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S1 - THE SADDLE CLUB TO SHIP TO SHORE

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THE SADDLE CLUB

Crawfords Australia / Protocol Entertainment Inc. / 26x30m-e / 2001

Executive Producers: Tom Parkinson, Bruce Gordon, Steve Levitan, Paul Bronfman / Producers: Lynn Bayonas,  Sarah Dodd / Books: Bonnie Bryant / 

Children's drama series. A group of girls start their own horse adventure club.

Keenan MacWilliam as Carole Hanson / Sophie Bennett as Stevie Lake / Lara Jean Marshall as Lisa Atwood / Heli Simpson as Veronica di Angelo / Brett Tucker as Max Regnery / Catherine Wilkin as Mrs. Reg / Kia Luby as Kristi Cavanaugh / Glenn Meldrum as Phil Marsten / Nathan Phillips as Red O'Malley / Janelle Corlass-Brown as Ashley / Anthony Hammer as Sam / Sophie Hensser as Megan / 
Marisa Siketa as Melanie Atwood / Marie-Louise Walker as Eleanor Atwood / Melanie Ryder as Helen di Angelo / Maggie King as Dr. Judy Barker

 

SALE OF THE CENTURY

9 Network / x30m-e / 1980-continuing (First Episode Broadcast: 14 July 1980 / 7.30pm)

Quiz show of the General Knowledge kind with a trio of contestants answering fastest on the buzzer questions to win cash and prizes. The show was first mooted by Reg Grundy in 1969 when he decided he would like to make a local version of the US Show, he was unable to get the format rights, this led to the devising of the show Temptation which quickly became a daytime hit, it wasn't until 1980 that Grundy snagged the rights to Sale of the Century, Temptation host Tony Barber getting the seat for this show too. Barber quit in February 1991 over money matters and Glenn Ridge took over in April of that year. The shows first champion in 1980 was Vince Smith who won $73,149 but cash prizes have since exceeded $600,000. Co-Hosts have included Victoria Nicholls, Delvene Delaney, Alyce Platt, Jo Bailey, Nicky Buckley and Karina Brown.

 

SAM'S LUCK

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1980

Writer: Noel Robinson / Producer: Keith Wilkes / Director: David Zweck

Children's drama series. A trio of kids have to fend for themselves when their mother goes away.

With:- DAVID CLENCIE / ERNIE BOURNE / DENA McABEE / PAUL COLOMBANI / MICHAEL CARMAN

 

SARA DANE

10 Network-South Australian Film Corp. / 2x120m-e / 1982

Writer: Alan Seymour / Novel: Catherine Gaskin / Camera: Ernie Clark / Design: Christopher Webster / Costume: Anna Senior / Producer: Jock Blair / Director: Gary Conway, Rod Hardy

Period drama serial. Young Sara Dane, a servant, is harshly sentenced to transportation to New South Wales (for a crime she is not guilty of).

With:- JULIET JORDAN as Sara Dane / HAROLD HOPKINS as Andrew Maclay / BRENDON WHITTLE as Jeremy Hogan / BARRY QUINN as Richard Barwell / SEAN SCULLY as Louis de Bourget / ILONA RODGERS / PAUL SONKKILA / PETA TOPPANO / ALAN CASSELL / JOHN TRINDER / JACKIE WOODBURNE / MICHAEL POPE / WAYNE BELL / ANNA VOLSKA / ROGER OAKLEY 

 

SATURDAY AT RICK'S

9 Network / x120m-e / 1992

Saturday morning kids show broadcast live from Warner's Movie World (on the Casablanca set - hence the title). The show lasted just four months and the hosts were Steven Jacobs, Tanya Lacey and later also Lachlan Daddo.

 

SATURDAY DATE

9 Network / x60m-e / 1963-67 black and white

Producer: Pat Condon

Musical variety series (broadcast live), one interesting element was the inclusion of film clips of big name acts (mainly appearing on US show Shindig). Hosted by Bob Cornish with Jocelyn Terry and Corrine Kerby. Music was provided by Marnie Reid.

