AustLit

'A comedy, a tragedy - a tale of sea eagles, of pole dancing and childhood dreams, of rock and roll, of love and friendships which have stood the test of time.

'Until now. 

'Jackie, Elizabeth, Frances and Susan met at high school. They became besties, hit London in the sixties and then carved out very different lives for themselves.  Now, they don't see each other as often, but always make it a rule to meet up once a year for a girl's night out.

'But this year is different.

'The most radical member of their group is in crisis. To offer their support, the women take her back to her country home for a weekend - to relax and let their hair down. What could possibly go wrong? 


'The ensuing nightmare will test their friendship, their morals and their courage as never before. And a final twist in the tale will change their lives forever.'

Source: Flight Path Theatre.

One of Australia's highest rating dramas, All Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama set in the fictional All Saints Western General Hospital in suburban Sydney. The stories originally focused on the nursing staff of Ward 17 run by Nursing Unit Manager Terri Sullivan. It was sometimes referred to as the 'garbage ward' because it took the overflow of patients.

In 2004 Network Seven producers overhauled the series in an effort to increase the show's gradually dwindling audience. They achieved this by closing down Ward 17 and transferring some of the staff to the Emergency Department managed by Frank Campion. Several other new lead characters were also introduced. The changes also saw the storylines begin to focus more on the lives of the doctors and nurses.

Another significant change to the series came in early 2009 when the producers introduced the Medical Response Unit. Central to this development was the helicopter which took doctors to rescue situations outside the hopsital and which in turn brought patients to the All Saints Emergency Department. The show's name was also changed at this time to All Saints: Medical Response Unit. The increased production costs created by having scenes shot on location played a part, however, in the series being cancelled mid-year. The series ended with the Emergency Department and Medical Response Unit teams having a dinner to farewell the last remaining original character, Von Ryan on her final day at All Saints.

All Saints was popular in many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Iran.

A spin-off from the series The Ferals, Feral TV saw the Ferals, while wandering the sewers looking for a new home, stumble across the cables for a television network. Hacking into the cables, they begin their own pirate television program, but soon prove so popular with the network's core audience that the network dispatches one of their executives to oversee the program.

'Fast-paced series spin-off of the hit feature film. Filmed at an abandoned school in Sydney's Maroubra, this program was about an ethnically diverse group of students attending Hartley High School.'

Source: National Film and Sound Archive record.

'Kate Roberts, a wealthy woman with a dark secret and a drinking problem, marries handsome property developer Sato Mitsuru. A series of weird disturbances in their seventh floor apartment intensifies into a frightening campaign that drives Kate towards insanity before she discovers a conspiracy against her life and fights back.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/7/2013)

Wendy Walters yearns for the passion she finds between the pages of the romance novels that she reads religiously. Her life isn't bad, just boring. When her husband Ronnie forgets their wedding anniversary, Wendy stumbles into an affair with rich and handsome Jake. But all fairy tales must come to an end. Even though Wendy learns that Jake's not quite the Prince Charming she thought he was, hers still has an unexpectedly happy ending.

'A story of three women's vengeance against a man who ruined each of their lives 15 years ago. Set in Spain, Morocco and Sydney.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 27/6/2013)

A television mini-series based on the award-winning collection of short stories by Robert Drewe, Bodysurfer combines a number of characters and incidents to create a single narrative focusing on the troubled personal life of Sydney architect David Lang. The narrative takes place over a period of some eighteen months, beginning shortly after the failure of Lang's marriage. He begins a series of casual affairs, but memories of his past come flooding back to stir his feelings of guilt and he has a breakdown.

Set in a small, fictional, New South Wales country town called Wandin Valley, A Country Practice focused on the staffs of the town's medical practice and local hospital and on the families of the doctors, nurses, and patients. Many of the episodes also featured guest characters (frequently patients served by the practice) through whom various social and medical problems were explored. Although often considered a soap opera, the series was not built around an open-ended narrative; instead, the two one-hour episodes screened per week formed a self-contained narrative block, though many of the storylines were developed as sub-plots for several episodes before becoming the focus of a particular week's storyline. While the focus was on topical issues such as youth unemployment, suicide, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and terminal illness, the program did sometimes explore culturally sensitive issues, including, for example, the Aboriginal community and their place in modern Australian society.

Among the show's principal characters were Dr Terence Elliott, local policeman Sergeant Frank Gilroy, Esme Watson, Shirley Dean Gilroy, Bob Hatfield, Vernon 'Cookie' Locke, and Matron Margaret 'Maggie' Sloan. In addition to its regularly rotating cast of characters, A Country Practice also had a cast of semi-regulars who would make appearances as the storylines permitted. Interestingly, while the series initially targeted the adult and older youth demographic, it became increasingly popular with children over the years.