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Lift Off children's series: 1992-1994

Lift Off is a television series for young children aged three to eight. It is an unusual mixture of live action, puppetry, animation and documentary, using storytelling, drama ... [read more]

Good Guys Bad Guys drama series: 1997-1998

Meet Elvis Maginnis (Marcus Graham) – ex-cop, drycleaner, reluctant detective. Elvis was the white sheep in a family of criminals, especially after he joined the police. Being from the ... [read more]

Flipper and Lopaka children's series: 1999-2005

Flipper & Lopaka is a 2D animation series based on the famous dolphin in the original US film and television live-action series. Set around a beautiful and exotic South ... [read more]

Skippy drama series: 1966-1969

An Australian drama series made in the 1960s featuring nine-year-old Sonny Hammond (Garry Pankhurst) and crime-fighting ‘bush Kangaroo’ Skippy. Sonny, constant companion and best friend to Skippy, lives ... [read more]

Cop Shop drama series: 1977-1983

A police drama with soap elements, which follows the work and personal lives of staff at Riverside police station. [read more]

Number 96 serial: 1972-1977

Number 96 is a soap opera set in a block of flats in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Paddington. Its residents include a Jewish shopkeeper, his tearaway daughter ... [read more]

Homicide drama series: 1964-1976

A drama series about a team of detectives in the Homicide Squad at Melbourne’s Russell Street police headquarters. [read more]

Chequerboard Revisited reality series: 2000-2001

A 'where are they now’ series combining footage originally shot for the groundbreaking ABC documentary series Chequerboard (1968-1975) with contemporary stories about some of those same characters today. [read more]

Chequerboard reality series: 1969-1975

A half hour documentary series that pioneers the 'fly on the wall’ approach that began observational documentary filmmaking in Australia. Each week the program would be about people ... [read more]

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