CABARET to CITY WEST - AUSTRALIAN TV
CABARET
SBS / x60m-e / 1980-82
Variety show broadcast Sunday nights, the first such show to be broadcast on SBS. Hosted by Joe Hasham.
CAFE CONTINENTAL
ABC / x30m-e / 1958-61 black and white
Producers: Harry Pringle (1958-60) and Peter Page (1961) / Creator: Hal Wayne
Live
variety show broadcast fortnightly and focusing on
entertainment from many different countries. Hosted by Hal
Wayne and also featuring Helen de Paul's Can Can Dancers and Enzo
Toppano (who supplied the music).
THE CAKE MAN
ABC / 1x75m-e / 1978
Writer: Robert J. Merritt from his own play/ Producer/Director: Douglas Sharp
Drama. The Cakeman, an aboriginal storyteller, tells tales of the white man's colonisation of Australia at the expense of the rights of the native aboriginals.
CALL ME A LIAR
ABC / 1x80m-e / 1961 black and white
Producer/Director: William Sterling / Writer: John Mortimer
Comedy drama. A young man, given to flights of fancy, falls in love with a girl who tries to make him change his ways.
With:- David Mitchell, Jane
Oehr, Barbara Brandon, Rose du Clos, Kenneth Goodlet, Campbell Copelin, Joe Jenkins.
CANDID CAMERA
10 Network / x30m-e / 1989-90
Music: Rick Turk
Hidden camera show based on the famous US original which set people up to make fools of themselves by playing inane pranks on them. Hosted by Tony Murphy and Lisa Peers.
CAPRICCIO
ABC / 30x60m-e / 1978-80
Producers: Anthony Hughes, Ray Huggett
An entertainment show which took the form of finding out about the musical tastes of well known people from the world of TV, Music, Sport etc. Hosts were Carol Raye (1978), Walter Sullivan (1979) and Don Dunstan (1980). Guests included the likes of Abigail (1978), Reg Varney, Warren Mitchell, Jill Perryman, Ray Barrett, Judge Frank McGrath, Lorraine Bayly and Tommy Tycho.
THE CARLETON-WALSH REPORT
ABC / x30m-e / 1985-87
Current affairs type show hosted by Richard Carleton and Max Walsh and mainly focusing on political issues. For some of it's 1987 run the shows title switched to The Walsh Report when Richard Carleton dropped out.
CARROTS
7 Network / 98x30m-e / 1979
Writer/Producer: Michael Lawrence / Director: Roger Bliss
Children's sitcom. Stories of the staff and stars of a TV show starring a rabbit.
With:- JAMES CONDON / SHEILA KENNELLY / BRENDON LUNNEY / GREG BEPPER / FRANK HRUBY / HELEN HOUGH
CARRY ON SID
HSV7 / 1x30m-e 1x60m-e / 1972
Producer: Geoffrey Owen-Taylor
A pair of specials starring English comedy actor Sid James, the first half hour show took the form of Sid looking at clips from various Carry On movies, the second was a straightforward variety show with songs and sketches etc.
CASEBOOK
7 Network / x30m-e / 1966-68
Producer: John Ponds
This afternoon show was hosted by "Dr John" (Dr John Cobley - a general physician at the Sydney Royal Hospital for Women and Royal Prince Alfred).a professional doctor, the aim of the show was to dispense medical advice and all the patients were real, several of Dr John's real medical colleagues appeared as themselves - many were quite prominent Australian physicians and surgeons.
CASE FOR THE DEFENCE
10 Network-Grundy / 9x90m-e / 1976
Creator: Ron McLean
Anthology series of feature length courtroom dramas made originally in 1976 for the Nine Network but shown on 10 in 1978. Writers included the prolific Tony Morphett, Ron McLean, Anne Brooksbank and Rob Ellis.
CASEY
ABC / 1x60m-e / Wednesday 9 December 1970 / 9.50pm
Documentary looking at the life of Australia's former Governor Genral Lord Casey from his birth in Brisbane in 1890 to his installation as a Knight of the Garter at Windsor Castle nearly 80 years later. Tony Hayden spoke to both Lord and Lady Casey at their home.
CASINO 10
10
Network/Grundy Organisation x25m-e / 1975-77
Producer: Andrew Brooke
Afternoon
quiz using casino type games. Hosted by Steve
Raymond, who was later replaced by Phillip Brady. Kathy Ford
acted as hostess.
