1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 3 (Australia) 101 x 30 minute episodes This Australian sitcom was broadcast on the Nine Network and starred…
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Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 May 1950, Allison Anne Durbin joined New Zealand’s popular Uncle Tom’s Friendly Road Children’s Choir (a radio and…
During the late 70s/early 80s a small pub in downtown Sydney, called the Sussex Hotel, was the birthplace of the Australian mod revival. When the…
The Allusions were one of the most stylish and inventive of Sydney’s 1960s beat groups. The band issued six singles; Gypsy Woman (March 1966), The…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) Based on the British show It’s a Knockout, Almost Anything Goes featured teams competing against each other…
1 9 7 4 (Australia) 6 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived Australian children’s series from the ABC revolved around university students Andrew (Peter Hepworth) and…
1 9 7 6 (Australia) 13 x 30 minute episodes Alvin Purple was a spin-off from the Australian film of the same name which had been an immense box…
“The problem is, I just can’t seem to avoid sex.” This amiable sex farce follows the exploits of a young Australian man (Graeme Blundell) who…
This feeble sequel to 70s Australian sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973) has the irresistible young Alvin (Graeme Blundell) grinning and baring all as he switches places…
This overwrought Australian drama concerns a mute girl who learns to communicate through song. Traumatised by witnessing the fatal electrocution of her rock star father…
1 9 7 4 (Australia) 6 x 30 minute episodes And The Big Men Fly was the first attempt by the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Melbourne studios…
Alongside Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil and Rose Tattoo, The Angels had a profound effect on the Australian live music scene of the late 70s/early 80s.…
It was the crime that shocked Australia – pretty 26-year-old nursing sister Anita Lorraine Cobby was found brutally murdered in a field at Prospect, in…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This weekly television panel discussion show from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had…
1 9 8 5 (Australia) 5 x 100 minute episodes This 1985 miniseries from the Australian Nine Network followed the lives of a dozen volunteer Australian…
Like a number of Australian musicians who got their start during the late 1970s New Wave movement, The Apartments’ Peter Milton Walsh received more acclaim in Europe…
1 9 8 0 (Australia) 38 x 30 minute episodes (Only 10 went to air) Arcade was Bill Harmon’s swansong in Australian television. Harmon, who had worked…
1960s-influenced band The Arctic Circles played the Melbourne (Australia) independent scene in the mid-1980s. The band’s sound fused garage-punk, psychedelia and tough R&B riffs. The…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 1 (Australia) 16 x 25 minute episodes Taking its lead from a number of British sitcoms that made…
Fifty mighty Argonauts, bending to the oars Today will go adventuring to yet uncharted shores Fifty young adventurers today set forth and so we cry…