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Certain Women – Episode 166 (1976)
Certain Women follows the lives of the Lucas and Stone families and their various relations by blood and marriage. In this episode, Helen Stone (Jenny Lee) has arrived home from England, heavily pregnant and without her husband, Michael Fraser (Ivor ... [read more]
The Fourth Wish (1974)
James Casey (John Meillon) is a single father attempting to grant his terminally ill son Sean (Mark Shields-Brown) three wishes before he dies. Sean wants to own a dog, be reunited with his mother and to meet the Queen. To ... [read more]
Against the Grain: More Meat than Wheat (1980)
Urban terrorist Ray Unit (Michael Callaghan) plants a smoke bomb at the Martin Place cenotaph in Sydney on Anzac Day. Travelling in disguise, Ray visits his mother, Elsie (Joy Burns), and family in suburban Perth. He discusses the predatory nature ... [read more]
Patrol Boat – Never Under the White Ensign (1979)
Patrol Boat is a television drama about the crew of a navy patrol boat, whose job it is to guard Australia’s coastal waters. In this episode Jacki Weaver guest stars as journalist Jenny Smith who visits HMAS Ambush to ... [read more]
Around the World in 80 Ways (1986)
Senile and almost blind, Roly Davis (Allan Penney) is aghast when he discovers wife Mavis Davis (Diana Davidson) has embarked on a round-the-world holiday with his next-door neighbour and business rival Alec Moffatt (Rob Steele). Roly’s sons, Wally (Philip Quast), ... [read more]
Dynasty – Have You Got the Numbers? (1970)
John (Ron Graham) is sick of playing second fiddle to his media mogul father Jack Mason (John Tate). He has helped run his father’s newspaper for 20 years and believes it’s his turn to take charge – but the old ... [read more]
The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
A group of opal miners live in a tin shed near the outback town of Andamooka in South Australia. The foreman, Tarzan (Gerard Kennedy), is known as ‘the last of the knucklemen’ for his ability as a bare-knuckle fighter. Tarzan’s ... [read more]
Dame Enid Lyons: Maiden Speech (1943)
Dame Enid Lyons reads her maiden speech in this sound recording for radio broadcast. Lyons was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australia’s federal parliament. [read more]
Living in the 70’s (1974)
This iconic seventies song and debut album by the Melbourne band Skyhooks took Australia by storm. In 1975, soon after the devastating Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin, the band was dubbed ‘Cyclone Skyhooks’. Their album featured the witty lyrics of Greg ... [read more]
Deck Dogz (2005)
Three teenage friends in western Sydney spend their lives on skateboards, clashing with police, parents and the school principal. Jay ‘Spasm’ Filkins (Sean Kennedy) dreams of being a professional skater, like his hero, Tony Hawk. Robert ‘Poker’ Benardi (Richard Wilson) ... [read more]
The Clinic (1982)
Medical student Paul Armstrong (Simon Burke) arrives at a busy Melbourne VD (venereal disease) clinic. Paul intends to study the work of Dr Eric Linden (Chris Haywood), Dr Carol Young (Rona McLeod) and Dr Hassad (Max Bruch). In the course ... [read more]
King of the Surf (1964)
In Sydney in 1964, the surfing fraternity welcomes the arrival of many of the world’s best surfers. They include young men from the USA, Hawaii, Great Britain, Peru, France, New Zealand and South Africa. After an official welcome at ... [read more]
Holy Smoke (1999)
While visiting India, young Australian woman Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) falls under the spell of a guru. Ruth’s alarmed mother, Miriam (Julie Hamilton), travels to Delhi and lures Ruth home with a lie that her father (Tim Robertson) is terminally ... [read more]
Wheel of Fortune – Series 3 Episode 1 (1990)
Wheel of Fortune is hosted by John Burgess and Adriana Xenides, with voice-over by John Deeks. In this edition of the long-running game show, three contestants compete for prizes including a Holden car. Over three rounds Kelly, Mark and carry-over ... [read more]
Stone Bros. (2009)
Eddie (Luke Carroll) works as a cleaner in a museum. His cousin Charlie (Leon Burchill) loves smoking cannabis, partying and having fun. While visiting Eddie at his workplace, Charlie knocks over a large photographic display causing both men to flee ... [read more]
Sale of the Century – Series 1 Episode 1 (1980)
Host Tony Barber and co-host Victoria Nicholls introduce the quiz contestants on the first episode of Sale of the Century. Each player starts with $20 in the bank and competes to press the buzzer first for an opportunity to answer ... [read more]
Reg Grundy’s Wheel of Fortune (1959)
Host Reg Grundy informs viewers of the prizes to be won and introduces carry-over champion Evan Sutton. Evan earns a perfect score in the first round by answering correctly six questions about Shakespeare. Grundy spins the ‘Reg Grundy Wheel of ... [read more]
Toomelah (2011)
Ten-year-old Daniel (Daniel Connors) lives in Toomelah, a remote Aboriginal community in north-west New South Wales. He lives with his mother (Dorothy Cubby), a drug user, and sees his ex-boxer father (Michael Connors) hanging around the streets drinking metho (methylated ... [read more]
Snowtown (2010)
Snowtown is an account of the infamous Snowtown, or Bodies in the Barrels, murders, named after the discovery of eight bodies in an empty bank vault in the South Australian town of Snowtown in May 1999. Two more bodies were ... [read more]
The Far Paradise (1928)
Cherry Carson (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’), who has spent years overseas, is on her way home when she meets and is attracted to Peter Lawton (Paul Longuet), son of attorney-general Howard Lawton (John Faulkner). While Peter’s father welcomes ... [read more]