CASS
9 Network-Grundy / 1x75m-e / 1978
Writer: Laura Jones / Music: Rory O'Donoghue / Producer: Don Harley / Director: Chris Noonan
Drama. Film maker Cass struggles to adjust to her old way of life after returning to Australia.
With:- MICHELE FAWDEN / JOHN WALTERS / MAX CULLEN / PETER CARROLL / ANNA VOLSKA / PETER WHITFORD / JOHN EWART / JUDY MORRIS
CATALYST
ABC / x30m-e / 1990 and then revived 2001 (First Episode: Thursday 9 August / 8.30pm)
News and views type series which each week looked at interesting science ideas and stories; from searching for the remains of a giant flying reptile in Queensland to studying the world of NASA. Kaarin Fairfax was host of the 1990 version.
CATCH US IF YOU CAN
7 Network-Lyle McCabe / 30x30m-e / 1981
Producer: Peter Luck
Weekday "prank" show very much in the mould of Candid Camera. Presented by Bryan Davies with Grant Dodwell, Edith Bliss, Deborah Gray and Ian McRae.
CC TV
Ten Network / x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Sunday 5 August / 8.00pm)
An entertainment show in which people on the street were given the chance to win 100 hundred dollars by performing various silly stunts and so on.
THE CELEBRITY GAME
9-NLT (1969) and 10-Grundy(1976-77) / x30m-e / 1969 and 1976-77
A celebrity charades type show with two teams of celebs doing battle against each other. Seen first on 9 hosted by Bert Newton and then revived in 1976 with Mike Preston.
CELEBRITY SQUARES
9 and 10 / x30m-e / 1967 and 1975-76
This game show was based on the US Hollywood Squares and took the old noughts and crosses as its theme. Two members of the public asked nine celebs various questions and had to decide who was telling the truth, each correct answer gave them either a nought or a cross etc. Initially on 9 hosted by John Bailey and then revived on 10 with Jimmy Hannan.
CELEBRITY TITTLE TATTLE
7-Grundy / x30m-e / 1980
Game show featuring celebs telling tall stories amongst other things. Hosted by Ugly Dave Gray.
CHAINS OF LOVE
9 Network / x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Thursday 18 October / 9.30pm)
Reality style game show/dating program hosted by Rozz Switzer that saw each week one person known as a "heart" attached to four "chainees" of the opposite sex, they spent a week together in the Chains of Love house (having to sleep in the same bed and so on). The Heart then decides which of the group they would like to leave until only one chainee remains. The chainee could then decide whether they wanted to see the "heart" again. Based on a UK original that was hosted by Mel, one of the stars of the first Big Brother.
CHAN CANASTA
ABC / 8x30m-e / 1965 black and white
Magic show hosted by the "illusionist" of the title. Canasta had to prove his tricks in front of a celeb panel and overall host of the show was Bob Sanders.
CHANCES
9 Network-Beyond / 125x60m-e / 1991
Executive Producer: Brendon Lunney / Producer: Lynn Bayonas
Soap opera in the style of Melrose Place but with sex and nudity unlimited a kind of 1990's Number 96. When Dan and Barbara Taylor win a million dollar lottery, their lives and the lives of their extended family quickly change. Over the course of the shows run cast members came and went with alarming regularity with later episodes tending to focus on manipulative businessman Alex Taylor (Dan and Barbara's son).
With:- JOHN SHEERIN AS DAN TAYLOR / BRENDA ADDIE AS BARBARA TAYLOR / JEREMY SIMS AS ALEX TAYLOR / NATALIE MCCURRY AS REBECCA YOUNG / CATHY GODBOLD AS NICKI TAYLOR / YVONNE LAWLEY AS HEATHER MCGLASHAN / TIM ROBERTSON AS JACK TAYLOR / ANNE GRIGG AS SARAH TAYLOR / LEVERNE MCDONNELL AS PHILLIPA TAYLOR / RHYS MULDOON AS BEN TAYLOR / DEBORAH KENNEDY AS CONNIE REYNOLDS / MARK KOUNNAS AS CHRIS REYNOLDS / SIMON GREY AS SAM REYNOLDS / KIMBERLEY DAVENPORT AS CHARLIE GIBSON / MICHAEL CATON AS BILL ANDERSON / PETER PHELPS AS DAVID HENSEN / DIANE CRAIG AS BARBARA TAYLOR / MOUCHE PHILLIPS AS NICKI TAYLOR
CHANGES
ABC / 6x30m-e / 1980
Producer: John Van Den Beld / Director: Mark Callan, Mary Belahunty
Six celebrities talk to Jock Rankin about pivotal moments in their lives. The 6 were:- Stephen Holland, Tracey Wickham, Terry Kennewell, Jill Cairns, Sam Gulle and Sally-Ann Bourne.
