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David Allen David Allen i(A34921 works by) (a.k.a. David Christopher Allen)
Born: Established: 1936 Birmingham, West Midlands,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Expatriate assertion Arrived in Australia: 1972
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1 y separately published work icon Florrie David Allen , (Manuscript version)x400084 Z849919 single work drama
1 6 form y separately published work icon All Saints All Saints : Medical Response Unit Louise Crane , Sally Webb , Charlie Strachan , John Banas , Sarah Walker , Denise Morgan , Christine McCourt , Sean Nash , Philip Dalkin , Peter A. Kinloch , Peter Neale , David Phillips , Chris Roache , Phil Sanders , Sue Hore , Serge Lazareff , Michael Miller , Ted Roberts , Sarah Smith , Lily Taylor , Elizabeth Coleman , Kristen Dunphy , Daniel Krige , Kelly Lefever , Blake Ayshford , Anthony Ellis , Grant McAloon , Annette Moore , David Hannam , Anne Lucas , Christina Milligan , Julie Monton , Grant Fraser , Ro Hume , Cathy Strickland , Susan Bower , Bevan Lee , Margaret Wilson , David Allen , Andrew Ryan , Greg Haddrick , Alexa Wyatt , Michaeley O'Brien , Chris Hawkshaw , Carol Williams , Tracey Trinder-Doig , John Hanlon , Marcia Gardner , Howard Griffiths , Chris Phillips , Katherine Thomson , Bill Garner , Chris Corbett , Peter Gawler , David William Boutland , Lesley Lewis , Fiona Kelly , Hamish Wright , Loraine Rogers , Grace Morris , Megan Herbert , Edwina Searle , Jenny Lewis , John Concannon , Rick Held , Alex Pope , Faith McKinnon , John Hugginson , Bridie O'Neill , Harry West , Tim Pye , Julie Edwards , Sarah Lambert , Jeff Truman , Trent Atkinson , Suzanne Hawley , Graham Richards , Toby Wallace , Sean Nash , Catherine Millar , Kevin Roberts , Sam Meikle , Tim Gooding , Peter Dick , Trent Roberts , Robert Haywood , Clare Atkins , Kim Wilson , Martin McKenna , Shelley Birse , ( dir. Leigh Spence et. al. )agent 1998 Australia : Seven Network Red Heart Entertainment , 1998-2009 Z1571142 1998 series - publisher film/TV

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.

1 Doomed Love Has Universal Appeal David Allen , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 June 1998; (p. 15)

— Review of Diving for Pearls Katherine Thomson , 1991 single work drama
1 4 form y separately published work icon Water Rats Anne Brooksbank , Peter Gawler , Denise Morgan , Sue Hore , Michael Miller , David Worthington , Michaeley O'Brien , Philip Dalkin , Peter Neale , David Phillips , Serge Lazareff , Ted Roberts , Kristen Dunphy , Deborah Parsons , Ray Harding , Tony Morphett , David Allen , Russell Hagg , Margaret Wilson , Ellie Beaumont , Chris Hawkshaw , Christine McCourt , Andrew Kelly , Grant McAloon , Elizabeth Packett , Bill Searle , Tim Pye , Adam Todd , Alexa Wyatt , John Banas , Graeme Koetsveld , Grant Fraser , Louise Crane , Tim Gooding , John O'Brien , Sam De Brito , Vicki Madden , Amanda Higgs , James Cohen , Rhett Gable , Brian Campbell , Margaret Morgan , John Hugginson , Tony Morphett , ( dir. Tim Burstall et. al. )agent 1996 Australia : Nine Network Hal McElroy Southern Star , 1996-2001 Z1725223 1996 series - publisher film/TV crime

Water Rats is an Australian police television series which was broadcast on the Nine Network between 1996 and 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney Harbour.

