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TOMMY
LEONETTI
7
Network / x60m-e / 1969-70
Variety series
starring the composer, actor and singer Tommy Leonetti, the show mixed
singing, dancing, sketches and big name guests both Australian and
Overseas (the likes of Jack Jones, Diane Horder, Rolf Harris, John
Laws etc). Regulars included a singing/dancing group called The
Tambourine Bay Set. The show only ended because Leonetti went back to
his native America.
TONIGHT
LIVE
7 Network-Media
Arts / 900+ x60m-e / 1990-93
Music: Paul Grabowsky
(1990-92, Sam Lee(1993)
Basically the Late Show with
Letterman transplanted to Australia. This came from Melbourne and was
hosted by Steve Vizard. It offered the same mix of comedy, star guest,
music etc.
TONIGHT
WITH BERT NEWTON
9 Network /
x90m-e / 1984
Producer: Peter Faiman
A night time variety show
headlined by Bert "Moonface" Newton and shown four nights a
week, the show mixed music, chat, guest etc.
THE
TONY HANCOCK SHOW
7 Network /
3x30m-e / 1968
Writers: Hugh Stuckey, Michael
Whale / Producer/Director: Eddie Joffe
The comedy show Tony Hancock
came to Australia to make and the show he was working on when he
committed suicide. Planned as 13 episodes only 3 were completed and
these were shown some time after his death as a 90 minute special.
With:- TONY HANCOCK / DON
CROSBY / GLORIA DAWN
TOP
MATES
ABC /
5x60m-e / 1979
Writers: Anne
Brooksbank, Margaret Kelly / Music: Mark Edmondson / Producer: Noel
Price / Executive Producer: John Croyston / Director: Chris Thomson
Drama serial. Brett
Towers and Paul Jackson, a pair of 11 year olds, run away from home
and take refuge in an empty house, the pair resort to stealing to keep
themselves fed.
With:- ADAM GARNETT /
RAY MEAGHER / GERARD NEEDHAM / TESSA MALLOS / ANGELA GAUCI / MICHAEL
McGLINCEY
TOP
OF THE CLASS
ABC / x30m-e /
1959 black and white
Producer: Bruce Webber
A children's general knowledge
knockout quiz show in which 16 school teams competed. Presenters were
Professor Alan Stout and then Bruce Beeby. Gina Eviston was score
mistress.
TOP
OF THE TOWN
9 Network /
x60m-e / 1961 black and white
Producer: Norman Spencer
Lavish (for the time) variety
show featuring both overseas and local talent. The shows came
alternately from Sydney and Melbourne. Host was Jeffrey Lenner and
regulars included Buster Fiddes, Vicki Hammond and Len Lowe.
TOP
OF THE WORLD
ABC-Thames-WPBT
/ 13x30m-e / 1982
Producers: Malcolm Morris,
Barry Crook
Ingenious quiz show using
satellite link ups to pit teams from Australia, England and the US
against each other. Top prize was a vintage Rolls Royce. Hosted from
London by Eamonn Andrews.
TORQUE
ABC / x30m-e /
1974-77 and 1980
Producers: Bruce Buchanan,
Brian Adams (1980) / Theme Music: Grahame Bone, Rory O'Donaghue
Motoring themed magazine show
hosted by Peter Wherrett and Sue Ranson.
TOTALLY
WILD
Ten Network /
x30m-e / 1993-continuing
Children's wildlife series
based on a UK original travelling all over Australia and beyond
in search of animals. Initially hosted by Tim Bailey and Linda
Kilpatrick other presenters have included Faye De Lanly, Hayley
Chapman and Shae Brewster.
A
TOUCH OF REVERENCE
ABC /
3x60m-e / 1974 black and white
Writer: Charles Stamp
/ Design: Gary Hansen / Music: John Sangster / Executive Producer:
Eric Taylor / Director: Carl Schultz
Drama serial.
Episodes in the life of a troubled Anglican minister.
With:- PETER
COLLINGWOOD / GRAHAM ROUSE / BEN GABRIEL / HELEN MORSE / PETER SUMNER
/ WENDY HUGHES
TOUCH
THE SUN
ABC-Australian
Children's Television Foundation-Revcom / 6x95m-e / 1988
Executive Producer:
Patricia Edgar
An anthology series
of 6 feature length children's dramas made to mark Australia's
bicentennial year. The stories were:- 1. Top Enders / 2. Princess Kate
/ 3. Peter and Pompey / 4. The Gift / 5. Devil's Hill / 6. Captain
Johnno.
