This Australian family comedy – based on British farmer turned teacher and author Dick King-Smith’s book The Sheep-Pig – came out of nowhere to enchant millions around…
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Husky-voiced singer Suze DeMarchi recorded three soft-metal singles in the UK for EMI during the late 1980s, co-writing one of them with Simon Climie of…
1 9 7 1 (Australia) 5 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived Australian comedy series starred John Meillon as Sid Gaye, a lazy and egocentric bachelor…
Melbourne-based Bachelors From Prague formed in 1985 and played an infectious blend of 1940s jazz, 1950s R&B, 1970s funk and salsa. The group became the…
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…
As a rule, Hollywood portrays the mentally disabled as quaint, likeable, quirky and entirely benign people who occasionally say the wisest things. No wait, I’m…
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…
Bakery formed in Perth, Western Australia, in 1970. One of the leading underground groups of their day, they are remembered for their superb debut album,…
Singer/songwriter Brendan Kibble formed The Bam Balams in Sydney in August 1984. The line-up of Kibble, Brad Fitzpatrick (ex-Division 4), Steve Cole and Matt Manchester…
Formed in 1981 in Collie, a dusty mining town south of Perth in Western Australia, The Bamboos met with little success until they made their…
1 9 9 2 – 2 0 0 1 (Australia) 304 x 5 minute episodes “Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs . . .”…
Band of Light was a blues-based group formed in October 1972 in Sydney (Australia) by Phil Key, with bassist Peter Roberts – both of whom…
Phil Manning Guitar, vocals Tony Naylor Guitar Phil Gaunt Bass Tony Buettel Drums Gus Fenwick Bass Peter Roberts Guitar Fran Kelly Bass Peter Curtain Drums…
Australian band Bandicoot was essentially the duo of Mick Fettes (who had recently left Madder Lake) and Shane Bourne (who later became known as a…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 1 9 7 6 (Australia) Bandstand was the longest-running Australian pop television show of its time, and…
1 9 8 9 (Australia) 3 x 90 minute episodes 20-year-old Australian girl Katrina Stanton (Nicole Kidman) has been searching for her father in England when…
1 9 6 4 (Australia) 13 x 30 minute episodes Sisters Joan (Sheila Bradley) and Shirley (Robina Beard) Muggleton inherit a run-down roadside cafe-cum-garage from their…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 39 x 30 minute episodes Live-action adventures with the five-man crew of the 200-ton windjammer Endeavour on Australia’s…
Watching Barry McKenzie Holds His Own today it’s difficult to believe that as a kid I was allowed to show this movie at my high school. The…
1 9 8 8 (Australia) 12 x 25 minute episodes Elly Barton (Olivia Harkin) was a strong-minded, intelligent 11-year-old girl living with her family in an…