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Joey’s abduction (1994)

After media attention when her children are abducted, journalist Jacqueline Gillespie starts to get calls from other parents of kidnapped children. She talks to other parents around the world. Carolyn’s son Joey was abducted by his father, Alan. The emotional ... [read more]

Bernard Holtermann (1983)

Bernard Holtermann was a German migrant who arrived in Australia in 1858. In 1882 Holtermann found the largest gold nugget unearthed in the world at the time. He used his newly found riches to set up as a photographer. His ... [read more]

A Greek Easter (2004)

Sydney’s Greek community come together at Easter to celebrate a great religious festival. The story intercuts the religious elements and the food making elements to show that the tradition is still very strong and is being handed down from generation ... [read more]

Bondi bush baby (1936)

Chut explores his forest world, hopping about madly, as his mother keeps a watchful eye. He encounters many strange things – a koala moving from one tree to another and a bossy emu that chases him, until an older kangaroo ... [read more]

Getting a rise out of Barry (1963)

Star contestant Barry Jones features in this episode as the Australian contestant in the ‘World Championship Quiz – Australia versus New Zealand’, which is in its eighth round in this episode. Here, host Bob Dyer tries to ‘get a rise’ ... [read more]

Yindi goes exploring (1996)

After overcoming an earlier threat to his survival from a car accident, Yindi the koala emerges from his mother’s pouch. He starts to explore the world, unaware that a new threat to his safety is just around the corner. [read more]

Placid works in insurance (2003)

Placid (Ben Lee) thinks it would do him good to work in a structured environment with a lot of normal people, he tells insurance executive Joel (Christopher Stollery). Joel shows him around the office and tells him that the insurance ... [read more]

‘The penalty is death’ (1979)

Morant (Edward Woodward), Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) meet their lawyer, Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson), a country solicitor. It is one day before their trial is to start, and they are horrified to discover their lawyer has ... [read more]

‘I’d really like for you to be there’ (1998)

Headmaster Carson (John Gregg) invites student Marco (Danny Raco) to be his partner at an inter-school lawn bowls competition. Meanwhile Zac (Luke Jacobz) and Tess (Katherine Hicks) continue to explore Tess’s belief in the paranormal. When Zac confides in Tess ... [read more]

Frankie goes to Kapooka (1969)

Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) enters basic training at Kapooka camp, but neither the food nor the discipline agrees with him. Sergeant Quinn (Peter Aanensen) waits for him to slip up, during harsh training on the obstacle course. [read more]

Grim drought’s devastating hand (1920)

The drought has dried up rivers and creeks and cracked the earth around Wallaby Station, but Jo Galloway (Charles Beetham) holds on grimly. His stockmen cut down trees to feed hungry sheep. They are so hungry the stockmen have trouble ... [read more]

Night watch (1980)

Rod Carson (Ian Gilmour) and Vic Richards (Harold Hopkins) are both on night watch. They get talking over a cigarette and Carson asks Richards why he seems to bear him a grudge. [read more]

A ride in the old bus (1934)

Mr McBride (Frank Bradley) takes Monty (Frank Leighton) to Mascot to meet the ‘flying parson’ (Eric Colman). Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, playing himself, offers to take them for a joyride over Sydney. [read more]

A meeting of minds (2003)

News footage shows John Howard and George Bush at a press conference together at the White House prior to the invasion of Iraq. Despite the phalanx of media, they appear relaxed and seem the best of mates, with the US ... [read more]

Avian flu in Hong Kong (2005)

In 1997 Avian flu erupted in Hong Kong. The government destroyed all chickens and the outbreak was contained. Virologists Robert Webster and Albert Osterhaus talk about the potential for human transmission. [read more]

Antipodean Chagall (1994)

Australian painter Arthur Boyd painted his 'Half-Caste Bride’ series in the 1950s, drawing international attention to his work. Art curator Barry Pearce explains how Boyd’s exposure to European painters like Goya gave him a new perspective on his own work. [read more]

Painting by hand (1985)

Painter Arthur Boyd uses his hands to paint. He says that the method is sensual and allows him to better depict his intent. [read more]

Asylum seekers at work (2002)

Afghan asylum seekers are good employees in the rural Victorian town of Loxton. The then Minister for Immigration, Phillip Ruddock, argues that they are not necessarily entitled to permanent status. [read more]

Passionate painter (1988)

We see samples of Tony Tuckson’s later work in a gallery, while in voice-over friends and colleagues discuss his work, and the changes he went through in later life. [read more]

‘It’s just us’ (1972)

Aliens broadcast a warning on the radio. Shirley’s mother Rita (Marion Johns), her father Reg (John Llewellyn) and suitor Harold (Helmut Bakaitis) don’t take any notice. Shirley tells the gang it’s up to them to help the aliens. [read more]

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