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1 1 form y separately published work icon Itch Ron Elliott , Heather Wilson , Roger Monk , Jessica Brookman , Melanie Halsall , Dan Berlinka , Australia : Komixx , 2019 15410021 2019 series - publisher film/TV children's

'A 10-part children’s live action-adventure series from Komixx that follows Itchingham Lofte, known as Itch, a science obsessed teenager who pursues an unusual and sometimes dangerous hobby of collecting all the elements on the periodic table.  When Itch discovers a new element with extraordinary powers he is forced to go on the run to protect it from sinister organisations who want it for their own ends.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 5 y separately published work icon Burn Patterns Ron Elliott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2016 9176689 2016 single work novel mystery

'To her clients and colleagues, Iris is a therapist in a city psychology practice. But to the police and fire services, she is the Fire Lady – a profiler of arsonists. After a troubled young man burns down her office, Iris just wants a quiet life. But her peace is shattered when a bomb goes off at a local school. Called in to help, Iris meets James, delusional and dangerous, and Chuck, a lone investigator tracking a serial arsonist he calls Zorro. As public attacks become more orchestrated and brazen, Iris is soon embroiled in the investigation – as a profiler and as a suspect, and in serious doubt about her own sanity.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Lake Story Ron Elliott , Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2014 11448281 2014 single work short story

'Left alone for the day at the lake by their father, four children wander off on adventures which put each of them at risk.

In ‘The Lake Story’ by Ron Elliott, the narrator sifts through his and his adult siblings’ memories to fill the gaps of their life with their erratic, alcoholic father.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Small Claims Ron Elliott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2013 Z1919480 2013 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon The Ring-In Ron Elliott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2013 Z1919419 2013 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Random Malice Ron Elliott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2013 Z1919407 2013 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon For the Birds Ron Elliott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2013 Z1918324 2013 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Double or Nothing Ron Elliott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2013 Z1918276 2013 single work novel
1 Take Five Ron Elliott , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 June (p. 7)
1 5 y separately published work icon Now Showing Ron Elliott , Perth : Fremantle Press , 2013 5983812 2013 selected work short story

'For the price of two movie tickets, Ron Elliott's criminally good mini novels bring cinema's best known genres to the page. Celebrate the celluloid as you read your way into a noir movie, romantic farce, comedy heist, thriller and classic Aussie road movie.

Brimming with cinematic references, Now Showing is best consumed with a tub of hot popcorn.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 With a Touch of History : Ron Elliott. Author of 'Spinner' Ron Elliott , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 54 no. 4 2010; (p. 14-15)
1 6 y separately published work icon Spinner : A Novel Ron Elliott , North Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2010 Z1723444 2010 single work novel

'A simple boy with an amazing gift.
A promise to a dying man.
And a nation that wants to believe.
Can a twelve year old boy be the hero his country needs?

'David Donald is a simple boy with an amazing bowling arm. He's a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend. His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner — a great Australian bullshit artist, a shyster and mythmaker. It's between the wars. It's the glory days of cricket.

'Together, David and Michael will rout the English and reveal more than a little about the shaping of the Australian psyche.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 form y separately published work icon Time Trackers Ron Elliott , Tim Gooding , Doug MacLeod , ( dir. Thomas Robins et. al. )agent Perth New Zealand : Taylor Media Gibson Group , 2008 Z1848769 2008 series - publisher film/TV children's science fiction

Troy, living in 2008, meets Wiremu Love, the teenage navigator of timeship The Chronos, who has travelled back in time. Together, they travel further back and meet Carmen, a cavegirl. The three teenagers combine forces to combat time-viruses that could wipe out history's greatest inventions.

The program, which only ran to thirteen episodes, was created by Paula Boock and Donna Malane, and was a co-production between Taylor Media Pty Ltd (Australia) and Gibson Group (New Zealand).

1 form y separately published work icon Legacy Ron Elliott , ( dir. Grant Sputore ) Western Australia : The Penguin Empire , 2008 11199285 2008 single work film/TV war literature

Australia, 1943. On leave from the front, Donald makes one last attempt to save his brother from the life their father has unwittingly prepared for him.

Source: Production blurb.