1 Sydney Festival David Allen , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 12 January 1996; (p. 11)

— Review of Live Acts on Stage Michael Gow , 1996 single work drama
1 Untitled David Allen , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 23 February 1996;

— Review of Historia Noëlle Janaczewska , 1996 single work drama
1 Going Down with Their Dreams David Allen , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9-10 March 1996; (p. rev 15)

— Review of Promised Lands Jane Rogers , 1995 single work novel
1 Dickens with a Twist David Allen , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 November 1995; (p. rev 7)

— Review of The Potato Factory Bryce Courtenay , 1995 single work novel
1 6 form y separately published work icon Blue Heelers Tony Morphett , Hal McElroy , Seven Network (publisher), Tony Morphett , Ysabelle Dean , Howard Griffiths , Ted Roberts , Greg Haddrick , Graeme Koetsveld , Anne Brooksbank , John Upton , Peter A. Kinloch , Tim Gooding , Ray Harding , Everett de Roche , Judith Colquhoun , Patrick Edgeworth , Justin Glockerla , Stephen Measday , Sue Hore , Alan Hopgood , John Lord , Rachel Lewis , John Coulter , Hugh Stuckey , Peter Gawler , David Allen , Cassandra Carter , Michaeley O'Brien , Fred Clarke , Margaret Plumb , John Wood , Leon Saunders , Wal Saunders , Russell Hagg , Ruth Field , Shane Brennan , Max Singer , Michael Winter , David Phillips , John Banas , Jennifer Rowe , David William Boutland , Annie Beach , David Worthington , Peter Dick , Robert Harris , Louise Crane , Chris Phillips , David Marsh , Jenny Lewis , Rick Held , Kathie Armstrong , Emma Honey , Bill Garner , Beverley Evans , Anthony Ellis , Mary McCormick , David Anthony , Carol Williams , Matthew Williams , Paul Davies , Craig Wilkins , Roger Dunn , Mary Graham , Harry Jordan , Geraldine Pilkington , Caroline Stanton , Grace Morris , Piers Hobson , Lyn Ogilvy , Deborah Parsons , Bob Cameron , Brian Bell , Kelly Lefever , Karin Altmann , Coral Drouyn , Jon Stephens , Marieke Hardy , Michael Brindley , Harriet Smith , Jo Merle , Chris Corbett , Tom Hegarty , Abe Pogos , Petra Graf , Anne Melville , Julie O'Brien , Peter Hepworth , Rob George , Jane Allen , Noel Maloney , Michael Voigt , Maureen Sherlock , Alison Nisselle , Elizabeth Coleman , John Ridley , Stuart Page , Jeff Truman , Rohan Trollope , Vicki Madden , Forrest Redlich , Jo Kasch , James Dunbar , Kylie Needham , Samantha Winston , ( dir. Mark Callan et. al. )agent 1994 Sydney Australia : Hal McElroy Southern Star Seven Network , 1994-2006 Z1367353 1994 series - publisher film/TV crime

A character-based television drama series about the lives of police officers in the fictitious Australian country town of Mt Thomas, this series began with the arrival of Constable Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) to the Mt Thomas station in the episode 'A Woman's Place'. Doyle and avuncular station boss Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon (John Wood) were the core characters of the series until the departure of Lisa McCune.

Immensely popular for a decade, Blue Heelers was cancelled in 2006 after thirteen seasons. The announcement was front-page news in Australia's major newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney's Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and The Age in Melbourne, and Brisbane's Courier Mail.

On June 8, 2006 Ross Warneke wrote in The Age:

'It's over and, to be perfectly blunt, there's no use lamenting the demise of Blue Heelers any more. When the final movie-length episode aired on Channel Seven on Sunday night, 1.5 million Australians tuned in, a figure that was big enough to give the show a win in its timeslot but nowhere near big enough to pay the sort of tribute that this writer believes Heelers deserved after more than 500 episodes.It is unlikely there will be anything like it again. At almost $500,000 an hour, shows such as Blue Heelers are quickly becoming the dinosaurs of Australian TV.'

