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- StarsHelen MorseBryan BrownGordon JacksonSet against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
- StarsBryan BrownBill HunterCarol BurnsA miniseries on the Eureka Rebellion in Australia back in 1854
- StarsBryan BrownNoni HazlehurstRebecca SmartMacauley is a swagman who finds himself in charge of his young daughter, Buster. The pair hike across the harsh outback landscape, in an attempt to repair their relationship and find a home.
- StarsPaul CroninSteven TandyReg GormanFollows the Sullivan family from Melbourne, Australia during the Second World War.
- StarsRebecca SmartClayton WilliamsonAbigailAfter their home is robbed for the third time, the Trevaller family relocates from Sydney to the small town of Waterloo Creek, where Jools Trevaller encounters Elly - a Ghost.
- StarsCallan MulveyLara CoxEmma RocheA crash course in the turbulence of being a teen is always on the schedule for the students at Hartley High School in this 1990s series set in Sydney.
- StarsJudith McGrathGeorgie ParkerTammy MacintoshA drama series centred on the lives of the nurses at All Saints Western General Hospital.
- CreatorHal McElroyTony MorphettJohn HugginsonStarsBrett PartridgePeter BensleyToni ScanlanBeneath its surface exists a playground for the murky underworld, pollution hazards, the remnants of huge drug hauls, and a graveyard of bodies from years of suicides, accidents and murders. That's the world of the WATER RATS.
- CreatorHal McElroyTony MorphettStarsJulie NihillJohn WoodMartin SacksThe series primarily focuses on the daily lives of Victorian police officers working at a police station in the fictional small town of Mount Thomas.
- StarsLenore SmithMaurie FieldsRobert GrubbFollows the lives of a group of medical professions working for the Flying Doctors Service in the remote Australian outback.
- StarsShane PorteousBrian WenzelLorrae DesmondThe highs and lows of the Wandin Valley residents, from the patients and staff at the rural town's hospital, to the locals and their everyday lives.
- StarsAndrew ClarkeBrett ClimoGuy PearceInspired by Banjo Paterson's famous poem, The Man from Snowy River, this series is about cattle rancher Matt McGregor, his family, and their neighbours in the township of Paterson's Ridge in Australia's Snowy Mountains.
- CreatorBevan LeeStarsJohn HowardAnne TenneyMichala BanasEvery city-dweller daydreams sometimes about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the "Big Smoke". Always Greener is the story of two families who actually dare to give it a go.
- CreatorTony AyresLouise FoxStarsPatrick BrammallEmma BoothSean KeenanSeven people return from the dead with no memory and attempt to unveil what brought them to the grave in the first place.
- StarsSigrid ThorntonJohn WatersDarius PerkinsOrphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
- StarsJohn JarrattSteve BisleyElaine KussackAustralia's most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsKirk DouglasTom BurlinsonTerence DonovanIn 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
- StarsKenneth BranaghSigrid ThorntonSteve BisleyIn the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsPeter PhelpsNick WatersJohn LarkingIn 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
- DirectorGeoff BurrowesStarsTom BurlinsonSigrid ThorntonBrian DennehyYoung Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend, Jessica, is being pursued by another man, and her father, Harrison, doesn't want him back into her life.
- CreatorDavid JacobsRobert PorterStarsLee HorsleyJenny BeckMatthew NewmarkIn 1890 in the town of Paradise, a professional gunfighter is forced to take custody of his sister's four children and retire to a farm and a quiet life. Nevertheless, he is often called upon by residents to defend them from lawlessness.
- CreatorDeb CoxAndrew KnightStarsJohn HowardSigrid ThorntonKerry ArmstrongA big city lawyer is prompted to undergo a 'seachange' with her children and becomes the magistrate at the small coastal town of Pearl Bay, where the family comes to love its people and the quality time with each other.
- DirectorMichael JenkinsStarsClaudia KarvanAlex DimitriadesSteve BastoniA first-year teacher in the suburbs of Melbourne starts to have second thoughts about her future when she develops a bond with a teenage student.
- StarsLucy BellBernard CurryRebecca GibneyThe family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s.