TOWARDS
2000
ABC / x30m-e /
1981-87
Creator/Producer:
Lloyd Capps
Science
advancement type show looking at the latest breakthroughs in science
and technology, based on the UK show Tomorrow's World. Hosts included
Sonia Humphrey, Carmel Travers, David Travers, Jeff Watson and Iain
Finlay. The 7 Network took the idea (and quite a few of the people
involved in this show) and turned it into the very popular Beyond
2000.
TOWARDS
THE YEAR 2000
9 Network /
x30m-e / 1976
Magazine show
taking a look at the latest advancements in science and technology.
THE
TOWER
ABC / 1x75m-e /
1965 black and white
Writer: Hal
Porter / Producer/Director: Christopher Muir
Period drama. In
Hobart in 1850 a well to do arrogant Englishman demands that his
daughter marry for position, his stepson then decides to sort things
out.
With:- KEITH LEE
/ ANNE CHARLESTON / MARY WARD / JUDITH ARTHY / ANDREW GUILD
TOWN
AND COUNTRY
ABC / x30m-e /
1962-66 black and white
Producers: Jim
Allan, John Cockcroft
Magazine show
looking at agricultural stories of interest not only to rural areas
but cities as well. Hosts were Geoff Say (1962), John Barclay
(1963-64), Tony Fiennes (1965-66).
A
TOWN LIKE ALICE: See Nevil
Shute's A Town Like Alice
TRAD
PAD: See Just Jazz
TRACKS
OF GLORY
7
Network-Barron Films-Australian Film Finance Corporation / 2x90m-e /
1992
Writer: Tony Morphett
/ Book: Major Taylor Down Under by Jim Fitzpatrick / Camera: Julian
Penney, Ross Berryman / Design: George Liddle / Costume: Ross Major,
Victoria Dobson / Producers: Damien Parer, Paul D. Barron / Executive
Producer: Paul D. Barron, Des Monaghan / Director: Marcus Cole
Period drama serial.
In the early part of the 20th century two men, Australian Don Walker
and black American Major Taylor are determined to become champion
cyclists.
With:- PHIL MORRIS as
Major Taylor / CAMERON DADDO as Don Walker / RICHARD ROXBURGH as Hugh
D. McIntosh / NICHOLAS EADIE as Floyd MacFarland / JUSTINE CLARKE as
Kate O'Brien / JOAN SYDNEY as Mrs Walker / BRETT CLIMO as Jonathon
Dodds / SCOTT BURGESS as Pat Callaway / JOHN EWART as Syd Melville /
JANET MacLACHLAN as Mrs Morris / ROBERT VAUGHN as Mr Morris / RENEE
JONES as Daisy Taylor / RODNEY BELL as Iver Lawson / JOHN CLAYTON as
Mr Campbell / CELINE O'LEARY as Mrs McIntosh
TRANSWORLD
TOP TEAMS
ABC-BBC /
20x30m-e / 1967-68 black and white
Producers: Ron
May, Bill Wright (BBC)
A teen quiz show
in which champions from the UK version of Top of the Form and the
Australian equivalent did battle against each other. Hosted by
Geoffrey Wheeler and Bill Salmon.
TREASURE
ISLAND
7 Network /
8x60m-e / 2000
Reality style game show in
which 16 Australians are left stranded on an island with minimal food
and water, they were searching for buried treasure and only one could
win.
TRIBE
2x120m-e / 1999
Executive Producers: Bruce Gordon, David Rouse, Tom Parkinson /
Producer: Jock Blair / Director: George Miller / Writer: Jock Blair
Thriller serial. A small group of tourists board an old sailing boat, The Sea Tramp, for a tropical island-hopping cruise through a largely overlooked corner of Micronesia. It should have been the holiday of a lifetime but five days from port they rescue
Minh-Tam, a young Vietnamese woman from her sinking fishing trawler. As they attempt to outrun
Minh-Tam's attackers, a fire breaks out and the boat sinks. Only a handful of the crew and passengers survive the twin perils of pirates and a fire to reach an uninhabited island that is too dangerous to live on and too dangerous to leave.
(Above taken from a press release).
With:- Antonio Sabato Jnr, Craig McLachlan, Joanna Cassidy, Rachel Blakely, Nadine Garner,
Ling-Hsueh Tang, Paul Leyden, Beverley Dunn, Thaao Penghlis, Tayler Kane
TRIBUTE
TO ANZAC
7
Network / 1x60m-e / 1971 (Broadcast: Saturday 24 April / 7.30pm)
A look at various
aspects pf the second world war with particular regard to the 6th
Division and the R.A.N.