 

SATURDAY MORNING FLY

ABC / x120m-e / 2002

Executive Producer: Bruce Kane

Weekly highlights from a digital Pay TV channel called Fly. Broadcast Saturday Mornings and presented by Jade Skelly and Eamonn Miller. The show was a mix of music and popular culture. 

 

SATURDAY MORNING LIVE

7 Network / x180m-e / 1988-89

Producer: Kris Noble

Children's Saturday morning entertainment hosted by Jono and Danno.

 

SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY

ABC / x45m-e / 1959 black and white

Producer: Robert Davidson

Saturday evening variety series hosted by Bob Cornish and also featuring Jocelyn Terry and Corinne Kerby.

 

THE SATURDAY SHOW

ABC / x30m-e and x50m-e / 1959-60 and 1978-82

Producers: Frank Ward (1959-60), Michael Shrimpton and Grant Rule (1978-82)

Variety series that was made twice 1. 1959-60 with Rosemary Butler and Bambi Smith. 2. 1978-82 with Michael Cole, Lovetta Farrar, Darryl Stewart, Philip Gould, Jane Scali and Debbie Byrne.

 

SATURDAY SPECIAL

ABC / 7x55m-e / 1979

Producer/Director: Rob Weekes

A series of individual special that were supposed to serve as pilots for potential variety series. Those appearing included Barry Crocker, Jill Perryman, The Four Kinsmen, James Pegler, Rolf Harris, Peter Regan and James Pegler.

 

SATURDAY WEEK

ABC / x60m-e / 1973-76

Producer: Brian Taylor

Current affairs show hosted by Clive Hale and Kerry O'Brien.

 

SATURDEE

7 Network-LJ Productions-Revcom / 10x30m-e / 1986

Producers: John Gauci, Louise Hall / Director: John Gauci

Saturday evening variety series.

 

SATURN'S RETURN

SBS (Part of the Hybrid Life series) / 1x30m-e / 2001 (Broadcast: Friday 15 June / 9.00pm)

Writer: Cristos Tsiolkas

Drama. A pair of gay lovers Dimi and Barney drive from Melbourne to Sydney to visit Dani, the father of Barney, who has the AIDs virus and is dying.

With:- DAMIAN WALSHE-HOWLING as Dimi / JOEL EDGERTON as Barney

 

SAY G'DAY

9 Network / x30m-e / 1987

Producers: Michael Boughen, Wayne Cameron

Magazine/entertainment show hosted by Greg Evans, the show tried to be too many parts of too many different things (like mixing in elements of Wonderworld and Candid Camera). Reporters included Brett Clements, Tammy Van Zutphen, Craig Campbell and Janelle Munro.

 

SAY IT WITH MUSIC

TCN 9 /x30m-e / 1957 black and white

Musical variety series hosted by pianist Frank Lawrence.

 

SAY IT WITH MUSIC

10 Network / x60m-e / 1967-69 black and white

Producer/Director: Kevin Ryder

Basically a re-naming of the Barry Crocker show (Tuesday night edition anyway) and offering more of the same variety/music/comedy etc. Regulars included Helen Zerofos, Kathy Lloyd, Neil Williams, Carlu Carter and Bill McGrath.

 

SAY WHEN

9 Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1962-64 black and white

Producer: Reg Grundy

Daytime game show which later became Spending Spree. The format had the contestants having to buy prizes but having to know when to stop and not go bankrupt. Hosted by Jimmy Hannan with the help of Valerie May.

 

SCALES OF JUSTICE

ABC / 3x80m-e / 1983

Writer: Robert Caswell / Camera: Julian Penney / Design: Neave Catchpool / Producer: Michael Carson / Director: Michael Jenkins

Crime drama. Three feature length dramas about various aspects of the Australian judicial system. Act One - The Job -about probationary Constable Webber / Act Two - The Game was about the rivalry between two cops / Act Three - The Numbers was about would be reforming attorney general Glen Fenis.

