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Bullpitt!
''Bullpitt!'' was a short-lived Australian television comedy series which screened in 1997 to 1998 on the Seven Network, reprising the main character in the 1980s sitcom ''Kingswood Country''. It was written by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler. ''Bullpitt!'' saw the return of the character Ted Bullpitt, portrayed by (Ross Higgins) who is now single and retired, living in a retirement home. He is still complaining and repeating many of his catchphrases from ''Kingswood Country'' such as "Pickle me grandmother!". Also in the cast Elaine Lee, Peter Whitford, Bruce Spence, Vanessa Downing, Jacqueline Brennan and Kirstie Hutton. The series, like its predecessor, featured many well-known Australian actors in guest cameo roles. It was produced by RS Productions. In 1998, the show was nominated at the Logies The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Brennan
Jacqueline Brennan is an Australian stage, television and film actress with a career that has spanned over 30 years appearing in film, theatre and voice-over roles. Jacquie Brennan is known for her roles on '' Bullpitt!'', '' The Hollowmen,''and her most known role in Australian award-winning TV Drama ''Wentworth'' as Officer Linda 'Smiles' Miles. Education Jacquie Brennan graduated from the University of Southern Queensland with a Diploma of Performing Arts. Career Jacquie Brennan's career began in 1986 appearing in theatre in both the Queensland Theatre Company and later the Sydney Theatre company. With steady TV work mostly in comedies or dramatic roles including '' Stingers'', Kingswood Country spin-off '' Bullpitt!'' City Homicide and many more. Brennan has also worked extensively in the Australian Theatre Company working in both the Queensland and Sydney theatre companies respectively, these also included a self-written one woman show called 'Dangerous When Wet' as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RS Productions
''RS Productions'' was an Australian television and radio production company best known for producing the 1980-1984 sitcom ''Kingswood Country''. The company was founded by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler, originally to produce comic sketches such as ''The Novels of Fiona Wintergreen'' and "anti-ads" (satirical advertisements for fictitious company ''Product Name'') for ABC youth radio 2JJ and for its "Local Radio" network. Titles included ''Chuck Chunder of the Space Patrol'' (1975), ''Doctors and Nurses'' (1976) and ''The Naked Vicar Show'' (1976–77), for which a compilation of highlights is available. A television version of ''The Naked Vicar Show'' was broadcast by Channel Seven (1977–78). One of its regular sketches became the basis for the hit series ''Kingswood Country''. Other TV series produced by the company included ''Daily at Dawn'' (1981), ''Brass Monkeys'' (1984–1985) and ''" Bullpitt!"'' (1997–1998). The company also produced several radio programs. Today the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Reilly
Gary Reilly (born New Zealand, 1945) is an Australian radio and television producer and writer. He is known for his work on a variety of comedy series such as ''The Naked Vicar Show'', ''Kingswood Country'', '' Hey Dad..!'' and ''Bullpitt!''. He won several Australian Writers Guild awards and Logies, as well as being inducted into the Australian Writers' Hall Of Fame. Career Reilly started work as a trainee with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in 1964, working in various production roles before he moved to advertising; working mostly freelance in most of the industry's creative departments: as writer, art director, production manager, director and MC in New Zealand and Great Britain, then from 1970, in Australia. Around 1972 he teamed up with Tony Sattler, initially to make television commercials, then with the advent of the ABC's youth radio station 2JJ, to create humorous pieces: "anti-ads" satirizing the advertising industry, mock soap-operas (''The Novels of Fiona W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Lee (actor)
Elaine Joyce Knoesen (23 February 1939 – 17 September 2014) better known professionally as Elaine Lee, was a South African-born actress of radio and theatre and stage. She made her film debut in her native South Africa in 1968, but became best known in Australia for her role of fashion designer Vera Collins in the 1970s television soap opera ''Number 96''. Career Lee was born in 1939 in Springs, Transvaal Province (present-day Gauteng), and grew up on a gold mine until her father, an electrician, died when she was nine. She was brought up by her mother and had a sister Barbara. A former waitress, her acting career began in the 1960s in Johannesburg where she became a stage manager for a theatrical company and acted extensively in the theatre and on radio, starring in productions throughout her native South Africa, as well as Zimbabwe and Zambia. Lee emigrated to Australia where she became well known Vera Collins in ''Number 96'', starting in 1972. Lee was known as a sex symb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Downing
