Tag: Australia
Odd Angry Shot, The (1979)
When The Odd Angry Shot was released in 1979, it came in for a good deal of misdirected critical flak because it wasn't a different kind...
Patrick (1978)
"He's In A Coma . . . Yet He Can Kill" promised the tagline for the 1978 Australian film Patrick, helpfully establishing both the...
Division 4
1 9 6 9 - 1 9 7 5 (Australia)
300 x 60 minute episodes
Another Australian cop drama from Crawford Productions, Division 4 was originally titled...
Mother Goose
Mother Goose hailed from Dunedin, New Zealand, and were unique for their performances which combined mime, satire, costumes and novelty songs with virtuoso playing.
Honing...
Adventure Island
1 9 6 8 - 1 9 7 2 (Australia)
1140 x 30 minute episodes
Australian series Adventure Island was designed for an audience of young (five...
Poor Man’s Orange
1 9 8 7 (Australia)
This sequel to The Harp In The South was shot simultaneously with the same cast, although it is set three years...
Harp in the South, The
1 9 8 7 (Australia)
3 x 120 minute episodes
This Australian miniseries was set in 1948 in Surry Hills - a poor inner-city suburb of Sydney...
Outsiders, The
1 9 7 6 - 1 9 7 7 (Australia/Germany)
13 x 60 minute episodes
Bushman Charlie Cole (British actor Andrew Keir) and his 21-year-old city-bred...
Spliffs, The
Australian power pop band The Spliffs formed in the North Queensland town of Townsville in 1985.
Their debut single, You Know What They'll Say, was...
Nice ‘n Juicy
1 9 6 6 (Australia)
13 x 30 minute episodes
Nice ’n Juicy was the first home-grown comedy series from ABC Television (Australia). It aired on Thursday...
Bailey’s Bird
1 9 7 7 (Australia)
26 x 25 minute episodes
This Australian-made family adventure series was filmed in Penang and starred Hu Pryce as a retired RAAF...
Silent Reach
1 9 8 3 (Australia)
1 x 120 minute episode
1 x 180 minute episode
Based on a novel by Osmar White, this five-hour miniseries from the Nine Network...
Dave Warner’s From the Suburbs
Dave Warner was born in Bicton, Western Australia, in 1955 and was educated at Aquinas College and the University of Western Australia, graduating with...
Oz – A Rock ‘n’ Roll Road Movie (1976)
An Australian attempt to rework The Wizard of Oz for a mid-1970s youth audience.
Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a local rock...
Long Weekend (1978)
Two middle-class Australians - Peter (John Hargreaves) and his wife Marcia (Briony Behets) - drive out of the city for a long weekend’s camping...
Petersen (1974)
Tony 'Jock' Petersen (Jack Thompson), an electrician and ex-Australian Rules footballer, decides in his 30's to go to university to study English.
Married to Susie...
Sunstruck (1972)
Young Welsh schoolteacher and choral director Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) decides to emigrate to Australia where the New South Wales Education Department invites him...
Torque/Marque
1 9 7 3 - 1 9 8 0 (Australia)
69 x 30 minute episodes
Torque was a no holds barred examination of the automotive industry by Australian motor...
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table
1 9 6 6 (Australia)
39 x 25 minute episodes
The first Australian animation series to be successfully syndicated and sold overseas, Arthur had a distinctly British look and...
Digby ‘Dig’ Richards
Australian singer Digby George Richards was born the son of a policeman in Dunedoo in New South Wales on 12 September 1941.
Digby (or 'Dig'...
