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Beyond 2000 magazine program: 1985-1999

A magazine-style television series for prime time television about the scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations affecting society. It included 397 hour-long episodes and 78 half-hour episodes. [read more]

Eugénie Sandler PI children's series: 2000-2000

Fifteen years have passed since private investigator Ray Sandler (Brett Climo) fled from Versovia with an unknown baby girl in the back seat of his car. Eugénie (Xaris ... [read more]

Foreign Exchange children's series: 2004-2004

The adventure of a lifetime happens to fourteen-year-old Brett (Zachery Garred) when he discovers a portal in the old house where he lives in Perth, Western Australia. He ... [read more]

Raggs children's series: 2005-

Raggs is a live-action preschool show based around five giant-sized dog characters that perform as the 'Raggs Kids Club Band’, a rock-n-roll band for preschool kids. The TV ... [read more]

Backchat interstitial series: 1986-1995

Twice weekly from 9.20 pm until 9.30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Backchat journalist Tim Bowden presented audience letters about the ABC’s output on radio ... [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]

Sky Trackers children's series: 1994-1994

Three kids live with their families at Kaputar Space Station, a massive space tracking station in outback Australia. Nikki Colbert (Petra Jared) is 13 and passionately loves science ... [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]

Four Corners current affairs program: 1961-

ABC TV’s weekly national current affairs program that reports on events that shape Australia, broadcast weekly on Monday nights at 8.30 pm with repeats throughout the ... [read more]

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]

Faireez children's series: 2005-2005

Faireez is a 2D digitally animated preschool animation series set in Faireezia, a magical, enchanted world with floating castles, shivering timbers, gotcha streams – and 'faireez’. At the fairee ... [read more]

Ocean Girl children's series: 1994-1997

Ocean Girl is a 78 episode fantasy, live action drama following the adventures and personal growth of the amazing ocean girl Neri (Marzena Godecki) and her young friends ... [read more]

Double Trouble children's series: 2007-2007

Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of the other’s existence. City-dwelling Yuma (Cassandra Glenn) meets ... [read more]

Wildside drama series: 1997-1999

A drama series set around an inner city police station and the crisis centre next door, run by Doctor Maxine Summers (Rachael Blake). The crisis centre’s clients ... [read more]

Australian Story reality series: 1995-

Each Monday evening at 8pm, the ABC broadcasts this half hour program about an Australian, often a personality but sometimes an unknown. These biographical stories are nearly always ... [read more]

Bambaloo children's series: 2002-2003

Bambaloo is a theme-based preschool show designed for three to five-year-olds. The host Sam (Angela Kelly) lives in the Bambaloo tree and, with her puppet friends, explores the ... [read more]

Play School children's series: 1966-

Based on the British program of the same name (produced by the BBC from 1964 until 1988) Play School is the longest-running children’s series on Australian television ... [read more]

Media Watch interstitial series: 1989-

Media Watch is a weekly 15-minute program that offers analysis and criticism of Australia’s media and print, radio, television and online journalism. The program is led by ... [read more]

Fergus McPhail children's series: 2004-2004

Fergus McPhail (Sean Ohlendorf) is an awkward, likeable teenager trying to make his way in a new city when his family moves to Melbourne. Desperate to be cool ... [read more]

Mortified children's series: 2006-2006

This comedy drama series charts young Taylor Fry’s (Marny Kennedy) unpredictable and at times eccentric two-year journey towards self-acceptance. At the beginning of the series, Taylor is ... [read more]

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