MISLEADINGLY invigoratingly-titled Kiwi-instigated saga of turn-of-the-century Blyton-esque youngsters in pinstripes and straw hats. Much derring-do revolved around sub-Fawlty morali-comic attempts to help...
CAMP CUISINE on a Grayson scale courtesy of titular Australian twosome riding the back (steady now) of late-80s NEIGHBOURS UK popularity.
MORE GRUEL FROM REG GRUNDY, here fronted by the ever-smiling ALISTAIR DIVALL.
ROTTEN PANTOMIMESQUE female lag epic
EVERYBODY NEEDS good ones.
AFTERNOON STRIPPED Aussie cut-price DYNASTY tomfoolery from the melodrama meister Reg Grundy.
HANNA AND BARBERA venture into live action, but this appalling Antipodean Dynasty rip-off was no Banana Splits.
OZ IMPORT for kids screened in (sigh) two-hour segments.
RED-FACED ANTIPODEAN roisterer
MORE UNWANTED flotsam washed up from Down Under
YET ANOTHER BLOODY outback drama.
AUSSIE COP runaround
NEW ZEALAND export about a Tearaway Girl
CHIPS-OF-THE-AIR-'EM-UP
SKIVVY CANADIAN live action "drama"
HARD-UP AUNTIE resorts to slapping on another shitty import to eat up expensive airtime on hot August mornings, when no-one will be...
UNHINGED OZ half-hourathon boasting your usual chisel-featured bloke and shapely woman assistant in fitted leather suit.
EDUCATIONAL SERIES featuring a talking, poorly-operated puppet skeleton
ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUE no doubt burnt/drowned/disintegrated long ago
JACK THOMPSON loafs around a depression-era shipping union as WARREN "GARNETT" MITCHELL invents satire in a tin-roofed music hall.
OUTDOORSY CANUCK intrepidities as GRAYDON GOULD and a mollycoddling bunch of lads (plus token girl) with no school to go to indulge...
ANTIPODEAN SLEUTHING that basically pioneered the entire Aussie film and TV industry.
MORE ANTIPODEAN antics, this time by way of their answer to James Bond.
NOT THAT there was anything very young about them.
DUSTILY-REMEMBERED STAPLE of Granada's school holiday morning schedules, featuring PAUL CRONIN as Aussie motorbike cop Gary Hogan, spun-off from MATLOCK POLICE.
ELEPHANTINE RAMBLE around the Raj
SECOND WORLD war adventures of a bunch of characters played by actors who seemed to star in every other Australian film and...
ANIMATED CAPRICE concerning a kid named Simon who moves into an apartment building, and one day becomes absent minded and presses the...
CANADIAN SOAPERY that became a regular Children's BBC post-school distraction.
KIDS' DRAMABORE series set in either Australia or New Zealand
FORMED IN 1936 as a propaganda maker, the NFBC has carried on providing state-subsidised films in Canada (both short and feature length)...
ANGLO/ANTIPODEAN CO-PRODUCTION, trotted out in that tantalising post-9pm-news not-too-adult-but-worth-staying-up-for-all-the-same slot.
AUSTRALIAN EPIC re-telling sterling Oz exploits in World War One.
WEIRDO SPECCOID Canadian mind reader who turned up for about ten minutes with confusing and unimpressive mind trickery.
AUSSIE KIDS Molly (AMEILA FRID - the original Cody Willis in NEIGHBOURS) and Spike (GARY PERAZZO) holiday on a Greek island, where...
WARTIME UPS and downs of a down under nuclear family.
OBSCURE OZ version of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Except many years before that, of course.
AUSTRALIA'S MOST exported show (to 128 countries at last count).
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