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Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 Kingswood Country
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Film Details - RS Productions , 1980

Producers:

Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler

Production Companies:

RS Productions

Production Designers:

Ken Goodman

Music:

Mike Perjanik

Cast:

Including Ross Higgins (Ted Bulpitt), Colin McEwan (Bob Bulpitt), Maggie Dence (Merle Bullpitt), Judi Farr (Thelma Bulpitt), Peter Fisher (Craig Bulpitt), Lex Marinos (Bruno), Laurel McGowan (Greta), Noeline Brown (Elizabeth Windsor), and Kevin Golsby (Sergeant Kelly).
Higgins's Naked Vicar Show castmates Noeline Brown, Laurel McGowan, and Kevin Golsby all had recurring roles in Kingswood Country.

Release Dates:

According to Moran, 30 January 1980

Awards:

  • Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy (1981 and 1982)

Notes:

List of episodes

Note: Authors traced for only the first three series

Series one

1. The Thirty Year Itch (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

3. Willow Talk (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

4. My Son the Fairy (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

5. Lest We Forget the Rissoles (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

6. The Shares of the Fisherman (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

7. Aerial Warfare (Doug Edwards)

8. Cold Finger (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

9. Sprung Fever (Doug Edwards)

10. The Importance of Big Jim (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

11. His Bach Is Worse Than His Bite (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

12. Just a Gigolo (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

13. Car Wars (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

Series two

1. Bye Bye Budgie (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

2. The Big Sleeper (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

3. The Royal Visit (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

4. Police Release Me (Doug Edwards)

5. Divorce Bullpitt Style (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

6. There's No Place Like Rome (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

7. Boom Boom Bullpitt (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

8. The Miracle of Wombat Crescent (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

9. Guess Who's Burning the Dinner (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

10. The Bard of Wombat Crescent (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

11. Bury My Heart in Wombat Crescent (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

12. Illegal Eagle (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

13. Till Yodelling Do Us Part (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

Series three

1. Sale of the Century (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

2. We're No Angels (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

3. The Roots of Bullpitt (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

4. The Love God of Wombat Crescent (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

5. Not Tonight Tweety Pie (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

6. Meet Sister Alibi (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

7. The Hair of the Cat that Bit You (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

8. Uncle Jack Gets His Own Back (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

9. That Old Black Magic (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

10. Room to Rent (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

11. Lodger Protest (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

12. An Affair to Remember (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

13. Wages of Fear (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

14. Plaster of Paris (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

15. Strike Me Catholic (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

16. Three into Fur Won't Go (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

17. Trees Company (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

18. Sweet and Sour Charity (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

19. Smoke Out at Wombat Crescent (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

20. Every Dog Has Its Pay (Doug Edwards and Ian Heydon)

Series four

1. A Lode of Old Bullpitt (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

2. Briefcase Encounter (Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler)

3. Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow

4. Whodunnit?

5. A Very Green Grocer

6. A Matter of Willpower

7. Divorce Australian Style

8. Hair of the Blue Dog

9. Wombat Madness

10. It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Tile!

11. The Ones That Didn't Get Away

12. Licence to Thrill

13. With a Little Bitter Luck

14. Bob & Merle & Ted & Neville

15. Presenting the Ted and Sparky Show

16. A Dog Called Horse

17. Teapot of Gold

18. Sons and Datsuns

19. Man of the Match

20. Bagpipe Dreams

21. A Spelling Lesson

22. No Bed of Rosa's

Series five

1. Ted Bullpitt Meets the Lone Arranger

2. Better Dead Than Red

3. A Whole New Ball Game

4. Birth of a Salesman

5. Two and Two Is Nun

6. The Night They Raided Bruno's

7. Caught in the Act

8. Ted Bullpitt, the Human Eel

9. Postman's Knock

10. First Lady of Fashion

Series six

1. Snow Way to Treat a Lady

2. Red Faced Brigade

3. Double Trouble

4. Old Soldiers Never Die, They Keep Turning Up

5. Stamp Out Poverty

6. The Mild Bunch

7. Snow White and the Seven Jockeys

8. There's No Business Like Snow Business

9. Sail of the Century

10. The Butler Dunnit!


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