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'Head of Administration and Logistics, John Clarke, and his colleagues, Bryan Dawe, Head of Accounts, Budgeting and Finance, and Gina Riley, Marketing and Liaison Manager, are sizzling in the heat of the final countdown to the Opening Ceremony. As the Games draw closer, the Games team try to devise ways of supplementing their dwindling revenue.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 11/6/2013)

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      :       Beyond Productions ; ABC Television ,       2000 .
      Extent: 60min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon The Games : Series II John Clarke , Ross Stevenson , Australia : Beyond Productions ABC Television , 2000 Z793599 2000 series - publisher film/TV humour satire

      A irreverent comedy drama series that takes the form of a pseudo-documentary series, The Games sees a film crew given carte blanche access to the fictional managing body of the Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (SOCOG). The cameras are therefore present at meetings, briefings, site inspections, and press conferences.

      Season One is set early on in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics. The ABC then scheduled Season Two so that the thirteen episodes ran until the week before the opening of the Olympics on 15 September 2000. As outrageous as many of the storylines were, they were allegedly nothing compared to the real-life SOCOG.

      Number in series: 10
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Bruce Permezel
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