David Sale David Sale i(A20132 works by)
Born: Established: Manchester,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1958
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1 y separately published work icon Number 96, Mavis Bramston and Me David Sale , Fremantle : Vivid Publishing , 2013 Z1933393 2013 single work autobiography 'Two shows changed the face of Australian television forever, and rocked the nation to its foundations. And now, the creator of Number 96 and the Executive Producer of The Mavis Bramston Show takes you behind the scenes of these two controversial, outrageously ground-breaking series for a jaunt through the industry's Golden Years.

These two shows flaunted the unmentionable, destroyed taboos, ridiculed sacred cows and dared to deal with subjects hitherto considered too shocking for polite society. They were condemned from the pulpit, slayed by the critcs, yet adored by an immense majority of viewers.

Actor, script writer, producer and author David Sale's career progressed through the theatres and movie studios of London and Hollywood and the turbulent world of Australia's TV industry, and he takes us with him every step of the way. It's a life that began in war-ravaged Manchester, followed the migrant route to Australia, and - against all odds - hit the heights of show business. It can be summed up in four words.

From Blitz to Glitz!' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Careful, He Might Hear You David Sale , Ron Creager (composer), 1999 single work musical theatre
1 2 y separately published work icon Hidden Agenda David Sale , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1996 Z347257 1996 single work novel crime
1 1 y separately published work icon Scorpion's Kiss David Sale , Chippendale : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1994 Z35107 1994 single work novel horror
1 2 y separately published work icon Twisted Echoes David Sale , London : Headline , 1993 Z400003 1993 single work novel
1 3 y separately published work icon Antidote David Sale , Moorebank : Bantam Books , 1991 Z364354 1991 single work novel crime
2 6 form y separately published work icon A Country Practice Graeme Ellis , Anne Brooksbank , Hugh Stuckey , David William Boutland , Moya Wood , Leon Saunders , Luis Bayonas , James Davern , Roger Dunn , David Sale , Peter A. Kinloch , Keith Thompson , Chris Thomson , Tony Morphett , Denise Morgan , Christine McCourt , Gwenda Marsh , David Allen , Christine Schofield , Ro Hume , Galia Hardy , Marcus Cooney , Beverley Phillips , Don J. Townshend , Margaret Mitchell , Michael Aitkens , Patricia Johnson , Sheila Sibley , Margaret Kelly , Judith Colquhoun , Agi Schreck , Mary Wright , John Graham , Ted Roberts , Michael Brindley , Forrest Redlich , Anthony Wheeler , Michael Freundt , Russell E. Webb , Bill Searle , Cliff Green , Foveaux Kirby , Helen Steel , Howard Griffiths , Suzanne Hawley , Terry Larsen , Serge Lazareff , Helen Boyd , Carol Williams , David Worthington , Ray Harding , Bevan Lee , Stephen Measday , Patrea Smallacombe , Shane Brennan , Betty Quin , Graeme Koetsveld , Tim Pye , Jenny Sharp , Bob Herbert , Tom Galbraith , Alister Webb , David Phillips , Andrew Kennedy , Craig Wilkins , Grant Fraser , Sally Webb , Caroline Stanton , Chris Roache , Geoff Newton , David Marsh , Colin Free , Thomas Mitchell , Brett Mitchell , Steve J. Spears , Louise Crane , Ian David , Robyn Sinclair , Micky Bennett , Linden Wilkinson , Terry Fogarty , Michael Cove , Patrick Flanagan , Peter Neale , Peter Lavelle , Julieanne Stewart , Sally Irwin , John Hanlon , David Henry , Jenni Kubler , Jo Barcelon , John Misto , Katherine Thomson , Neville Brown , Margaret Morgan , Susan Bower , Sean Nash , John Lonie , Paul Spinks , Christifor McTrustry , Andrew Kelly , Charlie Strachan , Susan Bower , James Balian , Peter Dann , Michael Harvey , Jerome Ehlers , Jo Horsburgh , Jeff Truman , Rod Rees , Peter Gawler , Linda Aronson , Catherine Millar , Lynn Bayonas , James Davern , ( dir. Igor Auzins et. al. )agent Sydney Australia : JNP Films Seven Network , 1981-1993 Z1699739 1981-1994 series - publisher film/TV