THE
TRUCKIES
ABC (
A segment of the show A Big Country) / 1x30m-e / 1970 (Broadcast:
Thursday 9 April / 8.30pm)
Producer: John Mabey
/ Director: Brian Todd
Documentary/ Ron
Iddon takes a look at the world of the long distance truck driver -
his industry, his work and his importance in a large and growing
industry.
THE
TRUCKIES
12x30m-e
/ 1978
Theme Music: Maggie
by Ken Brumby
Drama series. Stories
of trucker Chris as he travelled the highways of Australia, although
he mainly seemed to be in the Melbourne area, the time he spent apart
from his wife Carol put an inevitable strain on their marriage.
With:- MICHAEL
AITKENS as Chris / COLLEEN HEWITT as Carol / JOHN EWART / JOHN WOOD
THE
TRUE BELIEVERS
ABC-Roadshow
Coote and Carroll / 8x60m-e / 1988 June - July
Writers: Bob Ellis,
Stephen Ramsey / Idea: Matt Carroll / Design: Geoff Wedlock / Costume:
Jolanta Nejman / Music: William Motzing / Producer: Stephen O'Rourke /
Executive Producers: Matt Carroll, Sandra Levy / Director: Peter Fisk
Period drama serial.
Nine years (1945-54) in the political life of Australia, taking in the
careers of three prominent politicians, Labour Prime Minister
(1945-49) Ben Chifley and his deputy Doctor H.V. Evatt and Liberal
Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
With:- ED DEVEREAUX
as Ben Chifley / SIMON CHILVERS as 'Doc' Evatt / JOHN BONNEY as Robert
Menzies / VALERIE BADER as Mary Alice Evatt / TRACY MANN as Tess Ross
/ JOAN BRUCE as Pattie Menzies / MALCOLM ROBERTSON as Idris Williams /
HAROLD HOPKINS as Edgar Ross / NICK TATE as Les Hayden / RON BLANCHARD
as Arthur Calwell / GARY FILES as Fred Daly / RAY MEAGHER as Tom Burke
/ DANNY ADCOCK as Lloyd Ross
THE
TRUE BLUE SHOW
7- Gemini Prod
/ 13x50m-e / 1973-74 black and white
Creators/Producers: Robert
Bruning, Michael Lawrence
A comedy sketch show created
by the team from The Godfathers sitcom. The cast included Sue Walker,
John Derum, Gerry Gallagher and Emma Gray.
TULLY
ABC-Insignia /
1x85m-e / 1974
Writer: Ian Stuart Black, John
Cameron / Music: Pat Aulton / Producer/Director: James Gatward
Crime thriller. English
private investigator Tully attempts to discover the whereabouts of a
haul of stolen art. A telemovie pilot for a series that never emerged.
With:- ANTHONY VALENTINE as
Tully / KEVIN MILES / HENRI SZEPS / JOHN STANTON / JACK THOMPSON /
NOELINE BROWN / BARBARA NIELSEN / TONY BARRY / BRUNO LAWRENCE
TURNING
ON
10-Aztec /
325x30m-e / 1969 black and white
Producer: Godfrey Phillip
Melbourne based daily pop
music show hosted by John Burgess.
TURNING
POINT
ABC / 1x75m-e /
1960 black and white
Writer: Denys Burrowes /
Camera: Frank Parnell / Producer/Director: Raymond Menmuir
Crime thriller. A small
time crook (hiding out in a small Alice Springs town) takes a woman
hostage when it looks like the police are closing in on him.
With:- ROD MILGATE / BENITA
HARVEY / BEN GABRIEL / DERYCK BARNES / JANNE COGHLAN / TOM FARLEY /
REG LYE
TUSITALA:
THE TELLER OF TALES
ABC-Portman
/ 6x60m-e / 1986
Writer: Peter Yeldham
/ Camera: Peter Hendry / Design: Laurie Johnson / Costume: James
Murray / Music: Bruce Smeaton / Producer: Ray Alchin / Executive
Producers: Chris Muir, Ian Warren / Director: Don Sharp
Period drama serial.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the famed author, spends his last four years
in the South Pacific area of Western Samoa, garnering for himself the
nickname Tusitala (The Teller of Tales).
