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Set on far north Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, this adventure series revolves around a scientific search and recovery team working for General Trust Corporation (GTC), a large Australian industrial and pastoral group. Led by Captain Ted King and his first mate and diving expert Jack Meuraki (a Thursday Islander), the team of scientists and divers are also often required to carry out missions for the government. The team is highly proactive with regard to conservation and vehemently opposed to any type of exploitation of the Reef.

The centre of operations for the team is a 135-foot windjammer named the New Endeavour. The ship also houses a sophisticated piece of electronic equipment called Minus Five (Mineral Identification Nuclear Undersea Seismography Mark V), which the Endeavour team affectionately call 'Grandma,' after the line in 'Little Red Riding Hood': 'What big eyes you have!' Specifically developed for General Trust projects, Grandma serves a number of functions, including providing accurate geological analyses of the seabed and the earth below it. Though Grandma plays a vital role in the various missions and adventures that ensue, the machine's presence must be kept secret, since GTC and the Federal Government are concerned that foreign political and commercial interests might attempt to get hold of the technology (which includes, for example, the ability to locate mineral deposits or sunken wrecks with valuable cargo).

A spin-off from the hugely popular television series Skippy, the movie version retains the same central characters: Matt Hammond, Chief Ranger of Waratah National Park; his two sons Mark and Sonny; Jerry King, the young Flight Ranger; and Clancy Merrick, the teenage daughter of another ranger, who works part time at Ranger Headquarters.

The narrative sees Skippy discover a ruthless gang of criminals, led by Meredith, who are searching for lost treasure on the ocean floor. Sonny and Clancy try to investigate but are kidnapped. Skippy manages to bring help, and, after a speedboat chase and a gun fight, the villains are rounded up and brought to justice.

Set in the fictional Waratah National Park (NSW), the Skippy series focuses largely on the adventures of a young boy, Sonny Hammond, and his intelligent pet kangaroo, Skippy. Sonny is the youngest child of Head Ranger Matt Hammond. Matt was left a widower in his early forties when his wife Mary died not long after Sonny was born. Other principal characters are Sonny's older brother Mark, Flight Ranger Jerry King (the park's helicopter pilot), and Ranger Clancy Merrick, the teenage daughter of another park ranger.

French-Australian co-production.

An ambitious woman seeks to advance her husband's standing in his business through blackmail, seduction, and murder.

French-Australian co-production.

A group of adventurers (and one female stowaway) compete against one another to locate a missing heir.

'As he’s heading for Australia on leave, senior patrol officer Steve McAllister (Chips Rafferty) is recalled to take a patrol into unmapped territory in the highlands of Australian-administered New Guinea. An old prospector, 'Sharkeye’ Kelly (Reg Lye), has discovered oil during an unauthorised expedition that claimed his brother’s life. McAllister is annoyed that he must take a French doctor, a UN malaria specialist (Françoise Christophe) into the interior, but she becomes crucial to the expedition’s success, when they encounter hostile tribes in 'Paradise Valley’.'

Source: Australian Screen.

Reputed playboy Peter Merriman inherits a company that harvests shells and pearls in the Coral Sea. He decides to visit the operations, arriving around the same time that the company's manager, Ted King, discovers a body out in the ocean. When King brings the body back, it sets off an investigation into the possibiilty of people-smuggling in the area, and the local police appeal to King for help.

Merriman arrives and a mutual attraction develops between him and King's daughter, Rusty. Some tension develops between Merriman and King, however, when the new boss shows them the modern diving equipment he wants to use in order to streamline the operation and save lives. King is later convinced when the equipment saves his own life. When the people-smugglers learn that King is on their trail, they take Rusty hostage, but King, his assistant Jack, and Merriman follow, using Merriman's aqualungs, rescue her, and capture the villains before the police arrive.

A young woman running an outback cattle station calls in a mysterious bushman called The Sundowner and his Indigenous Australian assistant, Dancer (with whom The Sundowner can communicate telepathically), to investigate the possible murder of her father and the rustling of her cattle.