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1 form y separately published work icon Always Greener Anthony Ellis , Margaret Wilson , Mardi McConnochie , Marieke Hardy , Andrew Kelly , Tracey Trinder-Doig , Louise Fox , Jutta Goetze , Sue Hore , Jason Herbison , Louise Crane , Philip Dalkin , Bevan Lee , Ysabelle Dean , Glen Dolman , Sarah Duffy , David Hannam , David Phillips , Elizabeth Coleman , Abe Pogos , Boaz Stark , Fiona Wood , Grant Wolf , Chris Bates , ( dir. Scott Hartford-Davis et. al. )agent Australia : Seven Network Southern Star Entertainment , 2001-2003 24553471 2001 series - publisher film/TV
1 6 form y separately published work icon All Saints All Saints : Medical Response Unit Louise Crane , Sally Webb , Charlie Strachan , John Banas , Sarah Walker , Denise Morgan , Christine McCourt , Sean Nash , Philip Dalkin , Peter A. Kinloch , Peter Neale , David Phillips , Chris Roache , Phil Sanders , Sue Hore , Serge Lazareff , Michael Miller , Ted Roberts , Sarah Smith , Lily Taylor , Elizabeth Coleman , Kristen Dunphy , Daniel Krige , Kelly Lefever , Blake Ayshford , Anthony Ellis , Grant McAloon , Annette Moore , David Hannam , Anne Lucas , Christina Milligan , Julie Monton , Grant Fraser , Ro Hume , Cathy Strickland , Susan Bower , Bevan Lee , Margaret Wilson , David Allen , Andrew Ryan , Greg Haddrick , Alexa Wyatt , Michaeley O'Brien , Chris Hawkshaw , Carol Williams , Tracey Trinder-Doig , John Hanlon , Marcia Gardner , Howard Griffiths , Chris Phillips , Katherine Thomson , Bill Garner , Chris Corbett , Peter Gawler , David William Boutland , Lesley Lewis , Fiona Kelly , Hamish Wright , Loraine Rogers , Grace Morris , Megan Herbert , Edwina Searle , Jenny Lewis , John Concannon , Rick Held , Alex Pope , Faith McKinnon , John Hugginson , Bridie O'Neill , Harry West , Tim Pye , Julie Edwards , Sarah Lambert , Jeff Truman , Trent Atkinson , Suzanne Hawley , Graham Richards , Toby Wallace , Sean Nash , Catherine Millar , Kevin Roberts , Sam Meikle , Tim Gooding , Peter Dick , Trent Roberts , Robert Haywood , Clare Atkins , Kim Wilson , Martin McKenna , Shelley Birse , ( dir. Leigh Spence et. al. )agent 1998 Australia : Seven Network Red Heart Entertainment , 1998-2009 Z1571142 1998 series - publisher film/TV

One of Australia's highest rating dramas, All Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama set in the fictional All Saints Western General Hospital in suburban Sydney. The stories originally focused on the nursing staff of Ward 17 run by Nursing Unit Manager Terri Sullivan. It was sometimes referred to as the 'garbage ward' because it took the overflow of patients.

In 2004 Network Seven producers overhauled the series in an effort to increase the show's gradually dwindling audience. They achieved this by closing down Ward 17 and transferring some of the staff to the Emergency Department managed by Frank Campion. Several other new lead characters were also introduced. The changes also saw the storylines begin to focus more on the lives of the doctors and nurses.

Another significant change to the series came in early 2009 when the producers introduced the Medical Response Unit. Central to this development was the helicopter which took doctors to rescue situations outside the hopsital and which in turn brought patients to the All Saints Emergency Department. The show's name was also changed at this time to All Saints: Medical Response Unit. The increased production costs created by having scenes shot on location played a part, however, in the series being cancelled mid-year. The series ended with the Emergency Department and Medical Response Unit teams having a dinner to farewell the last remaining original character, Von Ryan on her final day at All Saints.

All Saints was popular in many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Iran.