Set in a small, fictional, New South Wales country town called Wandin Valley, A Country Practice focused on the staffs of the town's medical practice and local hospital and on the families of the doctors, nurses, and patients. Many of the episodes also featured guest characters (frequently patients served by the practice) through whom various social and medical problems were explored. Although often considered a soap opera, the series was not built around an open-ended narrative; instead, the two one-hour episodes screened per week formed a self-contained narrative block, though many of the storylines were developed as sub-plots for several episodes before becoming the focus of a particular week's storyline. While the focus was on topical issues such as youth unemployment, suicide, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and terminal illness, the program did sometimes explore culturally sensitive issues, including, for example, the Aboriginal community and their place in modern Australian society.

Among the show's principal characters were Dr Terence Elliott, local policeman Sergeant Frank Gilroy, Esme Watson, Shirley Dean Gilroy, Bob Hatfield, Vernon 'Cookie' Locke, and Matron Margaret 'Maggie' Sloan. In addition to its regularly rotating cast of characters, A Country Practice also had a cast of semi-regulars who would make appearances as the storylines permitted. Interestingly, while the series initially targeted the adult and older youth demographic, it became increasingly popular with children over the years.

1 form y separately published work icon The Unisexers Robert Caswell , David Sale , Johnny Whyte , Anne Hall , Derek Strahan , ( dir. Peter Maxwell ) Sydney : Cash Harmon Television , 1975 Z1812878 1975 series - publisher film/TV

Devised by American screewriter Anne Hall, The Unisexers was a short-lived series that followed the travails of a group of young people collectively running a jeans-making business in a large inner-city house, from the same production company that produced Number 96.

Unlike Number 96, however, The Unisexers ran for only three weeks, five nights a week. According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series,

'Ironically, given that the timeslot had been such an important factor in the success of Number 96, The Unisexers timeslot [prior to the main evening news] in Sydney and Melbourne proved to be a major part of its downfall. Producers and writers felt particularly circumscribed in terms of what they could show and talk about at that time because of the large number of children viewing then'.

The first episode of The Unisexers is available to watch on YouTube (in black and white).

  • Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SYqFbfO4c
  • Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6_tNGKa_A&feature=related
  • Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AGsCMlyb-c&feature=related
  • Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmIpzjK9504&feature=related

(Sighted: 7/10/2011)

1 Some of My Best Friends Aren't Peter Pinne , Don Battye , Ted Agar , John McKellar , David Sale , Peter Duncan , Ted Agar , Stuart Carmichael , James Wallett , Brian Henderson , Dave Fennell , 1973 single work musical theatre revue/revusical

Revue.

1 11 form y separately published work icon Number 96 Lynn Foster , Robert Caswell , David Sale , Ken Shadie , Eleanor Witcombe , Johnny Whyte , ( dir. Peter Benardos et. al. )agent Sydney : Cash Harmon Television , 1972 Z1812749 1972 series - publisher film/TV

A highly successful soap opera, Number 96's permissive and adult tone emerged, in Moran's terms, from 'the atmosphere of censorship liberalisation that had occurred in Australia in the early 1970s, and the intention to screen the serial in a late evening timeslot'. As such, the programme interspersed the domestic and romantic storylines that usually drive soap operas with plots exploring rape, drug abuse, and homosexuality. For example, the long-running character Don Finlayson (played by Joe Hasham) was an openly gay character whose relationships attracted neither censure nor any unusual degree of attention from his neighbours, showing him as unusually (for the time) integrated into a mainstream community.

According to Moran, 'Number 96 moved the Australian television soap opera completely away from its radio predecessor by organising a series of simultaneous storylines with various characters moving in and out of these, the storylines lasting only two to six weeks on air.' Long-running storylines included the 'Knicker Snipper' (a msyterious figure stealing the residents' underwear) and the Pantyhose Murderer (a serial killer).

As the show's ratings began dropping in 1975, various attempts were made to revitalise interest in the series, including killing (or otherwise writing out) long-running characters, increasing the amount of location shooting, and publicising the increased amount of nudity in the show (including both female and--briefly--male full-frontal nudity). Despite this, ratings continued to drop to the point where the show was cancelled in July 1977.

