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Ian McFadyen
Ian McFadyen (born 8 July 1948) is an Australian television writer, actor, director and producer. He is best known as the creator and producer of the Australian television series ''The Comedy Company'', which he also directed and wrote episodes for, and performed in, which ran from 16 February 1988 to 11 November 1990. One of McFadyen's most memorable characters on the show was "David Rabbitborough", a parodic impersonation of British naturalist David Attenborough. McFadyen hosted the Australian version of ''Cluedo'', and was the creator of the Network Ten sketch comedy show '' The Wedge''. In 2009, he played a vampire in an advertisement for Australian lotteries. He also wrote "The Bounty Hunter", episode 4 for the new '' Doctor Who'' spin-off TV series '' K-9''. In 1983 he played the part of Detective Mears in the iconic Australian TV series ''Prisoner A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Fitzgerald
Ross Andrew Fitzgerald (born in 1944) is an Australian academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator. Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor in History and Politics at Griffith University. He has published forty-three books, including three histories of Queensland, two biographies, works about Labor Party politics of the 1950s, with other books relating to philosophy, alcohol and Australian Rules football, as well as eight works of fiction, including seven political/sexual satires about his corpulent anti-hero Professor Dr Grafton Everest. In 2018 Ross Fitzgerald published the Grafton Everest sexual/political satire ''So Far, So Good : An entertainment''. In 2019, he published the Grafton Everest adventure ''The Dizzying Heights'' and in March 2020, his memoir ''Fifty Years Sober''. In November 2021 he published the eighth Grafton Everest adventure, ''The Lowest Depths''. All these books are published by Hybrid in Melbourne. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey (2018 TV Series)
''Bluey'' is an Australian preschool animated television series that premiered on ABC Kids on 1 October 2018. The program was created by Joe Brumm and is produced by Queensland-based company Ludo Studio. It was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation, with BBC Studios holding global distribution and merchandising rights. The series made its premiere on Disney Junior in the United States and is released internationally on Disney+. The show follows Bluey, an anthropomorphic six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy who is characterised by her abundance of energy, imagination and curiosity of the world. The young dog lives with her father, Bandit; mother, Chilli; and younger sister, Bingo, who regularly joins Bluey on adventures as the pair embark on imaginative play together. Other characters featured each represent a different dog breed. Overarching themes include the focus on family, growing up and Australian culture. The prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Together Now (1991 Australian TV Series)
''All Together Now'' was an Australian sitcom that was broadcast on Nine Network between 1991 and 1993. The premise involved an aging rocker, played by Jon English trying to maintain his music career while living with his son and daughter. For an undetermined number of initial episodes filmed prior to public broadcast, the show title was "''Rhythm and Blues''" and had a different theme song. Cast * Jon English as "Bobby Rivers" * Rebecca Gibney as "Tracy Lawson" (Eps 1–86) * Steven Jacobs as "Thomas Sumner" * Jane Hall as "Anna Sumner" * Garry Who as "Doug Stevens" (Eps 1–76) * Bruno Lucia as "Wayne Lovett" * Kerry Armstrong as "Beth Sumner" (Eps 85–101) Awards At the 1992 Logie Awards, the show and its actors were nominated for four awards: * The show (Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Program) * Rebecca Gibney (Most Popular Actress, and Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Female Performer) * Jon English (Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Male Perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Cry In The Dark
''Evil Angels'' (released as ''A Cry in the Dark'' outside Australia and New Zealand) is a 1988 Australian drama film directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay by Schepisi and Robert Caswell is based on John Bryson's 1985 book of the same name. It chronicles the case of Azaria Chamberlain, a nine-week-old baby girl who disappeared from a campground near Ayers Rock in August 1980 and the struggle of her parents, Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain, to prove their innocence to a public convinced that they were complicit in her death. Meryl Streep and Sam Neill star as the Chamberlains. The film was released less than two months after the Chamberlains were exonerated by the Court of Appeal of the Northern Territory of Australia, Northern Territory Court of Appeals of all charges filed against them. The film received generally favourable reviews, with Streep's performance receiving high praise and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but was a box office disapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (film)