With:- THE JOB: SIMON BURKE as Constable Webber / JOHN HARGREAVES as Constable Borland / BILL HUNTER as Sgt O'Rourke / ISBALLE ANDERSON as Constable Callahan // THE GAME: DENNIS MILLER as D.S. Draffin / TIM ROBERTSON as D.S. Miles / TONY BARRY as Nipper Jackson / PETER GWYNNE as Inspector Peters // THE NUMBERS: NICK TATE as Glen Fenis / RICHARD MEIKLE as Premier Cooper / JOHN MEILLON as Barnes / BRIAN McDERMOTT as Carpenter / ANTOINETTE BYRON as Prostitute 

 

SCATTERGOOD - FRIEND OF ALL

ABC / 6x30m-e / 1975 

Creator: Maurice Murphy / Producer: Bill Munroe / Directors: Ted Robinson, Alastair Smart

Sitcom. Scattergood is an accident prone young man who manages to create chaos wherever he goes. The character first appeared in the Comedy Game.

With:- MAX CULLEN / REDMOND PHILLIPS / REG EVANS / LEX MITCHELL / DENNY LAWRENCE / LEXD MARINOS

THE SCHOOLMISTRESS

ABC / 1x90m-e / 1967 black and white

Writer: Arthur Wing Pinero / Producer: John Croyston / Director: Alexander Hay

Comedy. A group of girls stuck at boarding school during the holidays discover one of the girls is married and hatch a plan to sneak her husband into the school.

With:- DAVID COPPING / KIRRILY NOLAN / JEANIE DRYNAN / JUDITH FISHER / JACKI WEAVER / CLARISSA KAYE / FRANK LLOYD

 

SCIENCE QUESTION TIME

ABC / x30m-e / 1964-65 black and white

Producer: Peter Pockley

Discussion. Scientists answer questions sent in by viewers. Shown fortnightly and hosted by Professor J.B. Baxter and then by Dr Peter Pockley (the producer of the show).

 

SCOOP

SBS-Streets Ahead / x30m-e / 1980-83

Producers: Mary Doulton, Eric Fullilove

Heavyweight current affairs show, hosts were Xavier De Barcenas and later Lex Marinos.

 

SCORE

Comedy Channel (Pay TV) / x30m-e / 2002

A fast paced game show hosted by Stanley and Dave Williams. It put five girls together with five boys for five minutes in order to try and find their ideal partner and win a romantic weekend away.

 

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE

ABC / 1x90m-e / Saturday 14 October 2001 / 9.30pm

An entertainment recorded at the Sydney Opera House and celebrating all things Scottish, featuring the Queensland Pops Orchestra conducted by Colin Harper, a 60 voice choir, celtic dancers, pipes and drums and four soloists.

 

SCREAM TEST

Ten Network / x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Wednesday 21 February 9.30pm)

A reality style game show in which a quartet of contestant/volunteers agree to spend the night at a supposedly haunted location. Armed only with a logbook and a video recorder each contestant had to spend an hour alone in said location. Hosted by Louise Crawford.

 

SEACHANGE

ABC-Artist Services/ 39x60m-e / 1998-2000

Creator: Deborah Cox / Producer: Sally Ayre Smith / Executive Producers: Andrew Knight, Peter Bellby, Andrea Denholm, Sue Master

Drama series. City lawyer Laura Gibson realises she is at a crossroads in her life - she decides to upsticks and take a job as magistrate in the coastal town of Pearl Bay with she and her two kids having to adjust to their new lives. The series ended with two of the characters Angus and Karen getting married. Although set in the fictional coast village of Pearl Bay it was filmed in Barwon Heads.

With:- SIGRID THJORNTON as Laura Gibson / DAVID WENHAM as Daniel 'Driver Dan' Della Bosca / JOHN HOWARD as Bob Jelly / WILLIAM McINNES as Max Connors (season 2) / BRUCE ALEXANDER as Sgt Grey / KERRY ARMSTRONG as Heather Jelly / KATE ATKINSON as Karen Miller / CHRISTOPHER LYONS as Trevor Findlay / TOM LONG as Angus / KATE ATKINSON as Karen

 

SEAGULLS OVER SORRENTO

HSV-7-Crawford / 1x90m-e / 1960 black and white

Writer: Hugh Hastings / Producer/Director: Alf Potter

Comedy. Exploits of a group of people living in an English, disused naval fortress. Australia's first play made by an independent company.

