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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 3 Mins Read

    Class of ’74/Class of ’75

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    290 x 30 minute episodes

    Debuting in 1974, this Australian drama serial about the students and staff of Waratah High School was made by the Grundy Organisation for Channel Seven, Sydney, and aired five nights a week, complete with catchy theme tune from rocker Brian Cadd.

    By concentrating on the older kids and the teachers, parents and other adult figures, Grundy’s were amongst the first to recognise that a young segment would be a vital part of the overall audience for soap opera.

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    Class of ’74 had the usual set of changing relationships between teachers and students, although in 1974 it featured an illicit, but never explicit, relationship between a shy schoolboy and the headmaster’s wife.

    The show continued the following year, updating itself to Class of ’75.

    The series featured veteran actor Leonard Teale as the headmaster, Charles Ogilvy. By this time he was showing his age after a long innings in Homicide. The deputy head was played by English actor John Hamblin, who is more familiar as a Play School presenter.

    The cast also included Gordon Glenwright (pictured in overalls above) as the school handyman, Hubbard. He never seemed to do any work but occupied a spot under the stairs where he sucked on a pipe as everyone spoke about what they did or intended to do.

    In lead-up publicity, the show was hyped for its sexiness, despite being set for a pre-8.30 pm timeslot.

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    The programme did particularly well in Australia in its first year, sandwiched between the 7:00 news and quiz show The Great Temptation on Channel Seven. Episodes 1 – 191 were in black and white and episodes 192 – 290 in colour.

    As a 13-year-old boy I found the show a veritable feast of lovely girls – especially Carla Hoogeveen as leggy love-struck Julie Armstrong, Abigail as Angelique, Briony Behets as Jorja, Megan Williams as Ann Watson, and my all-time fave at the time, Anne Lambert (as Peggy ‘the Iceberg’ Richardson) – later to find fame in seminal Aussie film Picnic At Hanging Rock (1976).

    TRIVIA
    Many of the exterior shots in Class were filmed at St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, in Sydney.

    Ann Watson
    Megan Williams
    Nora Hayes

    Barbara Llewellyn
    Julie Armstrong
    Carla Hoogeveen
    Barry Collins
    John Deidrich
    Peggy Richardson
    Anne Lambert
    Jorja Jones
    Briony Behets
    Jane Potter
    Angela Punch
    Angelique Dupree
    Abigail
    Tom Carter
    Marty Rhone
    Mary Dunstan
    Jeanie Drynan
    Charles Ogilvy
    Leonard Teale
    Tony Bianco
    Adrian Bernotti
    Dennis Braithwaite
    Peter Bensley
    Evie
    Gaynor Sterling
    Sue Taylor
    Joanne Samuel
    Gary Evans
    Vince Martin
    Sam Wandsworth
    Patrick Ward
    Hubbard
    Gordon Glenwright
    Mike
    Terry Peck
    Donald Blair
    John Hamblin
    Maureen Blair
    Janet Kingsbury
    Greg Simpson
    Christopher Cummings
    Peter Cooper
    Jeremy Chance
    Faith Adam
    Anne Charleston
    Loretta Day
    Bronwyn Winter
    Father Paul Kennedy
    Alan Lander
    Glen Turner
    Chuck Danskin
    John Ward
    Kevin Wilson
    Graham Blair
    Gregory Apps
    Tim
    Chris Benaud
    Dean Howard
    Greg Bepper
    Gina Ferrari
    Peta Toppano

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