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Mission Top Secret
''Mission Top Secret'' is an Australian TV series aired between 1992 and 1995. The pilot for the series was a 1991 telemovie of the same name. This was part of the ''South Pacific Adventure'' series on a budget of $1 million.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p107 At the APRA Music Awards of 1994 won Best Television Theme. Premise This Australian TV series is about an organization known as the Centauri Network, it is a network of children from around the planet who fight crime, & solve mysteries with the help of gadgets, which were quite advanced for the time. When 12-year-old Jemma accidentally taps into a disused telecommunications satellite she finds that she has audio-visual contact with other computers worldwide. Then with the help of electronics inventor, Sir Joshua Cranberry, she forms the Centauri Network, a worldwide crime fighting organisation of children who use their network. Jemma is the daughter of Sir Joshua' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Mirams
Roger Eastgate Holden Mirams (16 April 1918 – 26 February 2004) was a New Zealand-born film producer and director, whose career extended over 60 years. Mirams co-directed '' Broken Barrier'', the only local dramatic feature film made in New Zealand in the 1950s, and later won a reputation for the children's television series he produced in Australia. Biography Mirams was born in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, New Zealand where he made his first film aged 13, ''When the Gangsters Came to Christchurch''. It screened at a local cinema in 1931. Mirams joined the New Zealand Army at the outbreak of World War II, working as a war correspondent and cameraman throughout the duration of the war, which saw him travel with the New Zealand Division throughout Italy and the Middle East. Following the end of the war, he travelled to Japan where he filmed a documentary about the war crimes trials that were held there. He then joined the New Zealand National Film Unit as a director and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Briant
Shane Briant (17 August 1946 – 26 May 2021) was an English actor and novelist. Briant studied law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the lead in ''Hamlet'' at the Eblana Theatre, Dublin. Briant is best known for his roles in four Hammer Films productions; ''Demons of the Mind'','' Straight on Till Morning'', ''Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter'', and ''Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell''. He also resided in Sydney, Australia with his wife Wendy (née Lycett). Stage and screen Briant was nominated for the 'Best Newcomer' award by the London theatre critics when he played one of the leads in ''Children of the Wolf'', with Sheelagh Cullen and Yvonne Mitchell at London's Apollo Theatre. Put under contract at Elstree Film Studios in late 1973, Briant starred in four films for Hammer; '' Straight On till Morning'', ''Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell'', ''Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter'' and ''Demons of the Mind''. He also appeared in televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Hewett
Lauren Hewett (born 8 January 1981) is an Australian former actress. She is best known for her role in ''Ocean Girl'' as Mera, ''Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left'' as X, and also for her role as Lara Ritchie in ''The Echo of Thunder''. She also starred as Kathy Morgan in '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord''. Biography Hewett won two Young Actors Awards at the Australian Film Institute Awards: in 1991 for the TV movie ''Act of Necessity'' and in 1993 for ''Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left ''Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left'' is a 1985 novel by Australian children's author Robin Klein which also became a children's television series. The story focuses on an alien family who seek refuge on Earth, in the small town of Bell ...''. Filmography Awards and nominations External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hewett, Lauren 1981 births Living people Australian television actresses Australian child actresses Actresses from Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grundy Television
Reg Grundy Organisation (founded as Reg Grundy Enterprises, later known as both Reg Grundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian-based multinational mass media company, primarily involved in television as a production company but also in distribution and licensing. Reg Grundy, the company's namesake founded the media enterprise locally in 1959, It branched out internationally in the late 1980s under the banner Grundy World Wide Limited with divisions in Europe, United Kingdom, the United States and Asia The company first produced game shows, then branched into soap operas in 1973. In 1995 Reg Grundy sold the company to Pearson Television, now known as Fremantle, part of the RTL Group (in turn 90% owned by Bertelsmann). In 2006 Fremantle merged Grundy Television and Crackerjack Productions to form the localised arm Fremantle Australia. Until 2013 the Grundy name still existed internationally in Germany as Grundy Light Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network Ten
Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 or simply 10) is an Australian commercial television network owned by Ten Network Holdings, a division of the Paramount Networks UK & Australia subsidiary of Paramount Global. One of five national free-to-air networks, 10's owned-and-operated stations can be found in the state capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth while affiliates extend the network to regional areas of the country. As of 2022, Network 10 is the fourth-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV and ahead of SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. History Origins From the introduction of TV in 1956 until 1965 there were three television networks in Australia, the Nine Network, National Television Network (now the Nine Network), the Seven Network, Australian Television Network (now the Seven Network), and the public Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA Music Awards Of 1994
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 1994 (generally known as APRA Awards) are a series of awards held in 1994. The APRA Music Awards were presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). Awards ''Winners are shown in bold with known nominees shown in plain.'' See also * Music of Australia The music of Australia has an extensive history made of music societies. Indigenous Australian music forms a significant part of the unique heritage of a 40,000- to 60,000-year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo. Contemporary fusions of ... References External links APRA official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Apra Awards Of 1994 1994 in Australian music 1994 music awards APRA Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Parslow
Frederick Henry Parslow (14 August 1932 – 26 January 2017) was an Australian actor, who appeared in film, television and theatre. Acting career Parslow was notable in several film and TV roles, with parts in internationally successful TV soap opera's ''The Sullivans'' and '' Neighbours'' and was active in theatre, having served as a member of the Melbourne Theatre Company for nearly thirty years, joining the company when it was founded in 1953, known then the Union Theatre Repertory Company, and making his first performance with in a touring production of ''Twelfth Night'' Whilst a dominant figure on the Melbourne theatre scene, Parslow was generally reluctant to take on television roles. He made television appearances in the 1960s, in comedy and variety sketches with theatre colleagues on ''The Ray Taylor Show'' and ''In Melbourne Tonight''. Minor roles included Crawford Productions staples '' Bluey'', '' Skyways'', and ''Cop Shop''. Parslow's also featured in several TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Croft
Jamie Croft (born 4 August 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian actor of television and film and voice actor Career Television Croft began his career in the television soap opera '' A Country Practice''. Subsequent credits include: ''Police Rescue'', '' Water Rats'', '' Above the Law'', ''Sun on the Stubble'' (aka ''The Valley Between'') and '' Farscape''. Voice roles *''Napoleon'' – Napoleon *''Pixel Pinkie'' – Coolest Luke *''Zigby'' – Clem and Stink *''Sea Princesses'' – Caramello *''The DaVincibles'' – Pablo and Mascot *'' Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale'' – Claude *''Legend of Enyo'' – Enyo *''The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill'' – Bill Koala (Blinky's dad) Film He has also appeared in many movies and mini-series including, '' That Eye, The Sky'', 20th Century Fox's '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'', ''The Real Macaw'', '' Disappearance'', '' Blurred'', '' The Pact'', was the voice as Napoleon in ''Napoleon'' and ''Hercules''. Croft was one of the original ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network 10 Original Programming
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APRA Award Winners (Ateneo ...
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Australian Children's Television Series
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Australian Drama Television Series
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