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Blue Heelers drama series: 1994-2006

Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Woods), the men and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Silver Brumby children's series: 1994-1996

Set in the majesty of the Australian high country, and based on the characters created by Elyne Mitchell in her much-loved Silver Brumby books, this series follows the ...

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 ...

Masterpiece Specials magazine program: 1995-1998

A series of hour-long interviews with celebrity writers, actors and television personalities such as Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka and Judy Davis, presented as long form studio-based interviews with ...

The Genie From Down Under children's series: 1995-1998

The Genie from Down Under is a 26-part comedy drama about a clash of class and cultures. The Hon. Penelope Townes (Alexandra Milman) is thirteen years old and ...

Stateline current affairs program: 1996-

A state-based half-hour current affairs program that airs once a week on Fridays in the same timeslot as the daily current affairs program The 7.30 Report (2008 ...

The Foodlovers’ Guide to Australia magazine program: 1996-2005

This magazine style program, broadcast each week on SBS television for almost a decade, celebrates Australian people, their cooking and their produce with the show’s presenters, Maeve ...

Water Rats drama series: 1996-2001

Water Rats is a drama series centred on a pair of detectives in the Sydney Water Police.

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 ...

Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers children's series: 1997-1998

Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers is an animated comedy adventure series about a boy called Li’l Elvis Jones (Stig Wemyss) who lives in the tiny ...

Skippy Adventures in Bushtown children's series: 1997-1998

Skippy the bush kangaroo is a capable, upright 'copter-flying’ park ranger who is the unofficial leader and resident good guy in Bushtown. With his friend Matilda the local ...

Tabaluga children's series: 1997-2003

Tabaluga is the animated story of the last surviving dragon on earth. The tiny green hero uses courage and kindness, combined with some incredible fire-breathing and flying skills ...

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 ...

Crash Zone children's series: 1998-1999

Crash Zone is a 26-part series exploring the adventures, trials and tribulations of a group of five young teenagers in the context of the 21st century cyber world ...

Stingers drama series: 1998-2004

Stingers follows agents in a police undercover unit who create false names, lives and personalities to get close to their targets. Even the Stingers team’s nearest and ...

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 ...

Message Stick magazine program: 1999-2012

Message Stick is a television magazine program that presents Indigenous articles that are both current and historical.

Thunderstone children's series: 1999-2000

Thunderstone is the story of a boy and his quest to save the world’s animals. The year is 2020. Fifteen-year-old Noah (Jeffrey Walker) lives with his family ...

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.

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 ...

Horace and Tina children's series: 2000-2001

Lauren (Jasmine Ellis), a 13-year-old Canadian, is miserable. Her mother has dragged her halfway around the world to live with a new stepfather and an annoying little stepbrother ...

The New Adventures of Ocean Girl children's series: 2000-2000

This 26-part animation is a mythical story set on the once peaceful planet of Oceana, where the sacred whales are the keepers of all wisdom and custodians of ...

Australians at War documentary series: 2001-2001

An eight-hour historical television series which chronicles significant events in Australia’s military history including the Boer War in the late nineteenth century, the First and Second World ...

Catalyst magazine program: 2001-

A weekly magazine-style program that explores fascinating and groundbreaking science research both from Australia and overseas. It often includes footage of how scientists work in the field and ...

Dynasties documentary series: 2001-2006

The stories behind some of Australia’s great dynastic families, the way they have shaped our society, their private motivations and their ongoing influence.

Short Cuts children's series: 2001-

Set in a year 9 media studies class, Short Cuts is a 26-part television series about a group of teenagers – Oscar (Damien Bodie), Fiona (Katie Barnes), Sophie (Gemma ...

The Secret Life of Us drama series: 2001-2004

The Secret Life of Us is an apartment-block drama about a group of 20-somethings in a beach-side inner suburb of Melbourne.

Tracey McBean children's series: 2001-2006

Grade four girl-genius Tracey McBean (voiced by Roslyn Oades) is a feisty, funny inventor with a gigantic imagination and an overwhelming desire to use her wacky creations to ...

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 ...

Don’t Blame the Koalas children's series: 2002-2002

When the penniless, upper-middle-class 'Kings’ of England inherit an Australian wildlife park, life for them, and for their cousins, the 'Kings’ of Australia, will never be the same ...

Kath and Kim sitcom: 2002-2007

Kath and Kim is a comedy series about a mother and daughter in the fictional outer suburb of Fountain Lakes. Kath Day (Jane Turner) is enjoying life as ...

Legacy of the Silver Shadow children's series: 2002-2002

Legacy of the Silver Shadow is a 13-part comedy-drama series that presents superheroes in a new light. Playing on the popularity of comic book and television superheroes such ...

The Fairytale Police Department children's series: 2002-2002

For some reason, the world’s best-known fairytales aren’t ending the way they should: Rapunzel is missing from her tower, Little Red Riding Hood isn’t making ...

Fashionista interstitial series: 2003-2005

Fashionista offers a snapshot of what’s happening and what’s hot in Australian fashion, riding the wave of interest in our designers shown by overseas buyers and ...

If Only magazine program: 2003-2003

'If only’ we’d done or said something else, perhaps things would have turned out differently. That’s the premise of this documentary-style magazine program.

Mum’s the Word talk show: 2003-2003

A series of studio discussions led by the journalist Rebecca le Tourneau with a different group of women each week talking freely and frankly about the highs and ...

Snobs children's series: 2003-2003

The middle class citizens of Eden Beach, a pretty, tranquil village on Sydney’s northern beaches, are challenged when a group of alternative travellers or modern day nomads ...

Wicked Science children's series: 2003-2005

Wicked Science Series One is the story of two fifteen-year-olds, all-round good bloke Toby (André de Vanny) and the unpopular Elizabeth (Bridget Neval), who are hit by a ...

At The Movies magazine program: 2004-

A magazine program in which Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review the latest film releases including features and documentaries. They conclude each review with their a rating out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Love My Way drama series: 2004-2007

Love My Way follows the story of 30-something artist and single mother Frankie (Claudia Karvan) and the extended family who surround the daughter she shares with ex-partner Charlie ...

Noah and Saskia children's series: 2004-

Noah and Saskia is an innovative series mixing animation and visual effects with actors in a story about two teenagers from opposite sides of the world who find ...

The New Inventors magazine program: 2004-2011

A fast-paced half-hour television series in which new inventions are chosen each week from all over Australia and demonstrated in the studio by their designers. A panel of ...

Beyond Tomorrow magazine program: 2005-2007

A magazine-style series that showcases cutting edge science and technology, filmed all over the world and presented by an attractive array of hip reporters.

Blue Water High children's series: 2005-2008

Each year, a small but diverse group of teenage surfing champions are selected to take part in an intensive 12-month residential school program at the elite Solar Blue ...

Bondi Rescue reality series: 2005-

Each weekend during the summer months as many as 40,000 people can be attracted to Australia’s most popular surfing beach, Bondi. The lifeguards patrol the beach ...

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 ...

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