With:- BILL HODGE / PETER AANENSEN / FRANK TAYLOR / CARL BLEASBY / DON CROSBY / STUART WAGSTAFF / BRIAN JAMES

 

SEARCH FOR A STAR

10 Network / x60m-e / 1970-71 and 1981

Talent quest type show which was hosted by John Mahon. Revived in 1981 with Jimmy Hannan as compere.

 

SEARCH FOR A SUPERMODEL

Ten Network / x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Thursday 20 September / 8.00pm)

Entertainment series hosted by former big brother contestant/inmate Jemma Gawned in which an Australian girl attempted to win for herself a shot at a US$250,00 contract with Ford Models. The series followed the selection process from the open auditions to the 'Supermodel School' in Melbourne down to the final 12 living together in 'Model House'. The winner went on to compete in the Supermodel of the Year competition.

 

A SEASON IN HELL

ABC / 1x75m-e / 1964 black and white

Period drama. A pair of French poets find their relationship leads to tragedy at the turn of the 19th century.

With:- ALLEN BICKFORD / ALASTAIR DUNCAN / ANNE HADDY / BNETTY DYSON / EVE HARDWICKE / MARION JOHNS

 

SEASONS

7 Network / 8x50m-e / 1993

Executive Producer: Gary Fenton

Magazine show devoted to all things sports. With Bruce McAvaney, Brooke Bayvel, Anne Johnson, Jack Newton, Stephen Phillips and Simon Reeve

 

SEBASTIAN AND THE SPARROW

Beyond / 1x92m-e / 1987 

Writer/Producer/Director: Scott Hicks

An uplifting story about the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys living in adjoining suburbs, but with lives that are worlds apart. Life's tough for Sparrow, sleeping in clothing bins, scavenging food, and staying one jump ahead of skinheads and the law. Sebastian thinks life's tough too. Trapped in the cocoon of middle class comfort, he's bored with his predictable existence. They meet over a video game and embark on a journey into the wilderness which will change them both forever.

With:- Alexander Bainbridge

 

SECOND CHANCE

10 Network-Grundy / x30m-e / 1977

Producer: Bill Mason

Quiz show with a gambling theme and based on a US original. Produced in Brisbane. Hosted by Earle Bailey and Christine Broadway.

 

SECRET BRIDESMAIDS' BUSINESS

ABC / 1x90m-e / 2002 (Sunday 9 June / 8.30pm)

Play: Elizabeth Coleman / Producer: Lynda House / Director: Lynn-Maree Danzey

Comedy drama. The 24 hours leading upto the wedding of Meg Bacon when an 11th hour crisis almost causes the wedding to veer off course.

With:- HELEN DALLIMORE as Meg Bacon / REBECCA FRITH as Angela / SACHA HORLER as Lucy / VINCE COLOSIMO as James / VAL LEHMAN / ALICE McCONNELL

 

THE SECRET LIFE OF US

Ten Network-Southern Star-Optus-C4 / 1x120m-e 20x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Monday 16 July / 9.00pm)

Producers: John Edwards, Amanda Higgs

Drama series. The intertwined relationships of a group of nine twentysomethings 8 of whom share 3 apartments in the same block. Alex the doctor shares with writer Evan and new flatmate Kelly, upstairs were lawyer Jason and his girlfriend Gabrielle (Alex's best friend) and in the third flat are actors Miranda and Richie and scaffolder Will, completing the group is bartender Simon. Produced at Crawfords Australia Studios, Melbourne. Winner of an Awgie 2001 for best original telemovie for its pilot episode. A behind the scenes documentary was broadcast on 10 June 2002, it was called The Secret Life of the Secret Life of Us.