1 form y separately published work icon Streetsmartz Coral Drouyn , Vanessa Yardley , Bryan McQueen-Mason , Ron Elliott , Victor Gentile , Claire Bradshaw , Justin Cheek , Dave Warner , ( dir. Mark DeFriest et. al. )agent Western Australia : Great Western Entertainment , 2005-2008 Z1896214 2005-2008 series - publisher film/TV

'STREETSMARTZ is an innovative kid’s drama series set on the streets of Fremantle. The stories of Vinnie and his friends are full of humour, emotional stakes, and the belief that, when all is said and done, family – no matter what form it takes – is what really counts.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 28/11/2013)

1 form y separately published work icon Parallax Lynn Bayonas , Everett de Roche , Coral Drouyn , Ron Elliott , Annie Fox , Meg Mappin , Annie Beach , Sue-Ellen Block , Victor Gentile , Piers Hobson , Paul Douglas Barron , ( dir. Mark DeFriest et. al. )agent Western Australia : Great Western Entertainment , 2004 Z1844427 2004 series - publisher film/TV science fiction children's

Fourteen-year-old Ben discovers that his seemingly staid country town of Werrinup, Western Australia, is actually the gateway to a number of parallel dimensions--where things are almost but not quite like his own world. Once he becomes aware of the parallel worlds, he also becomes aware that they are under threat, and he has to help protect them.

Parallax was created and produced by Paul D. Barron, who is also responsible for such programs as Wormwood, Stormworld, and Ship to Shore.

1 form y separately published work icon Ocean Star Ocean Star : The Quest Peter Bibby , Sarah Rosetti , Ron Elliott , Paul Bennett , Ro Hume , Alicia Walsh , Ro Hume , Bruce Best , ( dir. James Bogle et. al. )agent Western Australia : BBHTV Pty Ltd Northway Productions Network Ten , 2003 Z1856957 2003 series - publisher film/TV children's adventure young adult fantasy

When the Steadman brothers, familiar with life in the big city, are sent to live with their father in a small town, they can't decide what they dislike most: the local kids or the local environment. But when Trent hears a story from an old pearler about a mythical cluster of South Sea pearls, the Ocean Star, lost in a cyclone forty years earlier, he and his friends set out on a quest, the dangers of which they could never have forseen.

1 form y separately published work icon Southern Cross Ron Elliott , ( dir. Mark DeFriest ) Australia : Taylor Media , 2002 7496985 2002 single work film/TV children's

'Two illegal immigrant children escape from a detention centre to travel overland to find their last remaining relatives.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 form y separately published work icon Wild Kat John Armstrong , Coral Drouyn , Ron Elliott , Marieke Hardy , Peter Neale , Alicia Walsh , Paul Douglas Barron , David Ogilvy , ( dir. Steve Peddie et. al. )agent Perth : Barron Entertainment , 2001 Z1849072 2001 series - publisher film/TV children's young adult science fiction

When fifteen-year-old Katrina moves to Perth to live with her mother, a veterinary scientist at the local zoo, she begins acting oddly. Realising she can 'mind-meld' with Garang, the zoo's ferocious female tiger, she finds her senses of smell, hearing, and sight improving, including her night vision. Upset and bewildered by his sister's odd behaviour, her eleven-year-old brother Jamie teams up with the youngest daughter of the zoo manager to try and solve the mystery. But not everyone's intentions are honorable, as one of the zoo's scientists plans to manipulate the genetic quirk that Kat and the tiger share, hoping to use it to recreate extinct species.

1 form y separately published work icon Chuck Finn James Beard , John Coulter , Ysabelle Dean , Coral Drouyn , Roger Dunn , Ron Elliott , Annie Fox , Peter Hepworth , Simon Hopkinson , Neil Luxmoore , Victoria Osbourne , David Phillips , Mark Poole , Sheila Sibley , Geraldine Mellet , Vincent Gil , Faye Grant-Williams , Brendan Luno , ( dir. Pino Amenta et. al. )agent Perth : Barron Entertainment , 1999-2000 Z1849145 1999-2000 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy

Chuck Finn follows Charles 'Chuck' Finn, a Canadian boy whose parents move from Toronto to the Australian country town of Tingalla. At first, he longs desperately to return to Toronto, but he soon finds the decommissioned and derelict paddle steamer the Tingalla Rose. Soon, he and his friends--some of whom are ghostly, rather than mortal--are enchanted by the possibility of getting the Tingalla Rose running again and seduced by life on the Murray River.

Unfortunately for Chuck Finn, Barron Entertainment declared bankruptcy during the production of season two. A truncated season of six episodes was completed and released, but the production was abandoned at that point.

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