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The Box (soap Opera)
''The Box'' is an Australian soap opera that ran on ATV-0 from 11 February 1974 until 11 October 1977 and on 0–10 Network affiliates around Australia. ''The Box'' was produced by Crawford Productions who at the time was having great success producing police drama series in Australia. ''The Box'' was Crawford's first soap opera, and was launched as a reaction to the enormous success of the rival adult soap opera ''Number 96''.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 91-92 Synopsis ''The Box'' was a drama set in a fictional Melbourne television station, called UCV Channel 12, and explores the day-to-day working's of the company and the professional and personal lives of the staff who work there. It featured elements that satirised the Australian television industry. Characters in the series were said to be modelled on Australian television figures and personalities of the day with central character Sir. Henry Usher modelled on both media mogul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is '' Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by '' Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briony Behets
Briony Behets (born 1951, London, United Kingdom) is an English-Australian actress who found fame acting in Australian soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s Early life Behets' father worked as a civil engineer, which took him around the world and as a result much of Behets' childhood was spent in Germany, Africa and Sierra Leone before returning to England. At age 17 she was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying there for two years. After completing the course she travelled to the United States as part of a student exchange project, working there as a nightclub dancer. Career At age 19, she travelled to Australia to take a regular role in comedy series ''Birds in the Bush'' (1972), and decided to stay in the country when production ceased on the series after 13 episodes. Behets subsequently enjoyed several high-profile television roles in Australia. She was an original cast member of soap opera ''Number 96'' playing Helen Eastwood in 1972 but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Giblin
Sue Belinda Giblin (born 2 March 1950) professionally billed as Belinda Giblin, is an Australian actress. Prominent in theatre and television soap operas, and several feature films. Giblin's small screen roles include '' The Box'' as Kay Webster (1974-1975), ''The Sullivans'' (1977–1978) as Sister Sue Marriott, '' Sons and Daughters'' (1985-1987), as Alison Carr and her two stints in ''Home and Away'', firstly as Cynthia Ross in 1991, and then Martha Stewart, the long-presumed dead wife of Alf Stewart, a role she played on a recurring basis from 2018 to 2022. Biography Early life Giblin was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, to Phyllis and Ted, she has two older brothers Ted Jn. and Graham and a younger sister Allison. Her father Ted was a doctor at the Tamworth Base Hospital. Her mother ran the dramatic society, and acted and directed in productions but then died of breast cancer when she was 23, her dad died when he was 83. Giblin was offered a scholarship to the Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Blundell
Graeme Blundell (born 7 August 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer, playwright, lyricist and biographer Early life Blundell was born on 7 April 1945 in Melbourne; he grew up in the suburb of Clifton Hill. He was educated at Merrilands College and Coburg High School, where he served as a Prefect. He then studied arts at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and became involved in student theatre. He has a younger brother, Dennis, and two younger sisters, Margaret and Kathryn. Career In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play ''Dimboola'' at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of ''Homicide'' (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 1973 sex-comedy film ''Alvin Purple'' and its 1974 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Rixon
Cheryl Rixon (born 12 October 1954 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian actress and model. She was chosen as the December 1977 Pet Of The Month for '' Penthouse'' and two years later as Pet of the Year in 1979. Rixon now lives in the US and designs jewelry which she sells under the name of 'Royal Order'. She is married to club owner Art Davis with whom she has two sons, Dylan and Luke Davis. Early career In the early 1970s, Rixon was twice a finalist in the annual Miss West Coast bikini beauty pageant, staged in Perth each January. She later appeared as a game show assistant on local TV. After appearing in obscure low-budget sex-comedy film '' Plugg'' (1975), shot in Perth, Rixon moved interstate to Melbourne and acted in several television roles for Crawford Productions. She played three different roles during the final episodes of the Crawford production '' Homicide''. Starting in mid-1975 Rixon also began making appearances in Crawford Production's sex-comedy soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Forster
Jill Forster (born 1936), is an English Australian actress who came to Australia as a model in 1964 and appeared in the Crawford Production series ''Hunter''. She is well known for appearance's in TV series, but has also appeared in made for TV films. She primarily appeared in small cameo roles, although she was well known as Helen Sheriden in ''Number 96'', replacing original actress Carmen Duncan and also had prominent roles in ''The Restless Years'' and ''SeaChange'' Forster has been in numerous other Australian television dramas including ''Motel A motel, also known as a motor hotel, motor inn or motor lodge, is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having each room entered directly from the parking area for motor vehicles rather than through a central lobby. Entering dictionaries ...'', ''The Box (Australian TV series), The Box'', ''Starting Out'', ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'', ''A Country Practice'', ''The Flying Doctors'' and ''The Power, The Passion''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Ramsey
Lois June Ramsey (; 18 June 1922 – 22 January 2016) also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series '' The Box'' and ''Prisoner'' as two different characters. As a character actress of both drama and comic roles in numerous serials, she often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas. Career The Box and Prisoner She was a major cast member of the 1970s soap opera ''The Box'' as tea lady Mrs. Hopkins, appearing for the entire run of the serial. She also had 2 prominent stints in ''Prisoner''—firstly as dotty social worker Agnes Forster in 1980 in 1985 as an elderly inmate Ettie Parslow, who thought that the Second World War was still going on. Television and film roles She had numerous roles in TV soap opera/serials including ''Crawford Productions'' serials ''Homicide'' , ''The Sullivans'', ''Cop Shop'', as well as ''A Country Practice'', '' E Street'', ''Home and Away'', and ''Blue Heelers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tea Lady
A tea lady provides drinks in an office, factory, hospital, or other place of work. The role under this name began in Britain during World War II, and continues in the National Health Service today. It used to be a wide-spread occupation for women, and as such was well represented in popular culture. History Tea ladies entered the mainstream in the UK during the Second World War, when they were used in an experiment to boost efficiency in workplaces for the war effort (see Women in World War II#Workplace). They had such a hugely positive effect on morale they became commonplace in all areas of work, mobile canteens even serving military units on exercises. They were present in a works canteen or perhaps came round with a trolley, on which was usually a tea urn full of either hot tea or hot water, and perhaps a selection of cakes and buns. Decline This occupation began to die out in the late 1970s to early 1980s when tea ladies began to be replaced by private catering firms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Karo
Paul Karo (born ) is a New Zealand-born Australian former actor of Moroccan Jewish descent, best known for his role in telefilms and TV series including as Lee Whiteman in the 1970s television soap opera '' The Box''. In 1967 he received the Best Actor for 1966 award (the "Erik") from Melbourne theatre critics for his role in ''A Lily for Little India''.'Actors Named', Melbourne ''Age'' 21 March 1967 p. 6 In 1976 he won the Best Australian Actor category at the Logie Awards. Other TV credits include: ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'', ''Prisoner'', ''The Sullivans'', '' Special Squad'', ''Phoenix'' and ''SeaChange ''SeaChange'' is an Australian television program that ran from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC and in 2019 on the Nine Network. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howar ...''. An early television role was in '' Quiet Night'' in 1961. Filmography References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction. The concept of "lesbian" to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation evolved in the 20th century. Throughout history, women have not had the same freedom or independence as men to pursue homosexual relationships, but neither have they met the same harsh punishment as homosexual men in some societies. Instead, lesbian relationships have often been regarded as harmless, unless a participant attempts to assert privileges traditionally enjoyed by men. As a result, little in history was documented to give an accurate description of how female homosexuality was expressed. When early sexologists in the late 19th century began to categorize and describe homosexual behavior, hampere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
