Gary Reilly (born New Zealand, 1945) is an Australian radio and television producer and writer. He is known for his work on a variety of comedy series such as '' The Naked Vicar Show'', ''

Kingswood Country ''Kingswood Country'' is an Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on the Seven Network. The series started on 30 January 1980 and was a spin-off from the sketch on comedy program '' The Naked Vicar Show'' that had featured Ross H ...

'', '' Hey Dad..!'' and '' Bullpitt!''. He won several Australian Writers Guild awards and Logies, as well as being inducted into the Australian Writers' Hall Of Fame.

Career

Reilly started work as a trainee with the

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in 1964, working in various production roles before he moved to advertising; working mostly freelance in most of the industry's creative departments: as writer, art director, production manager, director and MC in New Zealand and Great Britain, then from 1970, in Australia. Around 1972 he teamed up with

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, initially to make television commercials, then with the advent of the

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's youth radio station 2JJ, to create humorous pieces: "anti-ads" satirizing the advertising industry, mock soap-operas (''The Novels of Fiona Wintergreen''), space-operas (''Chuck Chunder of the Space Patrol'') and hospital shows (''Doctors and Nurses''). The pivotal radio show for their company RS Productions was ''The Naked Vicar Show'' broadcast nationally from 1976 to 1977, subsequently Channel Seven commissioned a television version broadcast in 1977 and 1978, which in turn provided the basis for the Logie-winning ''

''. From 1984 Gary worked independently with his own company Gary Reilly Productions. From 1986 to 1994 Gary produced a series ''Hey Dad..'' for Channel Seven with writer

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, then in 1997 ''Bullpitt!'', featuring the main character ('Ted Bullpitt') from ''Kingswood Country'', now living in a retirement home.

Awards

Reilly and Sattler won two

Logie Awards The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as the ...

— Best Comedy * ''Kingswood Country'' 1981 and 1982. They won two Australian Writer's Guild

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— Best Comedy (radio) *1979 — ''You only live once'' *1980 — ''Sunday morning fever'' He and Sattler received the 1997 Australian Writer's Guild Freddie Parsons Award for Lifetime Contribution to Comedy.

References

External links

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717685/bio
1945 births Living people Australian advertising executives Australian comedy writers Australian television writers Australian television producers New Zealand emigrants to Australia Australian male television writers {{Australia-writer-stub