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All posts tagged "Our friends in the Commonwealth"
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6.8K4TV: C is for...Children Of Fire Mountain
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...
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7.9K8TV: H is for...
Hudson and Halls
CAMP CUISINE on a Grayson scale courtesy of titular Australian twosome riding the back (steady now) of late-80s NEIGHBOURS UK popularity.
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3.0K1TV: K is for...
Keynotes
MORE GRUEL FROM REG GRUNDY, here fronted by the ever-smiling ALISTAIR DIVALL.
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6.6K8TV: P is for...
Prisoner Cell Block H
ROTTEN PANTOMIMESQUE female lag epic
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23.0K26TV: N is for...Neighbours
EVERYBODY NEEDS good ones.
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8.3K8TV: S is for...
Sons and Daughters
AFTERNOON STRIPPED Aussie cut-price DYNASTY tomfoolery from the melodrama meister Reg Grundy.
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3.5K2TV: R is for...
Return to Eden
HANNA AND BARBERA venture into live action, but this appalling Antipodean Dynasty rip-off was no Banana Splits.
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4.3K4TV: P is for...
Professor Poopsnaggle’s Steam Zeppelin
OZ IMPORT for kids screened in (sigh) two-hour segments.
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4.2K4TV: P is for...
Paul Hogan Show, The
RED-FACED ANTIPODEAN roisterer
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2.9KTV: P is for...
Phoenix Five
MORE UNWANTED flotsam washed up from Down Under
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3.9K2TV: B is for...
Boney
YET ANOTHER BLOODY outback drama.
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4.3K2TV: B is for...
Bluey
AUSSIE COP runaround
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3.4KTV: C is for...
Children of the Dog Star
NEW ZEALAND export about a Tearaway Girl
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2.8KTV: C is for...
Chopper Squad
CHIPS-OF-THE-AIR-'EM-UP
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3.4K2TV: B is for...
Beachcombers
SKIVVY CANADIAN live action "drama"
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8.4K8TV: T is for...
Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten, The
HARD-UP AUNTIE resorts to slapping on another shitty import to eat up expensive airtime on hot August mornings, when no-one will be...
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3.3KTV: D is for...
Delta
UNHINGED OZ half-hourathon boasting your usual chisel-featured bloke and shapely woman assistant in fitted leather suit.
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2.0KTV: W is for...
Wonder Why
EDUCATIONAL SERIES featuring a talking, poorly-operated puppet skeleton
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2.6KTV: M is for...
Magic Boomerang, The
ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUE no doubt burnt/drowned/disintegrated long ago
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3.2K1TV: W is for...
Waterfront
JACK THOMPSON loafs around a depression-era shipping union as WARREN "GARNETT" MITCHELL invents satire in a tin-roofed music hall.
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2.4KTV: F is for...
Forest Rangers, The
OUTDOORSY CANUCK intrepidities as GRAYDON GOULD and a mollycoddling bunch of lads (plus token girl) with no school to go to indulge...
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3.0KTV: H is for...
Homicide
ANTIPODEAN SLEUTHING that basically pioneered the entire Aussie film and TV industry.
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3.0KTV: H is for...
Hunter
MORE ANTIPODEAN antics, this time by way of their answer to James Bond.
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6.2K16TV: Y is for...
Young Doctors, The
NOT THAT there was anything very young about them.
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3.5K2TV: S is for...
Solo One
DUSTILY-REMEMBERED STAPLE of Granada's school holiday morning schedules, featuring PAUL CRONIN as Aussie motorbike cop Gary Hogan, spun-off from MATLOCK POLICE.
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3.5K3TV: J is for...
Jewel in the Crown, The
ELEPHANTINE RAMBLE around the Raj
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3.8K4TV: S is for...
Spy Force
SECOND WORLD war adventures of a bunch of characters played by actors who seemed to star in every other Australian film and...
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2.7KTV: S is for...
Secret Railroad
ANIMATED CAPRICE concerning a kid named Simon who moves into an apartment building, and one day becomes absent minded and presses the...
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3.1K1TV: K is for...
Kids from Degrassi Street, The/Degrassi Junior High
CANADIAN SOAPERY that became a regular Children's BBC post-school distraction.
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3.4KTV: U is for...
Under the Mountain
KIDS' DRAMABORE series set in either Australia or New Zealand
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5.7K9TV: N is for...
National Film Board of Canada, The
FORMED IN 1936 as a propaganda maker, the NFBC has carried on providing state-subsidised films in Canada (both short and feature length)...
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4.7KTV: C is for...
Call Me Mister
ANGLO/ANTIPODEAN CO-PRODUCTION, trotted out in that tantalising post-9pm-news not-too-adult-but-worth-staying-up-for-all-the-same slot.
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3.3KTV: A is for...
Anzacs
AUSTRALIAN EPIC re-telling sterling Oz exploits in World War One.
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4.2K3TV: A is for...
Amazing World of Kreskin, The
WEIRDO SPECCOID Canadian mind reader who turned up for about ten minutes with confusing and unimpressive mind trickery.
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6.1K1TV: A is for...
Adventures on Kythera
AUSSIE KIDS Molly (AMEILA FRID - the original Cody Willis in NEIGHBOURS) and Spike (GARY PERAZZO) holiday on a Greek island, where...
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5.4K7TV: S is for...
Sullivans, The
WARTIME UPS and downs of a down under nuclear family.
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2.1KTV: S is for...
Stranger, The
OBSCURE OZ version of The Man Who Fell To Earth. Except many years before that, of course.
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3.6K3TV: S is for...
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
AUSTRALIA'S MOST exported show (to 128 countries at last count).
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