Ralph Strasser Ralph Strasser i(A145400 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon In Your Dreams Kym Goldsworthy , Julie Miller , John Armstrong , Tim Gooding , ( dir. Ralph Strasser ) Australia : Southern Star Entertainment , 2013-2014 6348552 2013 series - publisher film/TV children's

'Australian teenage twins Samantha and Ben Haselton discover what ‘culture shock’ is all about when they spend the summer with some eccentric, aristocratic and accident-prone relatives who live in a remote German castle.'

1 form y separately published work icon A gURL's wURLd Emma's Chatroom; Emm@’s Ch@troom; Cyber Girls John Armstrong , Shelley Birse , Kym Goldsworthy , Noel Price , Sue Hore , Jörg Reiter , Katya Kittendorf , ( dir. Ralph Strasser ) Sydney Singapore : Southern Star Entertainment Southern Star Singapore , 2011 Z1842876 2011 series - publisher film/TV children's science fiction

Three students (one Australian, one German, and one Singaporean) become close friends while studying at a Singaporean boarding school. Disappointed by their inevitable separation at the end of the school year, they are delighted when a fortuitous combination of mobile phones, computers, and a thunderstorm transports them bodily into an Internet chatroom and, from there, into each others' houses. The three spend their days moving freely between Australia, Singapore, and Germany.

The program's official website describes it as 'a vibrant, engaging, contemporary comedy-drama aimed at "tweens" throughout the world.'

Source: Official website (http://www.agurlswurld.com/about/). (Sighted: 23/2/2012)

1 form y separately published work icon Snake Tales Brendan Luno , Anthony Watt , Alix Beane , Sam Carroll , Doug MacLeod , Mark Shirrefs , Kris Mrksa , ( dir. Daniel Nettheim et. al. )agent Australia : Westside Film & Television Nine Network , 2009 Z1881830 2009 series - publisher film/TV young adult fantasy

Two girls from opposite sides of the world are forced to learn to live together on a snake farm in a remote and possibly mystical area of the Australian outback. Though superficially the program is a 'clash of cultures' narrative in which the British Skye and the Australian Tiger have to come to terms with one another and with their life on the snake farm, it incorporates such fantastic elements as the breeding of brand new species of snakes, snakes suddenly growing to enormous size, and teenage werewolves.

1 form y separately published work icon Blue Water High John Armstrong , Shelley Birse , Ellie Beaumont , Kristen Dunphy , Chris Hawkshaw , Sarah Smith , David Ogilvy , Kym Goldsworthy , Noel Price , Merilyn Slade , Chris Phillips , ( dir. Ralph Strasser et. al. )agent Australia : Southern Star Entertainment , 2005-2008 Z1881687 2005-2008 series - publisher film/TV young adult

'Seven 15 year-old surfers have been selected from around Australia and overseas to take part in an intensive 12-month residential school program at Blue Water High. At the beachside school they join other pupils in a normal year's academic work as well as receiving special coaching in surfing. At the end of the year, two of the seven will qualify to surf the pro-circuit and win a three-year sponsorship contract. The series is a race into the finals for the wild card, a race to get through the year, and a race to grow up. The seven teens, forced to live, study and train together—at the same time become best friends and greatest competitors.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 20/8/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon Snobs Graeme Koetsveld , Kym Goldsworthy , Mark Shirrefs , John Armstrong , Chris Kunz , Neville Brown , Peter Gawler , David Phillips , Jennifer Mellet , Nick Wilson , Paul Leadon , ( dir. Ralph Strasser et. al. )agent Sydney : Southern Star Entertainment Nine Network , 2003-2004 7496777 2003 series - publisher film/TV children's

'Set in the picture-postcard community on Sydney's northern beaches, SNOBS is the story of unlikely friends - Abby, the daughter of a wealthy, middle class traditional family and Marian, a boy from a group of modern day nomads who have come to be known as Ferals - the arrival of whom upsets the peace of the community and is the catalyst for conflict, adventure and intrigue.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon Don't Blame the Koalas Don't Blame Me Noel Price , Geoff Newton , Kym Goldsworthy , Simon Hopkinson , John Armstrong , John Thomson , John Benson , Christine Kunz , Nick Wilson , ( dir. Kevin James Dobson et. al. )agent Australia : Southern Star Entertainment , 2002-2003 7392193 2002 series - publisher film/TV children's

'In England a recently bereaved widow and her two children discover that they've inherited a property in Australia. With some reluctance they head to Australia to claim their inheritance only to discover that the profitable sheep station they've imagined is in fact a rather out of the way wildlife park full of Australian native animals. What's more it has human occupants as well - a distantly related trio of grandchildren who have been bequeathed lifelong rights to live on the property. As well, there's an Australian born Vietnamese animal handler who's somehow the only one who has real expertise in dealing with native Australian animals.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 23/5/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Li'l Horrors Ray Boseley , Glen Dolman , Annie Fox , Robert Greenberg , Peter Hepworth , Brendan Luno , Clare Madsen , David Phillips , David Rapsey , Hugh Stuckey , Penelope Trevor , Anthony Watt , Kevin Nemeth , Beverley Macdonald , Jamie Forbes , Meg Mappin , Chris Anastassiades , Adam Todd , Nancy Groll , ( dir. Chris Langman et. al. )agent Australia : December Films , 2000 Z1856886 2000 series - publisher film/TV children's humour horror

A live-action puppet show, Li'l Horrors followed the misadventures of the students at a school run by Morbidda Bates, a retired horror-film actress. The students included examples of key monsters from horror films: vampires, Frankenstein's monster, gorgons, mummies, zombies, werewolves, and swamp creatures.

According to December Films' press release for the series:

Li'l Horrors is a children's puppet sitcom specifically produced for the 5-8 year old age group. This is an age group who are currently not well catered for. Much programming is made for pre-schoolers and for 9 year olds and above. Li'l Horrors is created for this in between age group. It does not talk down to its audience or aim over its head. It is, however, infused with enough wit and off-the-wall humour to engage an even wider audience. Aimed well at [its] target audience, it is modern, slick, sly, funny and irreverent.

The program also focuses strongly on difference, with each of the characters quite strongly physically different from one another, as well as widely different in behavious and characteristics.

1 form y separately published work icon Pig's Breakfast Chris Anastassiades , Ray Boseley , Cameron Clarke , Kym Goldsworthy , Robert Greenberg , Geoff Kelso , John Lind , Kevin Nemeth , David Ogilvy , Mark Shirrefs , John Thomson , Steve J. Spears , Phil Thomson , Rhett Walton , Lynda Gibson , Holly Lyons , Clare Madsen , Meg Mappin , John Thomson , Chris Anastassiades , Mark Shirrefs , ( dir. Ralph Strasser et. al. )agent Sydney : Southern Star Entertainment Nine Network , 1999-2000 Z1854416 1999-2000 series - publisher film/TV humour children's science fiction

When Rodney and Jessica witness two aliens crash landing on Earth, they undertake to protect them by roping them into joining the world's most unsuccessful children's television program, Kid's Breakfast (nicknamed Pig's Breakfast). Disguised as characters on the program, Grob and Meeba (and their pilot Queegle) are forbidden to reveal their real identities: the media believe them to be eccentric actors who prefer to stay in character (and costume). But the situation is complicated by the fact that the crashed spaceship was a school bus, and Grob and Meeba, although genuine aliens, are also genuine teenagers.

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