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Patrol Boat (TV Series)
''Patrol Boat'' is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ''Patrol Boat'' was created by James Davern and two series were produced, in 1979 and 1983, with a total of 26 episodes. ''Patrol Boat'' was about the activities of the crew of a Royal Australian Navy patrol boat which patrolled Australia's coastline. The series was produced with the co-operation of the Royal Australian Navy. Two fictional RAN patrol boats were depicted in the series. HMAS ''Ambush'' (portrayed by HMA Ships and ) was used in the first season, with filming taking place during 1978 and 1979 around Sydney Harbour, Pittwater, Ku-ring-gai Chase, and the Hawkesbury River. For the second season, the crew transferred to the newer HMAS ''Defiance'' (portrayed by HMA Ships , , , , and ). The series is similar to the BBC series ''Warship'', screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1976. This was before ''Patrol Boat'' which was influenced ...
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James Davern
James Edmund Davern, OAM, is an Australian television director, writer, script editor and producer, and founder of production company JNP Productions. Professional career Davern was employed as a writer and script editor with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television branch in the 1960s. He worked as a producer and director in drama and music programmes and was involved in establishing a script production line. In 1967, Davern was director and producer of the very first episode of '' Bellbird'', Australia's first successful television soap opera, set in a rural community. Davern moved to the Seven Network where he created the highly popular series '' A Country Practice'', one of the most popular drama series in Australian television history. The series ran from 1981 to 1993 with 1,058 episodes. When the Seven Network cancelled '' A Country Practice'' in 1993, it was remade by Network 10 in 1994. Although James Davern moved to Network 10 to work on the "new" series. I ...
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Margo Lee
Margaret Stella Lee (20 June 1923 - 16 October 1987) credited as Margo Lee, was an Australian actor and singer of radio, stage, film and TV. She worked briefly in Hollywood. Filmography Film *'' Into the Straight'' (1949) *'' The Twelve Pound Look'' (1956) (TV movie) *'' Don't Listen Ladies'' (1963) (TV movie) *''Flowering Cherry'' (1963) (TV movie) Television * ''Whiplash Whiplash may refer to: * The long flexible part of a whip * Whiplash (medicine), a neck injury ** Whiplash Injury Protection System (WHIPS), in automobiles Film and television * ''Whiplash'' (1948 film), a US film noir about a boxer * ''Whiplas ...'' * '' Stormy Petrel'' (1960) * '' The Outcasts'' as Mrs John MacArthur (1961) * '' Run From the Morning'' (1978) References External links * 20th-century Australian actresses 1923 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Australian women singers Australian expatriates in the United States {{Australia-actor-stub ...
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1979 Australian Television Series Debuts
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Television Shows Set In Queensland
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival stora ...
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Australian Drama Television Series
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Original Programming
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Somet ...
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Janet Andrewartha
Janet Andrewartha (16 September 1951) is an Australian television and theatre actress. Andrewartha began her career as a music teacher before attending drama school. She graduated in 1979and began securing television and theatre roles. Andrewartha's most significant roles have been in Australian television series, most prominently Reb Kean in ''Prisoner'' and Lyn Scully in the soap opera '' Neighbours''. Outside of television she has actively pursued her theatre career in the early 1980's and performing in the genre over four decades and has worked in numerous productions with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Playbox Theatre Company. Biography Andrewartha was born in Melbourne, Australia. In her early life, Andrewartha did not plan to become an actress and worked as a music teacher. While she worked in a high school, the principal asked Andrewartha to stage an end of year musical with her year 10 classes. She knew nothing about theatre and was asked to study to aid the pr ...
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Zoe Bertram
Zoe Bertram is an Australian actress, whose first major role was in the teen-oriented television soap opera '' The Restless Years'' as Olivia Baxter from 1977 to 1981. Career Bertram has guested in numerous television series and appeared in movies, as well as on stage. She is probably better known to international audiences for playing Randi Goodlove in ''Prisoner'' in 1983. In 1991 she starred in the series ''Animal Park''. In 2009–2010 she appeared in a series of television advertisements for Australian Pensioners Insurance. In July 2011, Bertram joined the cast of ''Neighbours'' as Lorraine Dowski. She re-joined the cast in the recurring role of Fay Brennan ''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on 18 March 1985 and currently airs on digital channel Eleven. The following is a list of characters that appeared in the show in 2017, by order of first appearance. ... in 2017 and made her first onscreen appearance on 28 July. F ...
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Alan David Lee
Alan David Lee (born 1955 or 1956) is an Australian actor. His television and film credits include '' Prisoner'', '' Special Squad'', '' The Cowra Breakout'', ''Murder Call'', '' All Saints'', '' Water Rats'', '' Blue Heelers'', '' McLeod's Daughters'' and '' H2O: Just Add Water''. Lee grew up on a farm in Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ... before moving to Australia when he was 7. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1981. Filmography Film Television Stage References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Alan David Australian male actors Living people National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni 1955 births ...
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Grant Dodwell
Grant Radnor Dodwell (born 2 July 1952, in Sydney) is an Australian actor, producer, writer, director, voice artist, and drama teacher. He is a triple recipient of the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. He is best known for his roles in television soap operas including as an original cast member in ''A Country Practice'', ''Willing and Abel'' and ''Home and Away''. Career Dodwell has more than 40 years' experience in the entertainment industry in theatre, television and film appearing in many of Australia's best known stage shows and television series. He is best known for his Logie award-winning television acting role playing Dr. Simon Bowen in ''A Country Practice''. He would later play Charles Willing in ''Willing and Abel'' (1987) in which he co-starred with his former ACP co-star Shane Withington Shane Withington (born 22 August 1958) is an Australian actor, currently best known for playing surf lifeguard John Palmer in ''Home and Away'' on the Seven Network; his fo ...
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ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC radio and online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC provides five non-commercial channels within Australia, headed by its flagship ABC TV channel, as well as ABC Australia, ...
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Danny Adcock
Danny Adcock (born 29 June 1948) is an Australian actor, known for his work in television and theatre. His television acting roles include 7 different roles in Crawford Production series '' Matlock Police'' as the killer of Michael Pate's character, ''Division 4'', ''Homicide'', ''Patrol Boat'', '' Sons and Daughters'' as Joe Parker, ''Prisoner'' as Deputy Governor Geoff Carlson of fictional prison Woodridge, ''A Country Practice'', '' E Street'', ''Fire'' as "Nugget", ''Blue Heelers'', '' All Saints'', '' Stingers'', and ''Home and Away'' as Bishop Pitt. Long Lost Family 2 more Season between 2014 And 2015 He was a regular cast member of short-lived soap opera ''Arcade'' (1980) as Duncan Adams. In ''Farscape'' he played T'raltixx in the second-season episode " Crackers Don't Matter", and Co-Kura Strappa, a recurring character throughout the third season. His first film role was in ''The Cars That Ate Paris''. He played a small part in the films ''Quigley Down Under'' starr ...
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