With:- JOHN McENERY
as Robert Louis Stevenson / ANGELA PUNCH McGREGOR as Fanny van de
Graff Osborne / JULIE NIHILL as Mrs Belle Strong / TODD BOYCE as Lloyd
/ RAY BARRETT as Harry Moors / DOROTHY ALISON as Maggie / JOHN GREGG
as Cusack-Smith / NORMAN KAYE as Rev. Clarke
TV1
CASH TRIVIA
TV1-Foxtel
(Pay TV) / 13x30m-e / 2001
Interactive quiz show
in which viewers watching at home could phone in and answer questions
that appeared on the screen, the top prize was a $10,000. Hosted by
Tony Barber. The questions were all TV TRivia based.
TV
SPELLS MAGIC
Ten 10
/ 1965
A large
scale variety show made to mark the opening evening of the TEN 10
channel.
TWELFTH
NIGHT
ABC
/ 1x85m-e / 1966 black and white
Writer:
William Shakespeare / Music: Richard Connelly /
Producer/Director: Ken Hannam
William
Shakespeare comedy of mistaken identity in a stilted
studio set production.
With:-
HELEN MORSE / JUDITH FISHER / ROGER CLIMPSON / MARK
McMANUS / DONALD MacDONALD / LOLA BROOKS / ALEXANDER HAY
/ JOHN GREGS
THE
TWELVE POUND LOOK
ABC
/ 1956 black and white
Producer:
Paul O'Loughlin
Drama
based on the play by J.M. Barrie which has the honour of
being the first Australian produced TV Drama. Broadcast
live on the opening night of Channel 2 on 5 November
1956. The production cost some 335 pounds 4 shillings
and 7 pence.
TWENTY
FOUR HOURS
10-Transmedia
/ x30m-e / 1974 black and whie
Weeknight
current affairs show hosted by John Bailey. The show
flopped dramatically.
TWENTY
GOOD YEARS
ABC
/ 20x50m-e / 1979
Creator:
Sandy Ringer / Producer: Keith Wilkes / Music: Brian May
Period
drama series following the Jewish Fielding family
through the years 1956 top 1979. The family lived in
Melbourne and each episode dealt with a different year.
With:-
HAROLD HOPKINS / ANNE PENDLEBURY / JOHN MURPHY / SANDY
GORE / JOHN DIEDRICH / JULIA BLAKE / JONATHAN HYDE /
LEILA HAYES / ANNE PHELAN ./ ANNE CHARLESTON / MICHAEL
CARMAN / GARY DOWN / PETER CUMMINS
THE
$20 CHALLENGE
10
Network / x60m-e / 2000 (First Episode: Sunday 6 August /
7.30pm)
Writer:
Tim Bailey
Gameshow
hosted by Tim Bailey with three Australians trying to
survive for three days in a foreign city with nothing but
twenty dollars to their name.
TWISTED
12x30m-e
/ 1997
Executive
producer: Bryan Brown
An
anthology series of scary stories 'ala' The Twilight Zone. Each
edition was introduced by Bryan Brown. Guest stars included the likes
of Kimberley Davies and so on.
THE
TWO OF US
9
Network / 1x60m-e / 1970 (Broadcast: Friday 16 January / 8.00pm)
A music
based variety special starring the husband and wife team of Jackie
Trent and Tony Hatch (composers of the theme tunes for both Crossroads
and Neighbours). Guests were Don Lane, Marlene Atcheson, Al Styne, The
Two of Each, The Claire Poole Singers and the Ross Coleman Dancers.
Songs performed included Thank You For Loving Me, I KNow a Place, The
Look of Love, Color My World and Call Me.
THE
TWO RONNIES IN AUSTRALIA
9
Network / 6x50m-e / 1987
Producer:
Brian Morelli
Comedy.
Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker transport their BBC sketch show to
Australia, performing many of their classic sketches as well as
including some new material.
TYPHON'S
PEOPLE
Beyond /
2x120m-e / 1993
Executive
Producers: Dorothee Pinfold, Michael Caulfield / Producer: Dave Gibson /
Director: Yvonne MacKay
Drama. In
the shadowy world of genetic research some secrets can be worth more
than life Itself. just as he is about to unveil his results, scientist
David Typhon is assassinated. International powers zero in on his
closely-guarded research station in remote New Zealand. Half a world
away, Cato Macgill is irresistibly drawn to trace the threads which link
him, body and soul to Typhon's bizarre experiment. Who are these perfect
children these eerily perfect people? What sinister powers do they
possess? And how is he connected to them? Aided by the beautiful and
mysterious Maia, Macgill sets out on a deadly quest to uncover the
haunting truth about Typhon's People.
With:-
ALFRED MOLINA / SOPHIE LEE
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