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production company, focused on radio and
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. Founded in
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by
Hector Crawford Hector William Crawford CBE AO (14 August 191311 March 1991) was an Australian entrepreneur, conductor and media mogul, best known for his radio and television production firms. He and his sister Dorothy Crawford founded Crawford Productions ...
and his sister, actress and voice artist
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, the company, also known as Crawfords Australia, is now a subsidiary of the
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.


Founding and early years

Founded exclusively as a radio production company in 1945, Crawford Productions then specialized in drama, light entertainment, and educational programs. When
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was introduced to Australia in 1956, Crawford Productions was one of the few Australian radio production houses to successfully transition to the new medium. Early Crawford TV productions included '' Wedding Day'' (HSV-7, 1956), the first Australian-produced
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'' Take That!'' (HSV-7, 1957–59), ''The
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'' (GTV-9, 1958), ''
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'' (GTV-9, 1958) and the drama play ''
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'' (HSV-7, 1960). They also produced segments of the ''Export Action'' documentary series, ''The Flying Dogtor'' cartoon series, and a local adaptation of the US game show ''
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'' (HSV-7, 1962–66). The company's production quality was known to be higher quality than that of their closest rival, the
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, who specialized in quiz and game shows before transitioning to drama serials. Company co-founder Hector Crawford was well known as an
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and as a prominent figure in the ongoing campaign for local content regulations on Australian television. During the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Crawford Productions dominated Australian drama series. They gained an early foothold with their first major TV series, ''
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'' (1961–64), which presented dramatizations of court cases. Like other local producers, they faced heightened competition from imported overseas programming, as there were no local content regulations governing Australian television at the time. As a result of this ''de facto'' free-trade agreement, most programs shown on Australian TV content were imported from America. At the time when ''Homicide'' premiered in late 1964, more than 80% of all content broadcast on Australian TV came from America, and American productions enjoyed a virtual monopoly over the TV drama field. The report of the 1963 Vincent Commission into the Australian media found that 97% of all drama shows broadcast in Australia between 1956 and 1963 were American productions. Australian producers competed against high-quality, high-budget imported programs that drew from an international talent pool and a skill-base that grew out of Hollywood. The competitive advantage enjoyed by imported content was exacerbated by the fact that the once-thriving Australian film industry had been decimated by competition from the major American studios. Since the beginning of the 1960s, film production in Australia had come to a standstill. Only one locally produced and funded feature film was made in Australia in the decade between 1959 and 1969. One of the major impacts of the suppression of the local film industry was a rapid erosion of skills and experience among local film-makers and an exodus of local talent to Britain and the USA.


''Homicide''

Crawford experienced mainstream success with its popular and long-running police drama ''
Homicide Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no inten ...
'', which premiered in October 1964 on the
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. It became the first Australian TV drama series produced locally to become a major ratings success and compete effectively with imported American programming. As video technology was still in its infancy in Australia at that time, Crawford Productions developed a highly efficient integrated production schedule to combine studio scenes recorded on videotape with location footage captured on film for each weekly episode. Encouraged by the success of ''Homicide'' (which continued in production until 1975) their next drama project was the ambitious espionage drama ''
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'' (1967), which was purchased by the
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. It starred Tony Ward and also made a star out of the actor who played its villain,
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.


''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''

After ''Hunter'' ended in 1969, a new police drama, ''
Division 4 ''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes. Synopsis The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success o ...
'' (1969) was conceived as a vehicle for Kennedy's talents and he became a dual
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winner, the series also screened on the Nine Network; the other stars included former game show host and newsreader
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, Terry Donovan, and
Ted Hamilton Edward Leslie "Ted" Hamilton ( OAM) (born 1937), is an Australian singer, composer, playwright, entrepreneur, and actor. He is known for playing the Pirate King in ''The Pirate Movie'' and police constable Kevin Dwyer in ''Division 4'' (1969– ...
. Unlike ''Homicide'', which concentrated on murder plots, ''Division 4'' was set in a suburban Melbourne police station, and covered a broad range of police work, as well as occasionally featuring more light-hearted episodes. It too became an enduring popular success and earned Kennedy two
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s. Crawford's next venture was a rural police series ''
Matlock Police ''Matlock Police'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network (now known as the 10 Network) between 1971 and 1976. The series focused on the police station and crime in the Victorian town o ...
'' (1971), which was sold to the
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. Like Crawford's other ventures it enjoyed success and popularity. It starred veteran Australian actor
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, who had spent many years in Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s, and featured
Paul Cronin Paul Cronin (8 July 1938 – 13 September 2019) was an Australian actor who played roles in the Australian television series '' Matlock Police'' and ''The Sullivans''. He won the Silver Logie five times, including three years consecutively fr ...
, who was later given his own spinoff series: ''
Solo One ''Solo One'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network and screened in 1976. There were 13 half-hour episodes. Synopsis The series was a spin-off from Crawford's other police show '' Matlock Police ...
''. With the success of ''Matlock Police'', Crawford Productions cemented its position as Australia's leading drama production house and gained the unique distinction of having a successful weekly drama series running simultaneously on each of the three major commercial networks.


