazed to find Devereaux (now called Duvall) also in Australia and up to his old tricks, they then plot their rvenge.

With:- CAROLINE GOODALL as Helen Simmons / LINDA CROPPER as Marlene Walker / CATHERINE OXENBURG as Fiona McDonald / REBECCA GIBNEY as Judith / JACK SCALIA as Richard Devereaux / PETER KOWITZ as Gary Withers / RHYS McCONNACHIE as Harry Roberts / MARTIN JACOBS as Peter / CAZ LEDERMAN as Pauline / RICHARD MOIR as Sgt Hayes / FRANK WHITTEN as John Walker / SUSAN PAGE    

RIPTIDE

Network 7-Artransa Park-Trans Pacific Entertainment / 26x60m-e / 1969

Creator: Michael Noonan / Idea/Executive Producer: Guy V. Thayer Jr / Music: Tommy Tycho / Story Consultant: Robert Banks Stewart

Action adventure series. The premise of the series had Andrews, an American, sailing to Australia to try and get over the loss of his (Australian) wife (killed in a car crash), Andrews then decides to stay ands help his father in law run a charter boat business.

With:- TY HARDIN as Moss Andrews / SUE COSTIN as Judy Plenderleith / JONATHAN SWEET as Neil Winton / SLIM DE GREY as Carl / CHRIS CHRISTENSEN as Barney Duncan

RISING STARS

ABC / 4x30m-e / 2001

Documentary going behind the scenes of The Talent Development Project Inc. A company (funded by a private group and the NSW government) teaches youngsters from year ten onwards how to prepare for a career in the entertainment industry.

RISKY BUSINESS

SBS / 5x30m-e / 2000 (June - July / Wednesdays 8.00pm)

Writer/producer/director: Susan Lambert

A sort of docusoap come real life sitcom following the ups and downs of four small businesses and the people who run them; there was a fast food outlet; an ice cream cafe; a fashion design company and a mobile phone company. Narrated by H.G. Nelson.

RITA AND WALLY: See My Name's McGooley

THE RIVER KINGS

ABC-Prospect / 4x60m-e / 1991

Writer/Producer: Robert George / Novel: Max Fatchen / Director: Donald Crombie

Period drama serial. In the 1920's Shawn Hofner leaves the family farm to take a job working on the steamboat The Lazy Jane where he falls in love with a girl called Mary.

With:- TAMBLYN LORD as Shawn Hofner / BILL KERR as Captain Elijah / EDWARD HEPPLE as Angus / WILLIE FENNELL as Praying Jack / CECIL PARKEE as Charlee / REG EVANS as Mallee Ned / KATE MULCAHY as Mary Thompson / EDMUND PEGGE as Fred Thompson / DI CHAMBERLAIN as Gwen Thompson / DAVID BRADSHAW as Captain Snane / GRANT PIRO as Spud / MAUREEN SHERLOCK as Flossie / JACKIE KERIN as Lottie Hofner / HAMISH FLETCHER as Michael Hofner

A RIVER SOMEWHERE

x30m-e / 1998

Comedic actors and writers Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner travel the world (usually somewhere far flung and exotic) in search of the worlds best spot for fly-fishing. After catching their dinner they would then enlist the help of a local chef to help them cook it.

Writers/Directors: Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner / Music: Liam Bradley / Camera: Joanne Donahoe / Executive Producers: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Michael Hirsh, Jane Kennedy, Rob Sitch

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