1 9 8 5 (Australia) 10 x 25 minute episodes This 10-part historical drama – based on Margaret Paice’s Depression-era books Colour in the Creek and…
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This satire on the Australian dream – the idea that everyone is entitled to a piece of God’s own country on which to build their…
Filmed in Adelaide, the Australian film The Fourth Wish is the story of a 12-year-old boy dying of leukaemia which had already been told as…
1 9 8 0 (Australia) 6 x 25 minute episodes An elderly man named Charlie Reeves (Alwyn Kurts) recalls his teenage years in a seaside town…
1 9 8 2 (Australia) 10 x 55 minute episodes This all-but-forgotten 10-part drama series from Australia’s ABC debuted on 24 August 1982 and chronicled the…
This made-for-TV movie from the Australian ABC was a wry, rich and intensely Australian comedy – full of expressions such as dunny, galah, cobber, bludger,…
1 9 7 8 (Australia) 4 x 60 minute episodes This four-part miniseries from Australia’s ABC-TV was set in Sydney between 1936 and 1975 and traced…
Set in Sydney, Australia, in an early 1980s world of parties, live music, casual sex, unemployment, drink, drugs, wankers, posers and spongers, a group of…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 13 x 30/40 minute episodes The Real Thing, produced by Australia’s Channel 2 (ABC), was…
Australian police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort Kath (newcomer Lydia Miller), a young Aboriginal woman, from Sydney…
The pop-top drink can was invented in the early 1970s by Australian designer Mike Debenham, working with the steel company BHP to help eliminate traditional ring-pull…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 25 minute episodes This long-running Aussie game show from HSV-7 – produced by Australian game show…
1 9 9 7 6 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 9 9 (Australia) 7 x 30 minute episodes This comedy series from the Australian…
This Australian made-for-television movie – produced in 1977 by Reg Grundy and aired on Channel Seven in June 1979 – opens “somewhere in England” with…
1 9 9 6 (Australia) 7 x 30 minute episodes Josephine Donnelly (Genevieve Lemon) is a 30-something single white female who shares her home with flatmate…
1 9 9 6 – 1 9 9 8 (Australia) 12 x 25 minute episodes This SBS (Australia) comedy featured bankrupt landlord Mike (Chris Haywood) and…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 7 9 (Australia) 12 x 50/45 minute episodes Marcia Hines Music premiered on Australia’s ABC on Saturday 11 March 1978,…
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1 9 8 8 (Australia) 4 x 60 minute episodes This four-part miniseries for children from Australia’s Channel Nine centred around the titular boy – a…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 8 (Australia) Alexander Bunyip first appeared on Australian television in 1979 in a weekday afternoon programme called…