1 form y separately published work icon Medivac Adrenalin Junkies Tony Cavanaugh , Everett de Roche , Greg Millin , Adam Todd , Marcia Gardner , Susan MacGillicuddy , Peter McPhee , Peter A. Kinloch , Matt Ford , Anthony Morris , Graham Hartley , Garrett Russell , Keith Aberdein , John Coulter , Tim Pye , John Concannon , Denise Morgan , ( dir. Geoffrey Bennett et. al. )agent Brisbane : Liberty and Beyond Network Ten , 1996-1998 7288690 1996 series - publisher film/TV

'Staff in an emergency department of a large Australian hospital have become addicted to the adrenalin rush they experience while dealing with life and death emergencies.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon Flipper The New Adventures of Flipper Shane Brennan , Sam Carroll , Elizabeth Coleman , Max Dann , Everett de Roche , Annie Fox , Graham Hartley , Peter A. Kinloch , Jason Herbison , Christopher Lee , Susan MacGillicuddy , Greg Millin , Deborah Parsons , Anne Brooksbank , Sue Hore , Yuki Asano , Philip Dalkin , ( dir. Donald Crombie et. al. )agent Australia United States of America (USA) : Tribune Entertainment Village Roadshow Samuel Goldwyn Company , 1995-2000 Z1881834 1995-2000 series - publisher film/TV children's

An American/Australian co-production, this series was a revival of the original 1964 - 1967 series Flipper.

The show's production is sharply divided between seasons one and two on one side and seasons three and four on the other.

Seasons one and two aired in first-run syndication in the US, as American television networks turned away from funding comparatively expensive one-hour dramas in the late 1980s and 1990s. These two seasons were made in Australia and took advantage of local directors and other crew, but, notably, the script-writers were exclusively American (as far as they have been traced).

For seasons three and four, Flipper left first-run syndication and aired in the US on the new network PAX TV (now Ion Television). These two seasons were also made in Australia and directed by Australians, but for the first time, they also used Australian script-writers: of the writers who have been traced for seasons three and four, all of the season three writers and the majority of the season four writers are Australian.

For full information on the script-writers, see the list of episodes on the film details page of this record.

1 form y separately published work icon Glad Rags Trevor Todd , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : Nomad Films Nine Network , 1995 7239881 1995 series - publisher film/TV children's

'GLAD RAGS is about a girl with a vivid imagination who lives with her mother above their costume hire shop. A crooked property developer tries to take over the building but is outwitted.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 11/4/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon Signal One : Bullet Down Under Karl Shiffman , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : Canealian Productions , 1993 7002847 1993 single work film/TV crime detective

'Detective Martin Bullet is in trouble. After killing a young kid in a drug bust, he comes to terms with his conscience by starting a new life in Australia. But life is not as he imagined 'downunder'. Assigned to a tough undercover cop, Jack Moran (described by his colleagues as a 'walking time bomb'), Martin Bullet gets caught up in the explosion of a major drug ring and the choice of walking away.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 6/2/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon The Adventures of Skippy Bevan Lee , Charles Boyle , Dorothy Campbell , Alister Webb , Jennifer Mellet , Graham Foreman , Michael Francis , Anthony Ellis , Kate Henderson , Jonathan Hardy , Greg Millin , Ray Harding , David Worthington , Ysabelle Dean , Greg Haddrick , ( dir. Rob Stewart et. al. )agent Australia : McMahon & Lake , 1992-1993 7385213 1992 series - publisher film/TV children's

A 'second-generation' Skippy, with Ranger Hammond's younger son Sonny grown up and running an animal-based theme park, Habitat, on Australia's Gold Coast, in company with his ten-year-old twins, Jerry and Lou. The theme park is adjacent to a national park, bringing in Ranger Dave as a character, along with Sonny Hammond's housekeeper Thelma and assistant Kate.

1 form y separately published work icon Naked Under Capricorn Peter Yeldham , Nine Network (publisher), ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : Resolution Films Revcom Television Nine Network , 1989 Z1489633 1989 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction

A period drama that focuses on the adventures of Davy Marriner, from being robbed in the desert to teaming up with cattle drover Bluey Dallas.

1 form y separately published work icon Mission : Impossible Cliff Green , Rick Maier , David Phillips , Ted Roberts , Jan Sardi , Billy Marshall-Stoneking , Dale Duguid , Daniel Roberts , Roger Dunn , ( dir. Colin Budds et. al. )agent United States of America (USA) : Paramount Pictures , 1988-1990 Z1888691 1988-1990 single work film/TV adventure science fiction

American revival of the 1966 television program, but filmed in Australia (largely in Queensland), and making extensive use of Australian directors and script-writers: eight of the twenty-two writers and five of the nine directors are Australian. As with the earlier version (and the later film incarnations), the program made extensive use of high-tech gadgetry that often crossed the line from science into science fiction.