With:- CLAUDIA KARVAN as Alex / SAMUEL JOHNSON as Evan / DEBORAH MAILMAN as Kelly / SIBYLLA BUDD as Gabrielle / DAMIAN DE MONTEMAS as Jason / SPENCER McLAREN as Richie / ABI TUCKER as Miranda / JOEL EDGERTON as Will McGill (-April 2002)/ DAVID TREDINNICK as Simon / MICHAEL DORMAN as Christian (from April 2002)

 

SECRETS

ABC / 13x60m-e / 1993

Writers: Tony Morphett, Graeme Koetsveld, Graham Hartley / Executive Producers: Jill Robb / Producer: Bill Hughes / Directors: Mark Callan, Kendal Flanagan, Steve Jodrell

Action adventure series detailing the exploits of a secret government agency called The Firm - specialists in national security issues.

With:- FRANK WHITTEN / MARSHALL NAPIER / BABS McMILLAN / MICHAEL FRY / RACHEL GRIFFITHS as Sarah Foster / TONY POLI

 

SECRET VALLEY

ABC-Grundy / 1x100m-e 26x30m-e / 1980 and 1984

Creator/Producer: Roger Mirams / Music: Bob Young

Children's adventure series. A group of kids manage to turn a run down ghost town into a holiday resort. A TV Movie appeared first in 1980 followed by the series 4 years later.

With:- MAX CULLEN / SHEILA KENNELLY / TOM FARLEY / JOSE CAFFAREL / ALLAN PENNEY / SIMONE BUCHANAN (1980)

 

SEE HOW THEY RUN

UK/AUSTRALIA / BBC1/ABC /  6x25m-e / 1999 5 January - 21 January Tuesday/Thursday 5.10pm

Writer: Al Hunter Ashton, Tim O'Mara / Novel: David McRobbie / Music: Mario Millo / Costume: Lorraine Verheven  / Producer: Josephine Ward / Director: Graeme Harper 

Twice weekly children's thriller serial. Two sisters are plunged into a nightmare world when they are forced into hiding with their parents after their father agrees to give evidence about a powerful drugs baron. An Australian co-production with half of the action taking place in Oz.

With:- KATIE BLAKE as Emma  / BECKY SIMPSON as Nicola / PETER O'BRIEN as Don / ANNE LOOBY as Lily  / VAUGHAN SEVILLE as Sam Foster / CHRISTOPHER SCOULAR as Graham Foster

 

SEE IT MY WAY

ABC / 34x30m-e / 1971-73 black and white

Entertainment? Various well known Australians talk about subjects that matter to them. 

 

SEEN BUT NOT HEARD

7 Network-ACTF / 6x30m-e / 1987

Writer: Steve Spears / Executive Producer: Patricia Edgar / Producers: Susan Campbell, Jeff Peck / Director: Graham Thorburn

Teen educational series looking at different aspects of Australian youth. Presented by Huw Evans. Each edition also featured a mini play touching on issues raised in the episodes. The casts for these included Michele Fawdon, Bill Kerr and Michael Caton.

 

THE SERGEANT FROM BURRALEE

ABC / 1x90m-e / 1961 black and white

Writer: Philip Grenville-Mann / Producer/Director: Raymond Menmuuir

Drama. A sergeant is accused of murdering an Aboriginee.

With:- ALASTAIR DUNCAN / CANDY WILLIAMS / GORDON GLENWRIGHT / MAX MELDRUM / STEWART GINN / REG LYE / DERYCK BARNES

 

SERPENT IN THE RAINBOW

ABC / 4x60m-e / 1973 black and white

Writers: Brian Bell, Michael Jenkins / Producer: Brian Bell / Executive Producer: Alan Burke / Director: Douglas Sharp

Period drama serial about a family feud during the latter part of the 19th century.

