Troubled Sydney medical student Ross (Peter Phelps) decides to head north after encountering trouble with the police and a bikie gang who look like ridiculous…
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1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 9 (Australia) Melbourne radio announcer Brian Naylor began hosting a children’s talent program called Swallow’s Juniors on…
Instead of becoming a rock star, Perth-born Brian Cadd could have become a champion tennis player. At the age of ten, his mother offered him…
1 9 9 1 (Australia) 6 x 50 minute episodes The 1960s was a time of revolution, not least for women who were seeking (and winning)…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) This Australian hour-long music show – the replacement for Six O’Clock Rock – was broadcast live from…
Sydney band Buffalo was one of Australia’s pioneering heavy rock outfits, and by virtue of the band’s appearance on the Vertigo label (they were the…
1 9 9 7 – 1 9 9 8 (Australia) 26 x 25 minute episodes Blustering Aussie grouch Ted Bullpitt (Ross Higgins), first seen on The…
1 9 8 7 – 2 0 0 4 (Australia) 686 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on Saturday 12 September 1987 on TCN9, this long-running Aussie…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 8 7 (Australia) Australia’s Channel Nine aired this hour-long daily magazine-style show for children, presented by Rob (Robin…
In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid in an inner-city pub after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She…
Cam-Pact started as a Tamla Motown/Stax soul group in April 1967, before progressing through teenybopper and psychedelic stages and on to heavy blues. The band…
Formed in 1987, Australian band Candy Harlots drew inspiration from The New York Dolls and Mötley Crüe to deliver hard-edged rock & roll with lots of…
1 9 8 3 (Australia) 26 x 5 minute episodes British writer and illustrator Grange Calveley was renowned for creating the innovative children’s television series Roobarb,…
1 9 8 5 (Australia) 55 x 30 minute episodes This Australian children’s show featured the titular Captain – a large, fluorescent-pink bird with prominent white…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 2 (Australia) 60 minute/30 minute episodes (weekdays) 120 minute episodes (Saturdays) “Ahoy there, Shipmates!” Bedecked in seaman’s clothes…
From his first appearance in the surfing newspaper Tracks, in 1973, Captain Goodvibes was a major hit with young Australian readers. The “pig of steel”…
This group was something of an Australian institution – which started out playing to hippies and found itself playing for punks. In its various incarnations, it was a jug…
1 9 7 9 (Australia) 30 minute episodes Carrots followed the trials of nine people who had to put together a children’s television show called The Funny…
Peter Weir achieved a career-high as the Oscar-nominated director of The Truman Show (1998). His directorial debut, however, could not be more different from films such…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (Australia) 184 x 50 minute episodes A legal historical series produced by Crawford Productions in Australia. After…