In 19th-century Australia (which looks not unlike the Wild West), one-eyed peeping tom Deadeye Dick (Max Gillies) and cowboy stud Mexico Pete (Serge Lazareff) travel…
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Set in Australia in the totalitarian near future, objectors to the authoritarian rule are labelled ‘social deviants’ and sent to prison camps for re-education and…
This Sydney power-pop band were a pop group with a fresh and squeaky-clean image. With an added touch of respectability – the necktie. 23-year-old drummer…
The Australian TV Week King of Pop awards began in 1967 as an extension of the Go-Set Awards, named after the weekly pop newspaper of…
1 9 7 9 (Australia) 20 x 50 minute episodes This soap opera/kitchen sink drama series from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC TV) told the story…
In terms of style, musicianship and songwriting ability (if not success) Adelaide’s favourite sons The Twilights were the closest thing Australia had to overseas role…
Hard-rocking Australian band U-Turn formed in Sydney in 1976, comprising vocalist Chris Fitzgibbon (who was clearly influenced in the coiffure department by Rod Stewart), guitarists…
Taking their name from the Marvel comic of the same name, Uncanny X-Men was formed in 1981 in Melbourne (Australia), fronted by charismatic lead singer…
1 9 7 5 (Australia) 15 x 30 minute episodes The Unisexers was an Australian series about eleven young people who lived in a commune in an…
1 9 7 5 (Australia) 180 x 30 minute episodes Until Tomorrow was a short-lived, substandard daytime Aussie soap from the Grundy Organisation. Creator Reg…
1 9 7 6 (Australia) 4 x 50 minute episodes Frankie Howerd, master of the lecherous leer and raised eyebrow, took a sojourn down under for…
Brisbane band Ups and Downs played a brand of ethereal, well-crafted, jangly guitar pop that called to mind Australian post-punk icons The Church. The bands’ influences…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 9 (Australia) Melbourne’s ATV-0 remained the leading production house for Australian rock TV shows in the late 60s…
Australian group The Valentines formed in Perth (Western Australia) in mid-1966, bringing together members of three leading local beat groups: Bon Scott and Wyn Milson…
Formed in August 1986, Sydney band Vanilla Chainsaws released their debut single, T.S. (Was It Really Me) b/w Everything, on the local Phantom label in August of the…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 6 4 (Australia) 60 minute episodes This Melbourne-based variety show was produced by HSV-7. Broadcast live at 9.30 pm…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 8 7 (Australia) 60 minute episodes Debuting in Sydney in October 1972, Variety Italian Style was produced by ATV-0…
1 9 6 8 (Australia) 7 x 20 minute episodes Produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in 1966 but not aired until June and July…
Australian band The Venetians formed in late 1982 when vocalist Rik Swinn arrived in Australia with a 24-track master demo of a song he’d recorded in…
Venus Flight was my first high school band. I formed the band with Tony Smith and Mark Colwell in 1976 over a number of sessions…