1 Jack Drum's Entertainment David Allen , 1994 single work drama
1 Self-Satisfied Lust for the Bizarre David Allen , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 February 1994; (p. rev 6)

— Review of Swimming the Channel Jill Neville , 1993 single work novel
1 form y separately published work icon Deepwater Haven Port Cook Linden Wilkinson , Liddy Holloway , David Allen , Michael McGennan , Rick Maier , Ken Catran , David Phillips , Debra Oswald , ( dir. Mark DeFriest et. al. )agent Australia New Zealand France : Beyond Productions South Pacific Pictures F Productions , 1993 Z1890766 1993 series - publisher film/TV humour adventure crime children's

Australia-France-New Zealand co-production, set in New Zealand.

'Cooks Haven is a small community on the shores of the beautiful Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. Life working on the waterfront is filled with excitement and danger – runaways, illegal immigrants, smuggling, even modern day piracy.'

Source: South Pacific Picture. (Sighted: 25/6/2013)

1 Deluge David Allen , 1993 single work drama
1 5 form y separately published work icon Banjo Paterson's 'The Man from Snowy River' Snowy River: The McGregor Saga Nine Network (publisher), Peter Schreck , Peter A. Kinloch , Ted Roberts , Everett de Roche , David Phillips , Leon Saunders , Tony Morphett , Judith Colquhoun , Russell Hagg , Shane Brennan , Denny Lawrence , Patrick Edgeworth , Jan Sardi , Neil Luxmoore , Denise Morgan , Peter Gawler , Stuart Wood , Jutta Goetze , Jock Blair , Anthony Ellis , David Allen , ( dir. Tim Burstall et. al. )agent 1993 Australia : Nine Network , 1993-1996 Z400448 1993 series - publisher film/TV

Inspired by A. B. Paterson's classic poem and set in a fictional Snowy Mountains township called Paterson's Ridge, this turn-of-the-nineteenth-century adventure concerns wealthy cattle-station owner and widower Matt McGregor and his three children, Colin (the town preacher), Rob (played by Guy Pearce), and Danni (the tomboyish youngest daughter). Unresolved sexual tension comes in the shape of Matt's independent, free-spirited childhood friend, the recently widowed Kathleen O'Neil, who returns to Paterson's Ridge with her son after having spent many years in England.

1 form y separately published work icon Snowy David William Boutland , Vincent Gil , David Allen , Graeme Koetsveld , Roger Simpson , Robyn Sinclair , Mac Gudgeon , Peter A. Kinloch , Katherine Thomson , Australia : Simpson Le Mesurier Films Nine Network , 1993 7077697 1993 series - publisher film/TV

'The Logan family run a small hotel in the remote township of Cooma, a dusty yet peaceful place to call home. But the building of an enormous dam is about to turn Cooma into a wild new frontier. With the surge of hopeful immigrants, shady hustlers and colourful characters - life will never be quite the same for the Logan family - a dramatic existence seasoned with passion and danger, cultural intrigue and the inescapable bustle of change.'

Source: Publisher's blurb for the DVD release.

1 Modest Expectations David Allen , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Dialogue : Newsletter of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre , March no. 11 1992; (p. 3)
1 Native Tongue David Allen , 1991 single work drama
1 It's a Novel Experience : The World's a Stage David Allen , 1990 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 October 1990; (p. rev 7)
1 4 y separately published work icon Modest Expectations : An Entertainment David Allen , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1990 Z481830 1990 single work drama
1 form y separately published work icon E Street Forrest Redlich , Linden Wilkinson , Carol Williams , Sally Webb , Tim Pye , Caroline Stanton , Hugh Stuckey , John Upton , David William Boutland , Michael Cove , Mary Dagmar-Davies , Grant Fraser , Tom Galbraith , Graeme Koetsveld , Nicholas Langton , David Marsh , Forrest Redlich , Leon Saunders , David Phillips , Tom Hegarty , David Allen , Alexa Wyatt , John Banas , Louise Crane , Serge Lazareff , Rick Maier , Christine McCourt , Greg Millin , Craig Wilkins , Steve J. Spears , Chris Covington , Sammy Ringer , ( dir. Rod Hardy et. al. )agent Network Ten Westside Film & Television , 1989-1993 7210561 1989 series - publisher film/TV

A one-hour soap opera focusing on life in a gritty inner-city suburb.

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