With:- KATE FITZPATRICK / DIANA PERRYMAN / ALFRED SANDOR / JEANNIE-MARIE GORDON / SHANE PORTEOUS / KEN WAYNE / JOHN McCALLUM / WALTER PYM 

THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN

ABC / 7x30m-e / 1975

Producer: Alan Burke

Anthology series of plays whose authors were all male Australians. The Producetions were:- 1. The Infant (writer Tony Morphett) with Max Meldrum, Patrick Leehy / 2. The Schoolboy (writer Cliff Green) with Melissa Jaffer, Tony Shepherd / 3. The Lover (writer John Dingwall) with Mark Lee, Margaret Nelson / 4. The Soldier (writer John Martin) with John Waters, Brian James / 5. The Justice (writer Howard Griffiths) with Jacki Weaver, Kevin Miles / 6. Slipper'd Pantaloon (Writer Ted Roberts) with Willie Fennell, Zoe Lake, Betty Dyson / 7. The Last Scene of All (Writer Colin Free) with Colin Croft, Julieanne Newbould

 

SEVEN DAYS

7 Network / x30 and 45m-e / 1964-68 black and white

Producers: Peter Westaway (1964-67) and John Moses (1967-68)

Round up of the weeks news events whose hosts included Peter Westaway, John Bailey, Richard Croll and Peter Martin.

 

SEVEN DEADLY SINS

ABC-Generation / 7x60m-e / 1993

An anthology dealing with the seven deadly sins of the title, the casts included Elizabeth Alexander (Pride), Steve Bisley (Sloth), Vince Colisomo (Sloth),  Colin Friels (Pride), Kym Gyngell (Greed), Gia Carides (Gluttony), Victoria Longley (Lust), Hugo Weaving (Lust), Judy McIntosh (Lust), Robyn Nevin(Sloth)  and Genevieve Picot (Wrath).

 

SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS

ABC-Ethel Turner Productions-AFDC / 10x30m-e / 1973

Writers: Eleanor Witcombe, Barbara Vernon / Novel: Ethel Turner  / Music: Bruce Smeaton / Camera: Peter Hendry / Producer: Charles Russell /  Director: Ron Way

Period drama series. In the 1890's Sydney Captain Woolcot does his best to bring up his seven kids. The series won AFI awards for Teale, Cracknell, the music and the art direction. There was also a film version in 1939 and sections of the production were filmed in Canberra and Moss Vale. The producers had almost given up on going ahead with the show until they came across Elizabeth Alexander for the main role even though she was still at NIDA at the time. 

With:- LEONARD TEALE / PETER HENDRY / ELIZABETH ALEXANDER / BARBARA LLEWELLYN 

 

THE 7.30 REPORT

ABC / x30m-e / 1986-continuing

Weeknight current affairs/news programme  that sees each of the ABC regional stations looking at topics specific to their region. Hosted by Kerry O'Brien. 

 

SEX 

9 Network / 20x60m-e / 1992-93

Executive Producer: Tim Clucas

Lifestyle. Often quite explicit series examining all aspects of sex. Initially shown in a reasonably early evening time slot, season II moved to a late night one. Host of season one was Sophie Lee whilst season two was hosted by Pamela Stephenson. Other regulars on the series included Brian Cade, Dr Kerryn Phelps, Darren McDonald, Patrick Lindsay and Salianne Deckert. 

 

SHADOW OF A PALE HORSE

ABC / 1x80m-e / 1960 black and white

Writer: Bruce Stewart / Producer/Director: David Cahill

Single drama. In New South Wales in the middle of the 19th Century in the flood hit town of Cobar a murder takes place.

With:- BRIAN JAMES / HENRY GILBERT / PETER McCREADIE / LEONARD TEALE / LYNNE MURPHY / THELMA SCOTT / STUART FINCH / KURT LEDESCHER

 

SHADOW OF HEROES

ABC / 1x105m-e / 1961 (black and white)

Writer/Producer/Director: William Sterling

Period single drama. After the end of world war two (and going up to 1956 and the Hungarian Revolution) Julie Rajk has a harrowing time after her husband is taken from her by the communists and then executed.

With:- JUNE BRUNELL / WYN ROBERTS / DON CROSBY / MICHAEL CROSBY

 

SHADOW OF THE COBRA

7 Network-View Pictures / 2x120m-e / 1989

Writers: Michael Laurence, Scott Roberts / Book: Richard Neville, Julie Clarke / Camera: Geoff Burton / Design: Brian Thomson / Music: Chris Neal / Producer: Ben Gannon / Director: Mark Joffe

Thriller serial. American journalist Stephen Carey makes plans to befriend notorious prisoner Charles Sobhraj (The Cobra) in an attempt to write a book about him. Filmed in Thailand, Australia and India.