CHANGING ROOMS
9 Network-Bazalgette / x30m-e / 1998-continuing
Lifestyle. Two sets of friends team up with interior designers to makeover a room in each others homes armed only with a budget of $1500 and their imagination. Based on a UK original and hosted by Suzie Wilks and also featuring Peter Everett, James Lindsay, Catherine Morton, Tim Janenko-Panaeff.
THE CHANNEL 9 SHOW
9 / x60m-e / 1962 black and white
Variety show hosted by Bert Newton from Melbourne and much in the style of the Tonight Show.
CHARLES WOOLEY'S CONTINENTAL DRIFT
9 Network / 1x60m-e / 2000
Documentary. 60 Minutes reporter Charles Wooley spends 7 weeks travelling around the country to take an up close look at rural Australia.
CHEQUERBOARD
ABC / 130x40m-e / 1969-75 black and white
Excellent series of individual documentaries of all kinds and covering many important social issues. Based on the UK show Man Alive.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
ABC / 1x120m-e / 16 June 1973
Play: Anton Chekhov / Producer/Director: David Zweck
Period drama. In Russia a young woman finds her life going through a change. A Melbourne Theatre Company production. Special dances arranged by Wendy Robertson.
With:- Googie Withers as Madame Ranevsky / Wendy Hughes as Anya / Jennifer Claire as Varya / Frank Thring as Gaev / Irene Inescort as Charlotto Ivanovana
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
ABC / 13x60m-e / 199?
Executive Producer: Steve Knapman / Producer: Danny Lawrence
Drama series. Episodes in the lives of the staff and patients of a busy children's hospital.
With:- GENNIE NEVINSON / RACHEL SEALAY / DEBORAH GALANOS / JODIE DRY / IAN STENLAKE
CHILDREN'S TV CLUB
ABC / x60m-e / 1957-61 black and white
Children's entertainment from TV's early days and featuring Michael St Clair introducing cartoons, stories and so on. Shown each weekday afternoon. Ross Higgins also hosted during 1958.
CHILD'S PLAY
7 / x30m-e / 1984
Celebrity panel game show based on the UK version. A trio of celebs had to to guess which words groups of children (in filmed segments) were talking about.
THE CHOSEN
Beyond-Communicado Ltd-NZ on Air / 2x90m-e / 1997
Executive Producer: Robin Scholes
The Chosen are a fanatical religious sect held firmly under the spell of a charismatic leader. Opposition is silenced in weird and sometimes bloody. ways. It seems as if the whole town has fallen under a curse. the story of a typical rural town under threat from a force more insidious and vindictive than anyone can imagine. It is also a grand love story between a girl passionately seeking a meaning to life and a priest desperately seeking to live up to his pledge.
CHUCK FINN
7 Network-Barron TV Prod. / x25m-e / 1999
Devisors: John D. Barron, Peter Hepworth / Executive Producers: Paul D. Barron, Joan Peters / Script Editor: Annie Fox / Producers: Peter Hepworth, Barbi Taylor, Paul D. Barron
Children's fantasy adventure series. Canadian Chuck Finn moves to a small Australian town. Chuck is heavy on the fantasy with ghosts from across time making regular appearances in the world of Chuck Finn and his friends.
With:- Luke O'Loughlin as Chuck / Cassandra Kane as Sarah / Johnny Nicolaidis as Hamish / Amelia Knight as Becky / Larena Charlesworth as Linda / Glenn McMillan as Tiny / Thomas Lambert as Davo
CITY WEST
SBS-Ferryman / 7x60m-e / 1983
Writers: Colin Free, Cliff Green / Music: Themox Mexis / Producer: Eric Fullilove
Drama series. (SBS's first) Stories of the staff and clients of a Legal Aid Centre in Glenwood, Sydney.
With:- GRIGOR TAYLOR / REBECCA GILLING / GOSIA DOBROWOLSKA / LEX MARINOS / HENRI SZEPS as Dr Mikus Kuskis
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