2 y separately published work icon The Love Bite David Sale , London New York (City) : W. H. Allen , 1972 Z400411 1972 single work novel horror
1 form y separately published work icon The Group David Sale , Rosamund Waring , Marcus Cooney , Anne Hall , ( dir. Hugh Taylor ) Sydney : Cash Harmon Television , 1971 Z1812804 1971 series - publisher film/TV humour

A thirteen-episode sit-com from the production company that was shortly to launch soap-opera Number 96.

The premise involves three men and two women who, for purely economic reasons, share a basement flat: Jeremy (who works in television), Mark (a medical student), Bob (an accountant), Jennifer (a university student), and Laura (a model and receptionist).

The program's tension comes from their landlord Tinto, whose prurient distress at the mixed-gender tenancy leads him to attempt various methods of evicting them.

According to Don Storey, on his website Classic Australian Television:

'The Group relies, in classic sit-com tradition, on misunderstandings and misinterpretations of events to generate comedy, which are usually the result of the scatter-brained antics of Laura. There is no underlying social comment, other than the overall theme of not judging by appearances as Tinto does. The sole purpose of The Group is to entertain, and this it does.'

Though The Group was popular with audiences, it was not picked up for a second season for various reasons, including (according to Don Storey) the lack of overseas sales, Bruce Gyngell's departure from the Seven Network, and Cash Harmon Television's planned production of Number 96 for the Ten Network.

1 y separately published work icon Come to Mother David Sale , London : W. H. Allen , 1971 Z400206 1971 single work novel 'Soon it will be possible to put people in deep freeze, and then bring them back. This book is about someone who does...' (Source: the book, p. [1].)
1 1 It's Back Peter Pinne , Don Battye , Bill Harding , Jay McKee , Ian Austin , Ken Shadie , Ken Kennett , Lewis Savage , Ron Sheard , Tony Nicholls , David Sale , Barry Brebner , Betty Brennan , Marion Lemon , 1970 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revue.

1 1 form y separately published work icon The House David Sale , ( dir. Alan Burke ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1966 22799481 1966 single work film/TV

An elderly woman who refuses to leave her house even though it has been bought by developers is visited by a young woman who claims to be fleeing her abusive husband.

1 Every Child's Garden of Revue Peter Pinne , Don Battye , Barbara Angell , David Sale , Robert Walker , Ray Biehler , Ray Kolle , 1964 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revue.

Directed and co-written by Barb Angell, Every Child's Garden of Revue comprised twenty-two items, ranging in topic from advertisements to teenagers, school, and the beach. The Peter Pinne, Don Battye, and Ray Kolle piece, 'A Miracle a Day', is a 'mini-musical spoof' of Rogers and Hammerstein.

The items as indicated in the production program are:

  • 1. 'Opening' (company)
  • 2. 'Where are They?' (company)
  • 3. 'Our Own Delphine' (Barbara and David)
  • 4. 'All at Sea' (Marion)
  • 5. 'On the Hole' (Paul and David)
  • 6. 'Run Rabbit Run' (Barbara)
  • 7. 'Services Rendered' (Marion, David, and Paul)
  • 8. 'Loyal Tour' (David)
  • 9. 'May I Have the Next?' (company)
  • 10. 'Ad Fad' (Marion and Barbara)
  • 11. 'On the Beach' (Barbara, David, and Paul)
  • 12. 'A Miracle a Day' (David, Marion, and Barbara)
  • 13. 'East is West' (Paul)
  • 14. 'Teen Age Mail Bag' (David)
  • 15. 'Building Blocks' (Paul and Barbara)
  • 16. 'Small Talk' (David and Marion)
  • 17. 'Waste Not Want Not' (Paul)
  • 18. 'In a Brown Study' (Marion)
  • 19. 'All Mod Cons' (Barbara and Paul)
  • 20. 'Let's Have a Party' (Marion, David, and Paul)
  • 21. 'School Daze' (Barbara)
  • 22. 'Have Fun, Damn You!' (company).
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