Sydney (Australia) band The Wet Taxis was formed in 1977 and issued an album-length cassette called Taxidermy in 1980, featuring Louis Tillett on vocals and keyboards,…
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1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (Australia) 34 x 25 minute episodes This Wild West-style action series was set in Australia in…
Dorrie Evans, the scatty and interfering self-appointed concierge at 96 Lindsay Street, Paddington, was the absolute queen of malapropism on the series Number 96. Proving…
After Australian band The Lighthouse Keepers disbanded in early 1986, Greg Appel and Juliet Ward went on to form The Rainlovers which became Widdershins in…
The Wild Cherries were formed in 1964 by Melbourne University students John Bastow (vocals), Rob Lovett (guitar and vocals), and Les Gilbert (bass). Local bluesman…
1 9 9 7 – 1 9 9 9 (Australia) 60 x 50 minute episodes This ABC drama series went into production in Sydney in July…
In a classic case of pop reincarnation, John Cave (born in 1950) became Johnny Cabe, then William Shakespeare. He then scored two Australian #1 hit…
1 9 8 7 (Australia) 26 x 50 minute episodes This ill-fated comedy/drama series from the Australian Nine Network revolved around two likeable but workshy and…
Mario Milo and Toivo Pilt formed Windchase when their earlier band, Sebastian Hardie (who had released the albums Four Moments and Windchase on Phonogram), broke…
Set in Western Australia, Windrider was promoted as a “romantic action film about windsurfing”. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough windsurfing scenes to justify that claim, and…
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…
On 29 January 1966, a 57-year-old cleaner was brutally slain as she worked alone in the Piccadilly Arcade in Wollongong, NSW (Australia). The mutilation of Wilhelmina…
1 9 7 5 (Australia) 4 x episodes So raise your head high To a burnt sienna sky Of Dapto, Port Kembla and nigh, You may…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 9 0 (Australia) This children’s TV show on Australia’s Seven Network originally aired only in Brisbane. From 1983,…
1 9 8 2 (Australia) 4 x 60 minute episodes Created by writer Sonia Borg and Aboriginal poet and sociologist Hyllus Maris, this four-part Australian…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (Australia) 39 x 30 minute episodes This Australian-produced adventure series revolved around John Stevens (Don Pascoe), the…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) The Australian Channel 9 show World Championship Wrestling featured unlikely looking (and oddly named) stars such as Killer…
White balls, bright uniforms, night matches, batsmen and bowlers paid and acting like celebrities . . . it’s just not cricket! World Series Cricket (WSC),…
Directed by Ned Lander, The Wrong Side of The Road tells the story of two Aboriginal rock bands – No Fixed Address and Us Mob – as they…
X was one of the most notorious bands ever to emerge from the Sydney (Australia) inner-city music scene and among the leading lights of the original…