In 1971, the Seven Network had bold plans for a new “provocative and bawdy” series set in Melbourne in the 1880s. The network had a proposal titled Man Of Property, starring Robin Ramsay, formerly of Bellbird, in the lead role of a strait-laced English doctor living in Melbourne at the end of the gold rush …
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Jul 20 2023
On This Day — 20 July
20 July 1974: Joanne Samuel (Class Of ’74) 20 July 1985: Maggie Kirkpatrick (Prisoner) 20 July 1991: Richard Huggett (Neighbours), Rebecca Elmaloglou (Home And Away), Melissa Tkautz (E Street) 20 July 1996: Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) and Dieter Brummer (Garage, Shark Bay) 20 July 2002: Ada Nicodemou (Home And Away) 20 July 1973: The Evil …
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Jul 14 2023
On This Day — 14 July
14 July 1973: Peter Aanensen (Bellbird) 14 July 1973: Candy Raymond and Vicki Raymond (Number 96) 14 July 1979: Elspeth Ballantyne, Patsy King, Fiona Spence (Prisoner) 14 July 1990: Jana Wendt (A Current Affair) 14 July 2001: Gretel Killeen (Big Brother), Judith McGrath (All Saints), Cornelia Frances (The Weakest Link), Jackie O (Popstars), Ita Buttrose …
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Jul 12 2023
On This Day — 12 July
12 July 1969: Ted Hamilton, Chuck Faulkner, Gerard Kennedy (Division 4) 12 July 1975: Serge Lazareff, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Gus Mercurio (Cash And Company) 12 July 1975: Joe Hasham, Margaret Laurence, Pamela Gibbons (Number 96) 12 July 1980: Gerard Maguire and Sheila Florance (Prisoner) 12 July 1997: Tempany Deckert and Ben Unwin (Home And Away) 12 …
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Jun 18 2023
On This Day — 18 June
18 June 2005: Bec Cartwright and Kip Gamblin (Home And Away) 18 June 1967: Remember the Sunday night movie? Tonight, your choices are: The Hurricane (1937), Operation Petticoat (1959) and My Son John (1952). 18 June 1980: The acclaimed documentary The Last Tasmanian is shown in Perth two years after appearing in the eastern states and …
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Apr 30 2022
New doco to explore our LGBTQ TV journey
It is fair to say that Australian television has had a progressive approach to queer representation, dating back to 1970s serials Number 96, The Box and later Prisoner, when other countries were still barely touching on the subject. While the AIDS crisis in the 1980s led to a regression in this representation, things started to …
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