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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Woobinda - Animal Doctor
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Film Details - NLT Productions ; ABC Television ; Nine Network , 1969-1970

Producers:

Roger Mirams

Production Companies:

NTL Productions

Cast:

1. Regular cast/characters: Don Pacoe (John Stevens), Sonia Hofmann (Tiggie Stevens), Bindi Williams (Kevin Stevens), Lutz Hochstraate (Peter Fischer), Slim deGrey (Jack Johnson), Shirley Smith (Hospital nurse).
2. Guest cast/characters incl. Ben Blakeney, Sheila Bradley, Max Cullen (q.v.), Frankie Davidson, Slim deGrey, Lisa Dent, Steve Dodd, Norm Erskine, Reg Evans, Tom Farley, Chuck Faulkner, Barbara Frawley, Gerry Gallagher, Stewart Ginn, Ken Goodlet, Reg Gorman, Ross Higgins, Edward Howell, Rod Hull, Clarissa Kay, Margo Lee, Alexandra Long, Nigel Lovell, Barry Lovett, Kerry McGuire, John McLaren, Richard Meikle, John Meillon, Red Moore, Max Phipps (q.v.), Danny Purches, John Quilan, Chips Rafferty, Billy Raymond, Stan Roach, Grant Seidon, Maggie Stuart, Pat Sullivan, Jack Thompson (q.v.), Mark Towers, Ray Victor, Jacki Weaver (q.v.), Harry Williams, Norman Yemm.

Release Dates:

1969: First aired in Melbourne on 3 June. The series was later aired in Sydney on 27 May; Brisbane on 10 June; Perth on 17 June; Adelaide on 24 June; and Hobart on 1 July.

Notes:

1. The first 26 episodes were filmed in 1968, and another 13 were made commencing in March 1969. A pilot episode was filmed in February 1968 with the working title Animal Doctor. By April, the series had been retitled Woobinda: Animal Doctor.
2. NLT was joined in the venture by Ajax Films and Fremantle International, and German television also had a financial interest in the project. Locally, the series was sold to the Australian Broadcasting Commission and, in an unusual move, also to the Nine Network. Contemporary reports stated that the ABC had first screening rights for the initial series of 26 episodes, which would then be repeated on the Nine Network. Nine would then have first screening rights to the second series, followed by a repeat on the ABC. What actually happened was that the ABC screened all 39 episodes, commencing in 1969, and then repeated the series in 1970. All subsequent repeats were on the Nine Network, commencing from 1971.
3. For further details on the Woobinda series, see the Classic Australian Television (q.v.) website.

List of episodes

1. Not My Kind of Country (Michael Wright)

2. Smoke Signals (Author unknown)

3. Crocodile Hunters (Michael Wright)

4. Trouble with Chico (Author unknown)

5. The Exterminators (Author unknown)

6. Eye Witness (Author unknown)

7. The Crop Duster (Author unknown)

8. Birds of a Feather (Author unknown)

9. The Rustler (Author unknown)

10. Nine Lives (Author unknown)

11. Bounty Hunter (Author unknown)

12. Panic (Author unknown)

13. That's What Friends Are For (Author unknown)

14. Sound of Danger (Author unknown)

15. A Dog's Best Friend (Author unknown)

16. Nobody Comes Here Anymore (Author unknown)

17. The Runaways (Author unknown)

18. Deadly Cargo (Author unknown)

19. Trapped (Author unknown)

20. Sleeping Dogs Don't Lie (Author unknown)

21. The Champion (Author unknown)

22. Doctor Fugitive (Author unknown)

23. Noel's Ark (Author unknown)

24. A Life for a Life (Eddie Hepple)

25. Where Dead Men Lie (Suzanne Baker & Malcolm Hulke)

26. Ghost Town (Stan Mars)

27. No Love for Theodore (Author unknown)

28. The Joker (Author unknown)

29. The Companions (Michael Wright)

30. Rescue (Michael Wright)

31. Talk to My Agent (Ron McLean)

32. The Carrier (Author unknown)

33. Gallena Ridge (Ron McLean)

34. Lenny (Author unknown)

35. Second Sight (Author unknown)

36. Loaded Message (Author unknown)

37. Caesar Was Shot (Author unknown)

38. Chocolate, Cherry or Pistachio (Author unknown)

39. Silent Witness (Malcolm Hulke)


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