1 form y separately published work icon Rock 'n' Roll Cowboys David Young , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : Somerset Film Productions , 1988 Z1864512 1988 single work film/TV science fiction

'Damien Shard is going to rid the world of the demon rock 'n' roll and spread the word of the Lord. Catapulted into the future on his psychotronic alpha sampler, he sets his sights on Mickey La Grange, an unsuspecting sound engineer' (Source: Screen Australia).

1 form y separately published work icon Computer Ghosts Michael McGennan , ( dir. Marcus Cole et. al. )agent Australia : Somerset Film Productions , 1987 Z1829090 1987 single work film/TV fantasy

A comedic fantasy made-for-television film in which a security company conjures up computer-generated 'ghosts', to scare people away from buying certain properties, allowing the company to snap them up at auction for a fraction of their worth. The system works until the appearance, apparently from nowhere, of a mysterious couple.

1 form y separately published work icon Colour in the Creek Sonia Borg , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : PBL Productions Nine Network , 1985 Z976673 1985 series - publisher film/TV children's

Set during the Depression, the story follows a Queensland family who uproot and move to the goldfields after the father hears of a strike.

1 form y separately published work icon Special Squad Cliff Green , Vince Moran , Luis Bayonas , John Upton , Patrick Edgeworth , Philip Dalkin , Everett de Roche , Shane Brennan , Leon Saunders , David Phillips , Kris Steele , Michael Harvey , Vincent Gil , Michael Aitkens , ( dir. Peter Andrikidis et. al. )agent Melbourne : Crawford Productions , 1984 Z1816885 1984 series - publisher film/TV crime detective

An attempt to re-invoke the popularity that police procedurals had enjoyed a decade earlier, Special Squad was the most expensive program produced in Australia up to 1985 (at $150,000 per episode), yet received such lukewarm ratings that Channel Ten chose not to commission a second series.

According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series,

it was good to watch, with expert stunt work and special effects. With well-paced narratives, intelligently and nicely worked out situations and plenty of emphasis on the villains and victims, Special Squad was just as watchable and entertaining as Homicide had been in its last series.

According to Moran, the failure of Special Squad lay both in its difference from and its similarity to Homicide. The novelty (of Australian accents and Australian locations) that had helped make Homicide so successful was no longer in play, and 'the sight of tough men (on both sides of the law) made the program [Special Squad] seem very old-fashioned. In addition, the plethora of other Australian dramas on air at the time gave viewers more than enough alternatives.'

1 form y separately published work icon The Slim Dusty Movie Kent Chadwick , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : The Slim Dusty Movie Pty Ltd , 1984 Z1652710 1984 single work film/TV biography travel

In 1937, on a small dairy farm at Nulla Nulla Creek (three hundred miles north of Sydney), an eleven-year-old boy, David Gordon Kirkpatrick, decided to change his name and become a country music star. The Slim Dusty Movie is 'the story of a man who believed in a dream that he had and the woman who stands by his side. The war years when a young boy's hopes of a recording contract are almost dashed forever, the courting days when he meets Joy McKean, the woman he will later marry, the radio shows of Sydney in the late 1940s, the travelling carnival sideshows of the 1950s - the good times, the bad times. For forty years he's been on the road.' (Source: The Slim Dusty Movie soundtrack liner notes)

Filmed over 20,000 kilometres in a variety of rural towns, truck stops, highways, bush tracks, Aboriginal tribal lands, rodeo arenas, and concert halls, the fim combines historical recreations, concert performances, and candid on-the-road footage of Slim Dusty, his family, musicians, and road crew. The biographical aspect celebrates fifty years in the life of a legendary Australian country music artist. The live performances include some of his greatest hits, including 'Where Country Is,' 'Walk a Country Mile,' 'When the Rain Tumbles Down in July,' 'How Will I Go with Him, Mate?,' 'Pushin' Time,' 'Cunnamulla Feller,' 'Lights on the Hill,' and the all-time classic 'The Pub with No Beer.'