Vanessa Downing (born 5 May 1958) is an Australian actress and singer, voice artist and lawyer Downing was appearing with singing group ''The Madrigals'', an acapella group who were performing at the Sydney Opera House, when she was given the role of matriarch foster mother Pippa Fletcher in '' Home and Away''Oram, James "Home and Away:Behind the Scenes" Downing other than her TV and film roles, is also a prominent actor in theatre, who has appeared in numerous productions. She is also a lawyer with law firm ''Craddock Murray Neumann'', a role she juggles alongside her acting career Career After leaving school, Downing attended the University of Sydney, and attained her master's degree in English Literature. She subsequently trained in drama at the Australian Theatre for Young People. Her early roles were in theatre starting from 1977, and roles include Three a Penny, ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'' and ''King Lear''. She is a well-known and prominent stage actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand–Australian actor. Spence has amassed over 100 film and television credits and has also acted in theatre. Biography Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy ''Stork''. Spence's best known film role is as the gyrocopter pilot in ''Mad Max 2'' (1981). He also played the lead role in Werner Herzog's ''Where the Green Ants Dream'' (1984) and portrayed Jedediah the pilot in ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985). In the 21st century, Spence played the Mouth of Sauron in '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (2003), the Trainman in ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (2003), and Baxter in Disney's ''Inspector Gadget 2'' (2003), and voiced the character Chum in ''Finding Nemo'' (2003). He also portrayed Tion Medon in '' Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005) and played Lord Rhoop in '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' (2010). Spence portrayed the pala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingswood Country
''Kingswood Country'' is an Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on the Seven Network. The series started on 30 January 1980 and was a spin-off from the sketch on comedy program ''The Naked Vicar Show'' that had featured Ross Higgins as blustering suburban father, Ted Bullpitt. It was written by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler and produced by their production company, RS Productions. The show won Logie Awards for Best Comedy in 1981 and 1982, and was briefly revived in a spin-off in 1997 titled '' Bullpitt'', although it proved less successful. Premise The show is a family sitcom focusing on the main character, Edward Melba "Ted" Bullpitt (Ross Higgins), a white Australian, conservative, Holden Kingswood-loving putty factory worker and WWII veteran and his interactions with his more progressive wife and two adult children. He lives for three things: his beloved chair in front of the TV, his unsuccessful racing greyhounds Repco Lad and Gay Akubra and his Holden Kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Whitford
Peter Whitford (born 1939) is an Australian former radio, theatre, television and film character actor known for numerous roles particularly as wealthy businessmen and members of the aristocracy. Peter Whitford was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He graduated from NIDA in 1963. In his early career, he played Jack Parker in the long-running radio serial '' Blue Hills''. Whitford an actor, playwright, director and singer started his career firstly in radio roles and subsequently in the theatre genre in 1958, but has appeared in numerous TV and film roles, stating from the late 1960s until 2010. Film roles * ''The Tichborne Affair'' (1975) as Cubitt * ''Cass'' (1978) as Frank * ''My Brilliant Career'' (1979) as Uncle Julius * ''Phar Lap'' (1983) as Bert Wolfe * '' Careful, He Might Hear You'' (1983) as George * ''With Prejudice'' (1983) as Bodor * '' Who Killed Hannah Jane?'' (1984) as James Gannon * ''Dead End Drive-In'' (1986) as Thompson * '' Running from the Guns'' (198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Australian Television Series Debuts
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Seven Network Original Programming
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Australian Television Sitcoms
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Australian Comedy Television Series
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