''Ryan'' and ''The Box''

In 1973, Crawford Productions created the action-adventure series '' Ryan'' (1973), starring
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as a private investigator. This was an all-film colour production (at a time when Australian TV was still in black and white and transitioning to colour) made to target overseas sales, but it only lasted one series and 39 episodes. In 1974, Crawfords moved into the realm of
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with its sex-comedy serial '' The Box'', which was set in a TV station, UCV channel 12. With the top-rating 0-10 Network serial ''
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'' as its lead in ''The Box'' was an instant success. ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'', and ''Matlock Police'' remained highly popular through the early 1970s, and ''The Box'' was a big hit in its premiere year, ranking as Australia's second highest-rated program for 1974. With a highly popular police drama on each commercial network, the production company was booming. However, in 1975 and 1976, ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'', and ''Matlock Police'' were all abruptly cancelled. It has been suggested that this was because Hector Crawford and several of the actors who featured in his shows figured prominently in the contemporary ''TV: Make It Australian'' campaign, agitating for stronger local content regulations to promote and protect local TV production. Though the ratings for ''The Box'' were significantly lower when compared to the figures from its first year, the show continued until 1976. ''The Box'' was cancelled in early 1977 and production ended on the series 1 April 1977. The company also created
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series ''
The Bluestone Boys ''The Bluestone Boys'' is a 1976 Australian comedy television series about a fictional prison, produced by Crawford Productions. The program was not particularly successful and was cancelled after a run of 26 episodes. The series starred Garry M ...
'' (1976) which was set in a prison, and ''
Bobby Dazzler ''Bobby Dazzler'' was an Australian television sitcom produced by Crawford Productions, starring pop singer John Farnham as well as Daniel Rumpf and Darrin Collier as the title characters: up-and-coming pop music stars Frankie Marie Vicars and B ...
'', a vehicle for pop singer John Farnham, in 1977. '' Bluey'' (1976) saw a return to police drama but with a new spin; however, the series was not a major success.


''The Sullivans'' and others

Greater success came with ''
The Sullivans ''The Sullivans'' is an Australian period drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 15 November 1976 until 10 March 1983. The series tells the story of a fictional average middle-clas ...
'' (1976–83), a critically acclaimed and highly popular World War II family serial co-starring
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and former Matlock lead Paul Cronin. Continuing the trend at that time for evening soap opera type shows on Australian television they later launched ''
Cop Shop ''Cop Shop'' is a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes. The show The show revolved ar ...
'' (1977–84), a meld of soap opera with the Crawfords staple of police drama, and the series emerged as a popular success. ''Cop Shop'' featured George Mallaby and former '' Bellbird'' star
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. ''
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'' (1979–81) replicated the soap opera-meets-weekly adult drama hybrid of ''Cop Shop'' in an airport setting, with less success. Later programmes included legal drama ''
Carson's Law ''Carson's Law'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1982-1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson. The ep ...
'' (1983–84), a vehicle for former ''The Sullivans'' star
Lorraine Bayly Lorraine Daphne Bayly AM (born 16 January 1937) is an Australian actress of film, television and theatre, presenter, singer, dancer, pianist and theatre director and writer. She is perhaps best known to small screen audiences for her soap ...
, children's series ''
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'' and the popular outback medical drama ''
The Flying Doctors ''The Flying Doctors'' is an Australian drama TV series produced by Crawford Productions that revolves around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. ...
''.


Acquisition

The company started life in small premises located in
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, Melbourne, moved to the now
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listed Olderfleet Building in Collins Street, then in 1972 to Southampton Crescent, Abbotsford, and in 1982 to Middleborough Road, Box Hill. In the 1980s, they set up an international branch Crawford Productions International, which its main purpose that Crawfords would film series for foreign companies, namely the
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, and Crawford decided to co-finance with American network
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in order to develop a second series of the long-running ''
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'', which premiered on HBO in 1983. That year, Nick McMahon and Mike Lake, had ankle from the company to serve as consultant executive producers for the programs that were produced by Crawfords. In 1987, Crawfords themselves was sold off to a diversified entertainment group, Ariadne Australia, and there would going to be a link between Crawford Productions and De Laurentiis Entertainment Limited, a subsidiary of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in which Ariadne is the second-largest stockholder in the group, and Crawfords' series wanted to be a cash flow underpinning the then-under construction DEL studios to produce their own projects, each of these were filmed. The company was sold to
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in 1989. Subsequent Crawfords drama productions included '' State Coroner'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. The Crawford studios in Box Hill, Victoria were demolished in March 2006 and a
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opened on the site on 30 June 2006. In 2009, Crawfords Australia had an eight-acre studio complex in Melbourne. While the company is still in existence, it currently does not produce television, concentrating instead on marketing DVD releases of the company's earlier dramas.


