An ABC Health Series that encourages kids to know themselves, like themselves and be themselves. These eight programs explore issues that concern young people and present a range of skills to help them manage their lives. The series has been researched and developed with the assistance of state and territory curriculum offers in the field of personal development, health and physical education.
A long election campaign needs a long desk. The Chaser offers a desk long enough to cover this year's explosive marathon with truly explosive explosiveness. The longest, most explosive desk. The Chaser's Election Desk.
Touch the Sun was a television series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Northern Territory, but only six were completed. Executive producer was Patricia Edgar in association with the ABC and production company Revcom.
Sisters of War is a telemovie based on the true story of two Australian women, Lorna Whyte, an army nurse and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Catholic nun from New South Wales who survived as prisoners of war in Papua New Guinea during World War II. Sisters of War was written by John Misto, produced by Andrew Wiseman and directed by Brendan Maher. It made its debut at the Brisbane International Film Festival on 11 November 2010. It premiered on television on 14 November 2010 on Australian channel ABC1.
The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten, more commonly known as The Adventures of the Terrible Ten, was an Australian children's TV show that ran from 1959 to 1960. The series was filmed in rural Victoria. Fifty-two 10 minute episodes were created for the original series. The original episodes were re-edited and along with new footage were released in 1962 as The Ten Again. The series was originally screened on GTV-9; however, all repeats were aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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.
For Love or Money was an Australian antiques series premiering on ABC Television in 1987. Clive Hale was the host and there were various panelists, including Peter Cook, who appraised antiques sent in by viewers. The episodes were filmed in various historic locations and featured a special guest showing a prized personal procession of their own.
Auction Room is an Australian reality television series, hosted by William McInnes and is produced by and airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The show premiered on Sunday 15 April 2012 at 6pm, and has been renewed for a second series. Gordon Brown will be the presenter,replacing McInnes for the 2nd series.The 2nd series will begin broadcast in October 2012.