- CreatorJonathan M. ShiffStarsMarzena GodeckiDavid HoflinJeffrey WalkerSet against the beauty of Far North Queensland, Ocean Girl is the story of Neri, a mysterious young girl from the ocean, who is discovered by the young inhabitants of an underwater research colony.
- CreatorGina RileyJane TurnerStarsJane TurnerGina RileyGlenn RobbinsA mother, her daughter, and their respective "hunks of spunk" negotiate life in suburban Australia.
- StarsKatharine CullenMelissa MarshallJames FindlayIn the year 3000, Alana is kidnapped by evil Silverthorn, after a time travel experiment goes wrong. He takes Alana to the year 1990. With the help of Jenny Kelly and family, Alana must find Silverthorn before the time capsule leaves.
- CreatorMark ShirrefsJohn ThomsonStarsZbych TrofimiukGosia PiotrowskaBrian RooneyWhen a prank at a school camp goes drastically wrong, 15-year-old Paul Reynolds is blasted into an alternative reality and has to try to find a way home.
- StarsJohn MillsPhilip HancockJohn BachThe authorities want to take Spit MacPhee (Philip Hancock) away from his grandfather, Fyfe MacPhee (Sir John Mills), and put him in a children's home, but the young whippersnapper has other ideas.
- DirectorPeter MaxwellStarsSimone BuchananJeremy ShadlowScott NicholasA trio of kids have many exciting adventures while exploring a spooky mansion in the hope of finding their missing friends.
- DirectorBill HughesStarsJohn WatersTom OliverTerry SerioFollowing the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is to be run in a race that will break him.
- StarsAndrew McFarlaneLorna PattersonKeith EdenFollows the lives of those in the Australian outback flying-doctor service.
- CreatorJohn FlanaganGary ReillyStarsJulie McGregorRobert HughesSarah MonahanThis is Australia's longest-running comedy series, following the hilarious adventures of top architect Martin Kelly, who gives up his business to raise his three children. And the kid next door, Nudge.
- StarsBrenda FrickerSandy GoreJosephine ByrnesDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.
- CreatorBevan LeeStarsRebecca GibneyErik ThomsonMichael CatonMeet Dave and Julie Rafter: just your average Australians with three adult children. On the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary it seems that they're about to have their house to themselves at long last.
- CreatorPino AmentaPhilip DalkinJohn PowditchStarsJon EnglishSteven JacobsJane HallOne-time Rock'n'Roll star Bobby Rivers discovers he has 15-year-old twins when his former lover dies in a plane crash. They and Tracy, the woman who looked after them when their mother was travelling the world, move in with him.
- StarsPeter PhelpsKate KendallAnita HeghStingers reveals the shadowy and ambiguous world of undercover cops - people with covert lives and constantly changing identities. They are the police who defeat crime from within the criminal world.
- CreatorPosie Graeme-EvansCaroline StantonStarsAaron JefferyRachael CarpaniSimmone MackinnonEstranged sisters Claire and Tess are reunited after 20 years when they inherit their family's cattle station, "Drover's Run", in the outback of South Australia, following their father's death.
- CreatorRobyn ButlerWayne HopeStarsAnnie MaynardPatrick BrammallRobyn MalcolmMiddle class woman, Bess Denyar, discovers she's adopted. She's shocked to find her birth parents head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs.
- CreatorChristopher LeeJohn EdwardsStarsRodger CorserCallan MulveyNicole da SilvaThey are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide.
- StarsPaul FenechJohn BoxerAnnalise BraakensiekThe show focuses on the activities of Pauly and his fellow co-workers as they deliver pizzas for "Fat Pizza", the Sydney-based pizzeria of Bobo Gigliotti, whose slogan is "they're big and they're cheesy".
- CreatorImogen BanksJohn EdwardsStarsBrenna HardingAshleigh CummingsSean KeenanTeen best friends Debbie and Sue grow up and find love and freedom on the beaches of Sydney's Sutherland Shire during the tumultuous 1970s.
- CreatorJohn EdwardsAmanda HiggsStarsDeborah MailmanDavid TredinnickSamuel JohnsonThis iconic Australian series follows eight people living in St Kilda, Melbourne who are all looking for the same things: love, sex, romance, success, and anything else that's worth pursuing.