List of notable Crawford series

Note:
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,
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(NRN) and
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have the free-to-air broadcast rights to those shows, not the other rival networks *''
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'' (1957–1959) (comedy) *''
Consider Your Verdict ''Consider Your Verdict'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in ...
'' (1961–1964) (courtroom drama) *''
Homicide Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no inten ...
'' (1964–1977) (police drama) *''
Hunter Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...
'' (1967–1969) (espionage drama) *''
Division 4 ''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes. Synopsis The series was one of the first dramas to follow up on the enormous success o ...
'' (1969–1975) (police drama) *''
Matlock Police ''Matlock Police'' is an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network (now known as the 10 Network) between 1971 and 1976. The series focused on the police station and crime in the Victorian town o ...
'' (1971–1976) (police drama) *'' Ryan'' (1973) (private-eye drama) *'' The Box'' (1974–1977) (soap opera) *''
The Last of the Australians ''The Last of the Australians'' was an Australian sitcom that was broadcast on the Nine Network in 1975 and 1976. The comedy series was produced by Crawford Productions in two series of 13 episodes each. It was based on Alan Seymour's play ''T ...
'' (1975–1976) (sitcom) *'' Bluey'' (1976–1977) (police drama) *''
The Sullivans ''The Sullivans'' is an Australian period drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 15 November 1976 until 10 March 1983. The series tells the story of a fictional average middle-clas ...
'' (1976–1983) (period drama, soap opera) *''
Solo One ''Solo One'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network and screened in 1976. There were 13 half-hour episodes. Synopsis The series was a spin-off from Crawford's other police show '' Matlock Police ...
'' (1976) (police drama) *''
The Bluestone Boys ''The Bluestone Boys'' is a 1976 Australian comedy television series about a fictional prison, produced by Crawford Productions. The program was not particularly successful and was cancelled after a run of 26 episodes. The series starred Garry M ...
'' (1976) (sitcom) *''
Bobby Dazzler ''Bobby Dazzler'' was an Australian television sitcom produced by Crawford Productions, starring pop singer John Farnham as well as Daniel Rumpf and Darrin Collier as the title characters: up-and-coming pop music stars Frankie Marie Vicars and B ...
'' (1977–1978) (sitcom) *''
Young Ramsay ''Young Ramsay'' was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1977 to 1980 on the Seven Network. It was produced by Crawford Productions as two series of 13 episodes each. Cast * John Hargreaves as Peter Ramsay * Serge Lazareff as R ...
'' (1977–1980) (drama) *''
Cop Shop ''Cop Shop'' is a long-running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for seven seasons between 28 November 1977 and 23 July 1984. It comprised 582 one-hour episodes. The show The show revolved ar ...
'' (1977–1984) (soap opera) *''
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'' (1979–1981) (soap opera) *''
Holiday Island ''Holiday Island'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten. The show aired twice weekly from 1981 to 1982, with the first episode going to air on 17 June 1981. Series synopsis Like preceding Crawford ...
'' (1981–1982) (soap opera) *''
All the Rivers Run ''All the Rivers Run'' is an Australian historical novel by Nancy Cato, first published in 1958. It was adapted as a 1983 Australian television mini-series starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters. The mini-series is marketed with the tagline ...
'' (1983) (miniseries) *''
Carson's Law ''Carson's Law'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1982-1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson. The ep ...
'' (1983–1984) (period drama, legal drama) *'' Special Squad'' (1984) (police drama) *''
The Henderson Kids ''The Henderson Kids'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the ...
'' (1985–1987) (children's drama) *''
Zoo Family ''Zoo Family'' is an Australian children's television series broadcast on the Nine Network on 23 June 1985. The series was produced by Crawford Productions.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p. 499 It was filme ...
'' (1985) (children's drama) *''
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'' (1985) (film) *''
Alice to Nowhere ''Alice to Nowhere'' is a 1986 Australian miniseries set in the outback The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback region ...
'' (1986) (miniseries) *'' My Brother Tom'' (1986) (miniseries) *''
The Flying Doctors ''The Flying Doctors'' is an Australian drama TV series produced by Crawford Productions that revolves around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. ...
'' (1986–1993) (drama) *''
The Far Country ''The Far Country'' is a 1954 American Technicolor Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Walter Brennan, John McIntire and Corinne Calvet. Written by Borden Chase, the film is about a self-minded advent ...
'' (1988) (telemovie) *''
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'' (1988) (period drama) *''
Acropolis Now ''Acropolis Now'' was an Australian television sitcom set in a fictional Greek cafe, called the "Acropolis Cafe" in Melbourne that ran for 63 episodes broadcast from 9 August 1989 to 4 November 1992 on the Seven Network. It was created by Nick ...
'' (1989–1992) (sitcom) *'' Jackaroo'' (1990) (miniseries) *'' The Feds'' (1993–1996) (crime drama, telemovie series) *'' Newlyweds'' (1993–1994) (sitcom) *''
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 ...
'' (1994) (children's drama) *'' State Coroner'' (1997–1998) (courtroom drama, legal drama) *''
The Saddle Club ''The Saddle Club'' is an Australian-Canadian children's television series developed by Sarah Dodd, based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three best friends in ...
'' (2001–2009) (children's drama) *''
Guinevere Jones ''Guinevere Jones'' is a fantasy television series and a series of four novels created by Elizabeth Stewart. It revolves around the adventures of the title character as she uses magic to fight evil, while at the same time dealing with problems an ...
'' (2002) (children's drama)


References

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