1 form y separately published work icon The Boy in the Bush Hugh Whitemore , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Australian Broadcasting Corporation Portman Productions ABC Television , 1984 Z1430967 1984 series - publisher film/TV Set in Australia during the 1880s, this period drama focuses on Englishman Jack Grant, who travels to Western Australia to work on his relatives' farm.
1 form y separately published work icon For the Term of his Natural Life Patricia Payne , Wilton Schiller , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : Patricia Payne Productions , 1983 Z1823507 1983 series - publisher film/TV

Based on the novel by Marcus Clarke, this is a relatively faithful adaptation, though Moran (in his Guide to Australian TV Series), tracing the connections between this narrative and various other nineteenth-century works, suggests that

For the Term of His Natural Life ceases to have anything much to do with the convict cycle in the mini-series that extend from Against the Wind to The Fremantle Conspiracy. Instead it has a lot more to do with series such as Return to Eden. Indeed, in viewing the series, the viewer experiences a strong surge of pleasure not only in the narrative but in the handsomeness of the settings and costumes, and cinematography but most especially in the star/character recognitions.

The program used a number of international actors (largely, Moran suggests, to increase saleability to overseas markets), including Patrick McNee (The Avengers) and Anthony Perkins (Psycho). At a cost of $5.6 million, it was the most expensive mini-series so far produced for Australian television, but was comparatively well received in Australia and distributed overseas.

1 form y separately published work icon The Timeless Land Peter Yeldham , ABC Television (publisher), ( dir. Rob Stewart et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1980 Z1489554 1980 series - publisher film/TV

The full-page advertisement that the ABC took out in the Australian Women's Weekly positioned the series as follows:

The ABC is proud to present The Timeless Land, the saga of a tough and bloody fight for survival. Starring Michael Craig, Nicola Pagett, Angela Punch McGregor and Ray Barrett.

Meet our first settlers, and share their struggle to shape a nation. Ellen Prentice, convict saved from prostitution by Stephen Mannion, ruthless man of property ... Conor, Stephen's gentle Irish bride ... Arthur Phillip, hapless governor of an ungovernable colony ... Governor King, so despised he was lampooned in the streets ... Bligh, seen by so many as a tyrant.

Source: Australian Women's Weekly, Wed. 3 Sep. 1980: p.172S

1 form y separately published work icon Patrol Boat James Davern , Tony Morphett , Peter Schreck , Ted Roberts , Robert Caswell , Laura Jones , ( dir. Frank Arnold et. al. )agent Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission JNP Films , 1979 Z1820818 1979 series - publisher film/TV adventure crime

An adventure series following the experiences of a naval patrol boat, Patrol Boat rated reasonably well on Australian television and sold well overseas. Made in co-operation with the Royal Australian Navy (which, Moran points out in his Guide to Australian TV Series, 'had been trying to get something similar onto the screen for almost eight years'), the series made use of two naval patrol boats for open-sea shooting, including (for the second series) the Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS Defiance.

Moran notes that 'Guest stories included pursuing drug runners, helping a stranded refugee boat and destroying an old mine that had become dangerous to shipping. Each self-contained episode was constructed around two stories, one usually working around an individual sailor while the other concerned a larger group'.

Patrol Boat was the first program in which series creator James Davern's production company, JNP Film, had an active involvement, but Moran notes that JNP Film 'simply packaged scripts for the first series'. Their involvement was greater in the second series, which was made much later.

1 form y separately published work icon Straight Enough Ted Roberts , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Australia : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1977 6995481 1977 single work film/TV crime

'Set in the Rocks, Sydney. Trevor and Marie are expecting their first child and are doing up Dad's house with the hope of eventually moving in. Chris and Eddie are two amateur criminals who steal a truck, forklift, boxes of salmon and a safe. They weave Trevor into their schemes as they go, with the result that it is Trevor who is eventually caught for the crimes.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 5/2/2014)

2 form y separately published work icon The Kadaitcha Man Ted Roberts , ( dir. Rob Stewart ) Melbourne : Australian Broadcasting Commission , 1976 6674769 1976 single work film/TV crime historical fiction
— Appears in: Zoom In : Television Scripts of the Seventies 1977; (p. 1-46)

Sergeant McKellar is on the trail of a fugitive who is feared to be a kadaitcha man. A sub-plot involves lost children.

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