Australia
/ 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
An
action adventure series that cast American Ty
Hardin as sailor Moss Andrews, the show was a
typical late sixties production, shot on film
(with an eye on the international market) and
with plenty of location footage.
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.
The show carried the original title of
"charter boat" and filmed in around
the Sydney Northbeach area, it also has the
distinction of being the first hour long colour
show produced in Australia and had a budget per
episode of anywhere between $50,000 and
$100,000.
Interestingly much of the behind the scenes crew
came from the UK and guest stars were among the
likes of Rowena Wallace, Chips Rafferty, Helen
Morse, Tony Ward and Jacki Weaver.
Cast
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
