Matthew and Son
Aug 05, 1984A widowed police surgeon tries to save the world at the same time as maintaining a bond with his teenage son.
Drama
Peter Kowitz
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The Clean Machine
May 22, 1988A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
Crime
Joey
Dec 26, 1997Billy McGregor, un jeune garçon de 12 ans vit dans un ranch au coeur de l'Outback australien, avec sa mère aimante et des tas d'animaux très gentils : en particulier un bébé kangourou : Joey. Lorsque les parents de Joey seront enlevés par des braconniers, Billy fera tout son possible pour aider son ami kangourou !
Comedy
Dear Cardholder
Nov 22, 1989Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit.
Comedy
A Street to Die
Oct 03, 1985An Australian who has fought in Vietnam blames Agent Orange for his cancer, and sues for compensation.
The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg
Apr 09, 2010Lotte and Ned have a problem. The wunderkind director of their theatre company, Bryce Kransky, pulls out of directing an adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. He is replaced by Michael Gregg, a troubled director attempting a comeback. Following disastrous rehearsals, the cast begins to revolt, all while Gregg believes he has a masterpiece.
Comedy
Big ideas
Jan 01, 1992Selling compost brings a boy inventor (Justin Rosniak) and his widowed mother (Gosia Dobrowolska) into conflict with their neighbor.
Drama
McLeod's Daughters
Jan 31, 2009Après la mort de sa femme et son fils pendant l'accouchement, le père de Claire, Jack McLeod, épouse Ruth Silverman. Tess est le produit de cette union de courte durée. Vingt ans plus tard, après la mort soudaine de Jack, ses filles héritent chacune de la moitié du lourdement hypothéqué Drover's Run. Tess, qui a récemment perdu sa mère d'un cancer du sein, revient à Drover dans l'espoir de pouvoir ouvrir un café de la ville mais est déçu de la situation financière de sa sœur ainée. Après que Claire licencie la main-d’œuvre masculine, les sœurs, avec l'aide de la ménagère Meg Fontaine et de ses filles Jodi et Becky, décident d'exécuter elles-mêmes les travaux d'entretien de la ferme et se sortir de leurs dettes.
Drama
Supernova
Sep 07, 2006Supernova is a British comedy series produced by Hartswood Films and jointly commissioned by the BBC in the UK and UKTV in Australia. It follows Dr Paul Hamilton, a Welsh astronomer, who leaves a dull academic post and unloved girlfriend for a new job at the Royal Australian Observatory, deep in the Australian outback. The comedy centres around his difficulties adjusting to life in the outback and his eccentric fellow astronomers. The first series was released in the United Kingdom and Australia in October 2005 and consisted of six 30-minute episodes. The second series began airing on 3 August 2006 in the UK.
The exterior scenes were shot at Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia. The observatory itself is a CGI creation, according to the DVD commentary, and only a partial doorway was constructed on site for filming purposes.
Drama
Hartley, cœurs à vif
Nov 29, 1999Cette série met en scène les joies et les peines des élèves de Hartley High, puis de Hartley Heights, deux lycées situés dans un quartier multiracial de Sydney.
Drama
Farscape
Mar 21, 2003John Crichton est astronaute. Le jour où il part dans l'espace pour vérifier l'une de ses théories, son module est aspiré par un vortex et il se retrouve projeté dans une zone inconnue de l'univers où personne n'a jamais entendu parler ni de la terre ni des humains. Il est recueilli par un Léviathan avec à son bord trois prisonniers en train de s'échapper. Dès lors il n'aura de cesse de chercher un moyen pour pouvoir rentrer chez lui. Mais le voyage ne sera pas de tout repos car l'univers grouille de menaces plus dangereuses les unes que les autres...
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Brigade des mers
Aug 07, 2001Cette série met en scène la vie d'un commissariat de la police maritime. Deux inspecteurs enquêtent sur les crimes qui ont eu lieu en mer et dans le port de Sydney et ses environs.Et on suit le quotidien des patrouilleurs et des plongeurs de la brigade des mers
Crime
Chances
Dec 30, 1992Chances was an Australian evening soap opera, produced from 1991 to 1992. It told the story of the average middle-class Taylor family whose lives are transformed by winning $3 million in the lottery. The series was broadcast by the Nine Network, initially as two one-hour episodes each week.
Principal cast members included John Sheerin and Brenda Addie as Dan and Barbara Taylor, Jeremy Sims as their mischievous son Alex, Deborah Kennedy as Dan's sister Connie Reynolds, Tim Robertson as Dan's brother Jack, Anne Grigg as his wife Sarah, and Michael Caton as neighbourhood friend Bill Anderson. Originally, creator Lynn Bayonas pitched the show as a family-oriented drama; however to help ensure the program's success, Channel Nine asked for nude scenes and risqué elements to also be included in the series. Initial publicity for the show focused on the sex angle, and it was for this that Chances was chiefly known.
Soap
Pacific Drive
Jan 29, 1996Pacific Drive is an Australian television series The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American soap opera Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation.
Soap
Bodysurfer
Aug 10, 1989Bodysurfer charts the odyssey of David Lang. Searching beyond mid-life crisis, David finds unanswered questions of his childhood can lead him toward a state of maturity. He realises it is his last hope for reconstructing his fractured family
Drama
Land of Hope
Jul 20, 1986
Crownies
Dec 01, 2011Delving into the extraordinary world of the Department of Public Prosecutions and its young, eager lawyers, Crownies follows five young solicitors as they face the pressures and endearing madness of modern single life - in a fast paced workplace that highlights the moral dilemmas and big issues facing an apparently civilized society.
Drama
Janet King
Jul 13, 2017Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.
Drama
The Flying Doctors
Oct 06, 1992The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish.
The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
Drama
The Flying Doctors
Oct 06, 1992The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish.
The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
Drama
Rafferty's Rules
Aug 31, 1990Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.
Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
Drama
A Town Like Alice
Jul 26, 1981Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
Drama
Halifax f.p.
Jul 07, 2002Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne.
The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd
21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries.
The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.
Drama
Young Lions
Dec 18, 2002Quatre jeunes inspecteurs ambitieux et carriéristes font équipe dans le commissariat de Southwest Police.
Drama
Ring of Scorpio
Apr 25, 1991Three women plot revenge against a drug dealer who scammed them into working in his operations.
Crime
All Saints
Oct 27, 2009Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
Drama
Grass Roots
May 27, 2003Grass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003.
The series is set around the fictional Arcadia Waters Council near Sydney, and was primarily a satirical look at the machinations of local government. It was written by Geoffrey Atherden.
Part of the series was filmed in the inner west Sydney suburb of Concord. Many external shots of Arcadia waters Council chambers used Concord Council Chambers as a setting and as was other various locations around Concord, particularly in the shopping centre and cafes in Majors Bay Road. Beach scenes were filmed at Mona Vale, New South Wales on Sydney's northern beaches, while the location "Cemetery Point" was filmed at the Mona Vale headland reserve.
Comedy
