1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (Australia) 20 x 10 minute episodes Written by prominent communist author and social realist playwright Frank…
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An intelligent, downbeat coming-of-age film set in a small country town in Australia in 1962. The 15-year-old protagonist Danny (Noah Taylor) suffers heartbreak when the…
This multiracial Australian band (the name is an Australian aboriginal phrase for ‘Mother Child’) blended native and white sounds and sentiments. The group were founded…
Centered around the prolific songwriting skills of singer/guitarist Tim Rogers, You Am I is one of the most successful and internationally admired Australian bands of…
1 9 6 7 (Australia) 26 x 30 minute episodes Based on a 1947 novel by Jon Cleary and adapted and serialised for television by Richard…
Following the success of the 1967 Australian television series of the same name (based on the 1947 novel by Jon Cleary), this feature film version…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 4 (Australia) 60 minute episodes This adult educational series was designed, funded and produced by the Australian Department…
The Young Docteurs formed in Canberra (Australia) in 1978, inspired by the new music movement known as punk rock. Paul Hayward (guitar), Chris Shakallis (vocals),…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 1 (Australia) 1396 x 30 minute episodes The Australian nighttime soapie The Young Doctors debuted at 7.30 pm…
A chap called Yahoo Serious wrote, produced, directed and starred in this Australian spoof biography of Albert Einstein – a naive wild-haired Tasmanian scientist who…
Young Homebuyers hailed from Adelaide, Australia, and pivoted around the songwriting team of Nigel Lawrence and Greg Williams, who met at high school. In their…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 8 0 (Australia) 26 x 60 minute episodes Tired of city life, young Australian veterinarian Peter Ramsay (John Hargreaves)…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 8 8 (Australia) 800+ x 30 minute episodes “Close your eyes, and I’ll kiss you . . .”.…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 4 (Australia) ATN 7 (Australia) presented this long-running daytime show “for the housewife”, with segments on cooking, fashion,…
The Ampol Rally in 1964 was a baptism of fire for an unknown car, newly born, barely christened. It was the Zeta – the lowest…
After working with several Australian bands – most notably Young Modern – during the late 1970s and early 1980s, singer John Dowler formed The Zimmermen…
1 9 8 5 (Australia) 26 x 25 minute episodes Doctor David Mitchell (Peter Curtin) and his children Nick (Steven Jacobson) and Susie (Kate Gorman) live…
When Australian band Zoot moved from their hometown of Adelaide (where they had played as Times Unlimited and Down The Line) to Melbourne in 1968,…