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Life At
2006
star 0.5The Life Series aims to unlock the secrets of child development by following a very special group of children from the day they were born. It examines how children grow and develop in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances, including the impact of family relationships, finances, work, health and education. It considers the interplay of nature and nurture, conducts experiments and speaks to experts about how the latest science on child development may be playing out in these families.Outback House
2005
Outback House
2005
Outback House was an Australian historical reality TV series that originally aired on ABC TV in 2005. The series was based on several series produced by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and PBS in the United States, in which the concept was to have a modern day family living in a facsimile of an historical dwelling with their staff, making do with only the technology and materials of the time. Outback House was set in 1861 Outback Australia, on a sheep station called Oxley Downs in New South Wales.Secret Recipes
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Secret Recipes
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Minty
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Minty
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Minty is a 1998 Australian / British comedy television series, in which Australian actress Angela Kelly appeared in the dual roles of Minty and Melanie. The 13-episode series was co-produced by Scottish Television and RT Films in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and supported by ScreenWest and The Lotteries Commission of Western Australia.The 7.30 Report
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The 7.30 Report
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The 7.30 Report was an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at 7.30pm, Mondays–Thursdays. Its sister program, Stateline was shown at the same time on Friday nights. In 2011, it was replaced by 7.30, a revamped current affairs program presented by Leigh Sales and Chris Uhlmann.The Gillies Report
1984
star 7The Gillies Report was an Australian satirical television series that was broadcast on the ABC between 1984 and 1985. The program was notorious for sending up politicians and media personalities of the day such as Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock. The show starred Max Gillies, John Clarke, Wendy Harmer, Phillip Scott, Tracy Harvey, Patrick Cook, Marcus Eyre, Geoff Kelso and Peter Moon. The Gillies Report was followed by sequels The Gillies Republic and Gillies and Company. Cook, Scott and Kelso would go on to make a similar program for the ABC called The Dingo Principle.Picture Page
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Picture Page
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Picture Page was an early Australian television series which aired from 1956 to 1957 on ABC. It was hosted by Valerie Cooney. The half-hour prime-time series was of a magazine format. In the 19 April 1957 episode, the program presented Donald McMichael, curator of shells in the Australian Museum, who showed shell specimens. The 9 August 1957 edition featured Pat Spencer, a vocalist, along with "leading Sydney models". R.C. Packer in the magazine Australian Women's Weekly gave the show a positive review, saying "it has an off-beat attractiveness". Aired live in Sydney, by some point in 1957 the series was aired in Melbourne via telerecordings, also known as kinescope recordings. It is not known if any of these 16mm film recordings still exist.Mr. Squiggle
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Mr. Squiggle
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Mr. Squiggle was Australia's longest-running children's television series, and the name of the title character from that ABC show. The show has been presented in many formats, from five minute slots to a one-and-a-half hour variety show featuring other performers, and has had several name changes, originally airing as Mr. Squiggle and Friends.Spies in the Outback
2024
Spies in the Outback
2024
Dive into the murky world of spies, lies and secrets surrounding the most secretive place in Australia. Pine Gap has been called a space base, a spy base, an obscenity hidden on the fringe of an outback Australian town.Behind the News
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star 6Behind the News is a long-running news program broadcast on Australia's ABC1 made in Adelaide and aimed at school-aged children. BtN is aimed at upper primary and lower secondary students with the goal of helping them understand current issues and events in their world. Behind the News explores major news events using the language, music and popular culture of young people. The program explains the concepts that underpin the issues and events, while also providing background information that puts current affairs into context. Behind the News also covers kids' issues often overlooked by mainstream news, and makes use of online resources including streaming video of BtN stories, study materials for teachers and additional information and activities for students. BtN explains news items in a fun, simplistic way that is easy to understand. In 2004 Behind the News was temporarily axed due to Government budget cuts but returned to air in 2005. While BtN was the first and original program of this nature, a similar progrThe Poles Revealed
2022
The Poles Revealed
2022
This series explores the harshest yet most beautiful regions on Earth - The Poles. The human stories, the natural history and the science are woven to tell a rich tale of an unknown world.Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?
2006
star 8Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? is an Australian documentary film about the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler in Sydney, Australia in 1963. Although it was assumed the couple were murdered, police investigators could find or produce no evidence that it was actually murder. The documentary, directed and written by Australian documentary film maker Peter Butt, presents unique evidence to suggest the couple died from hydrogen sulphide poisoning emanating from a river.Wandjina!
1967
Wandjina!
1967
Wandjina! was an Australian children's science fantasy television series produced by ABC Television and first aired in 1966. The story was inspired by Dreamtime mythology of the spirit ancestors of the Kimberly region of north-West Australia and is about three teenagers who become caught up in an adventure linked to local sacred Aboriginal cave paintings of the Wandjina — the "people from the sky" who visited long ago, in the Dreamtime. Wandjina! was the first integrated film and videotape drama production ever undertaken by the ABC in Sydney.Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer
2024
70 years after a body is found floating in a Sydney river, middle aged doctor Jack learns his father, a Holocaust survivor, is allegedly responsible for the unsolved murder of a Nazi and sets out on a quest to find the truth.Kakadu
2013
star 6This is the untold story of a year in Kakadu, Australia's largest terrestrial national park. Through the rangers' eyes, and the scientists and traditional owners, this documentary series will take the viewer on a first time journey behind the scenes of a natural universe.Sugar and Spice
1989
Sugar and Spice
1989
In 1920s Australia, Pixie Robinson and Molly Wilson, two eleven-year-old girls from the bush, are sent to live with Pixie's grandmother to attend the same private high-school in the city.Australia's Prime Ministers
2011
Do you know which former Prime Minister was present at the hanging of Ned Kelly? Or which two Prime Ministers worked as miners before they became leaders? From the Australian Prime Ministers Centre at the Museum of Australian Democracy, this series profiles Australia's Leaders, featuring their career highights and giving insights into the different eras in which they lead the nation. Each three-minute episode examines one Prime Minister and is brought to life with extensive archival material.Miracles
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Miracles
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Stateline
1996
Stateline
1996
Stateline was a television current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It provided analysis of state and municipal politics as well as insight into state and regional issues in a current affairs journalistic style. The program was known for its interviews with politicians, and for its coverage of important regional issues. The ABC announced in December 2010 that the state-based current affairs program Stateline would be folded into a new 7.30 brand from March 2011. The change saw 7.30 extended to five nights a week, although Friday editions continue to be presented locally and focus on state affairs.Crime Time
2008
star 6Crime Time is a series of animated shorts produced by Future Thought Productions, produced by Jay Zaveri and Steven Kasper, directed by Nassos Vakalis.