With:- ART MALIK as Charles Sobhraj / RACHEL WARD as Chris Royston / MICHAEL WOODS as Stephen Carey / MONROE REIMERS / HELEN BUDAY / ARTHUR DIGNAM / TONY BARRY 

 

SHADOWS OF THE HEART

10 Network-SAF Corp / 2x120m-e / 1990 9-10 October

Writer: Deborah Cox / Book: Kangaroo Island Doctor by Dr Joy Seager / Camera: David Foreman / Design: Otello Stolfo / Costume: Jane Hyland / Music: David Hirschfelder / Producer: Jan Marnell / Executive Producer: Jock Blair / Director: Rod Hardy

Period drama serial. Young doctor Kate Munro leaves Sydney to take a job on remote Gannet Island and soon has the islanders up in arms over her 'new fangled' ideas. Filmed in Adelaide and with some sequences filmed on Kangaroo Island.

With:- JOSEPHINE BYRNE as Dr Kate Munro / MARCUS GRAHAM as Vic Hanlon / JEROME EHLERS as Father Michael / BARRY OTTO as Charles Munro / JASON DONOVAN as Alex Fargo / ROBYN NEVIN as Mrs Hanlon / LISA HENSLEY as Jill Hughes / ANNIE BYRON as Rose Flanagan / HENRY SALTER as Bert Flanagan / COLLEEN HEWITT as Emily Fargo / DOUG PARKINSON as Vince Fargo / NADINE GARNER as Lanty Fargo / SHERRIE KRENN as Indy Fargo / BRUCE MYLES as Reg Parsons  

 

SHAFTED

9 Network / x30m-e / 2002

Quiz show broadcast weeknights at 8.30pm. Six players have to decide how much money they want to start the game with (the greediest player is then eliminated before the game begins), the remaining five then answer three rounds of questions, at the end of each round the winner "shafts" somebody off the show until only two players remain, they can choose to divide their winnings or go for the lot, however if one shafts and the other shares the shafter gets everything but if they both shaft they get nothing. Hosted by Red Symons.

 

SHANNON'S MOB

9 Network-Fauna-Norfolk-Shana / 13x60m-e / 1975

Executive Producer: Bob Austin / Producer: Lee Robinson / Writers: Brian Faull, Alan Link, John Martin / Music: Eric Jupp / Camera: John Williams / Directors: Ron Way, Brian Bell, Ian Bennett, Howard Rubie

Action adventure series. One time Scotland Yard cop Dave Shannon takes charge of FIASCO (The Federal Intelligence and Security Organisation). The group could more or less take any action they saw fit and were answerable only to the Prime Minister.

With:- ROBIN RAMSAY / FRANK GALLAGHER  

 

SHARK BAY

Fox-Artist Services / x30m-e / 1996

Creators: Peter Herbert, Ray Kolbe, Stephen Vizard / Music: Steve Blackburn, Yuri Worontschak / Executive Producers: Peter Herbert, Stephen Vizard, Andrew Knight / Producer: Stephen Luby

Comedy. A pastiche of Australian soaps especially Home and Away with the cast featuring many ex-soapies.

With:- DIETER BRUMMER as Brad / ZOE BERTRAM as Kylie / TINA THOMSEN / DOUG PENTY / ROWENA WALLACE as Clarissa / KATE GORMAN / TIRIEL MORA as Justin

 

SHIP TO SHORE

Barron / x30m-e / 1993

Executive Producer: Paul D. Barron / Producer: Gwenda Marsh, Barbi Taylor, Jan Tyrrell / Music: Greg Schultz 

Children's adventure series about a group of kids living on Circe Island as part of a community involved in fishing and also with a satellite communications base stationed there.

With:- Clinton Voss as Kelvin Crump / Jodi Herbert as Julie / Heath Bergersen / Adam Briggs / Benjamin Chow / Joshua Crane / Heath Ledger / Igor Sas as Mr. Knowles / Jemma Thomson 

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