''Boulevard of Broken Dreams'' is a 1988 Australian film. It was the first movie from Boulevard Films. Plot A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter. Production Producer-writer Frank Howson met Pino Amenta when discussing a possible mini-series about Les Darcy. That was never made but they decided to collaborate on this film. Howson later said, "It was the first film we'd done, and it was made with a lot of commercial requirements because we weren't in the position to just make a film and hope for the best. We set out to make a film that would do well here and internationally."Paul Kalina, "Boulevard Films", ''Cinema Papers'', November 1989 p42-43 Among these decisions was the ending. Originally, John Waters' character was to get on a plane to Los Angeles without anyone knowing that he returned home to die. In the final film, though, he was reunited with his wife and child. Howson placed a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm (film)
''Malcolm'' is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and Nadia Tass, and directed by Nadia Tass (who made her debut as a feature director on this film). The film stars Colin Friels as Malcolm, a tram enthusiast who becomes involved with a pair of would-be bank robbers. His co-stars are Lindy Davies and John Hargreaves. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, and seven other AFI awards including Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Plot At the start of the film Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (then operator of Melbourne's trams). Autistic Malcolm is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mechanical genius whose modest inner-city cottage is fitted with a variety of remarkable gadgets. When his boss (Bud Tingwell) discovers that Malcolm has built himself a cut-down tram during work time and using work materials, and has taken it out on the tracks, Malcolm is sacked. Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Summer Again
''One Summer Again'' is a 1985 Australian docudrama miniseries about the painter Tom Roberts and the Heidelberg School art movement. Set in and around the city of Melbourne in the late 19th century, the film traces Roberts' career and his relationships with other members of the Heidelberg School, including Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder and Frederick McCubbin. Their artists' camps are recreated in authentic bush settings, which one critic described as having "the soft warmth of a McCubbin painting".Walsh, Geraldine (22 July 1985). "The Heidelberg School has a spell at Brideshead", ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Film sets true to the period are contrasted with shots of contemporary Melbourne. The title comes from a letter Conder sent to Roberts, longing for the time they spent painting together at Heidelberg: "Give me one summer again, with yourself and Streeton, the same long evenings, songs, dirty plates, and last pink skies. But these things don't happen, do they? And what's go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glass Babies
''Glass Babies'' is a 1985 Australian television mini series about a ruthless family set in the world of the then-new technology of in-vitro fertilization.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p199 Cast * Rowena Wallace - Dr. Gloria McCrae * Gary Day - Brendan Keller * Deborra-Lee Furness - Joan Simpson * Asher Keddie - Anna Simpson * George Mikell - John Craig * Belinda Davey - Sally Craig * Andrew Sharp - Michael Craig Home media References External links''Glass Babies''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... English-language television shows 1980s Australian television miniseries 1985 Australian television series debuts 1985 Australian television series endings 1985 television films 1985 films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Squad (Australian TV Series)
''Special Squad'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten in 1984. Overview The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too sensitive or specialist for regular squads. The Special Squad was headed by Det. Insp. Don Anderson (Alan Cassell), with his main operatives being Det. Snr. Sgt. Greg Smith (Anthony Hawkins), and Det. Sgt. Joel Davis (John Diedrich). ''Special Squad'' was seen by many as an Australian answer to the British series ''The Professionals'' both for its focus on action and violence, and the fact that both series were produced by Raymond Menmuir. However, in reality the characters and plotlines were less developed than the British series. The series lasted for 43 episodes in total. Cast * Alan Cassell as Det. Insp. Don Anderson * Anthony Hawkins as Det. Snr. Sgt. Greg Smith * John Diedrich John Edwin Diedrich (born 25 February 1953 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie
"The Movie" is the 54th episode of the sitcom ''Seinfeld''. It is the 14th episode of the fourth season, and first aired on January 6, 1993 on NBC. The episode revolves entirely around the characters' struggles to go to see a movie together. Plot Jerry has two stand-up acts scheduled for the same night; due to a delay in one of them, he cannot make both shows. A hopeful comedian, Buckles, hangs around to fill in when somebody drops out. Jerry agrees to lose his moment at the microphone, as he is meeting his friends to see a movie, ''CheckMate'', at 10:30. On his way to the movie theater, Jerry is grabbed by Buckles, who insists on sharing a taxicab. Buckles irritates Jerry by trying out a new comic routine. George has been chosen to buy the movie tickets. At the Paragon Theater, George joins the end of a queue. He taps the shoulder of the man in front of him, confirming that he does not have a ticket, which leads him to conclude he is in the line to purchase tickets. Elaine an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
