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Judith McGrath was an Australian TV actress who was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland and she was most known for her roles in Australian TV Drama Prisoner (1979) as acidic and sarcastic officer Colleen 'Po Face' Powell where she stayed for until the 1984 season before moving on and working extensively in the Australian Theatre Company before her next big role in Australian romance/medical drama A Country Practice (1981) and then working several years later in one of Australia's most beloved TV dramas All Saints (1998) which ran for 12 years and earned McGrath a logie nomination for best actress, during the series 493 episodes McGrath only missed one episode.

McGrath retired from acting in 2012 after her final on-screen role on the TV drama Winners & Losers (2011) and lived quietly until her death in 2017. McGrath died in 2017 aged 70 after a battle with lung cancer.

A Drama graduate of the University of Queensland, Bille Brown is a well-known Shakespearean actor. He began with the Queensland Theatre Company and, later, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Strathford and London. While with the RSC, he was one of its few commissioned writers.

Bille Brown AM has been recognised twice in the Australian Honours System. On 1 January 2001 he was granted the Centenary Medal "for distinguished service to the arts" and on 26 January 2011, Bille was named as a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the performing arts as an actor and playwright, and to education". The latter honour is denoted by the post-nominal "AM" after his name.

Carol Burns was born on 29 October 1947 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was an actress, known for Prisoner (1979), The Mango Tree (1977) and Tracks (2013). She was married to Alan Lawrence. She died on 22 December 2015 in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Mark Toia was a director and writer, known for Monsters of Man (2020), UFO Man and The last Yowie. He died on 23 October 2023 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Reginald 'Reg' Watson AM was an Australian Television producer and screenwriter best known for creating Australian Soap dramas Neighbours (1985) and Prisoner (1979), The Young Doctors (1976) and Sons and Daughters (1982), all the shows Watson helped create and produce would be multi-award winning shows

Watson grew up in Queensland on a farm, before roles as a radio actor and later an announcer. He moved to the UK in 1955 where he became Head Of Light Entertainment at ATV. After a successful time in the UK Watson would return to Australia and would become head of drama at Reg Grundy Productions creating other hit shows such as Starting Out, Waterloo Station, Possession, RIchmond Hill and many more.

Watson who rarely gave interviews retired from public life in 1992 and would not produce or create anymore new shows.

In 2010 Watson would be given a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to the media as a pioneer in the creation and production of serial television drama.

Watson would pass away in 2019 aged 93 after a short illness.

Never comfortable in front of the camera, Chris left Blue Peter after only 21 months. He became a journalist. As a war correspondent in Beirut, Lebanon he disappeared for 18 days. In 1995 in the Balkans working for ITN as a journalist for Channel 4, he was brutally beaten up by Serb civilians protesting over Kosovan Albanians.

Sam Cutler died on 11 July 2023 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Left school at 15; became commercial artist, film cartoonist, laundryman and bushworker. First novel won second prize in Australia's biggest literary contest, launching his writing career. Novel "Peter's Pence" one American Edgar Allen Poe Prize as best crime novel of 1974.

Patricia Hutchence was born on 6 July 1929 in Australia. She was a writer, known for Death Race 2000 (1975), Two Worlds Colliding and The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976). She was married to Kell Hutchence, ? Burgess and Ross Glassop. She died on 22 September 2010 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Alan Edwards was born on 17 January 1925 in the UK. He was an actor, known for The Children of the New Forest (1955), The Black Arrow (1951) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). He died on 14 January 2003 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

John Dommett was born in 1946 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was an actor and producer, known for The Box (1974), Division 4 (1969) and Matlock Police (1971). He died on 8 January 2004 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Johann Ofner died on 23 January 2017 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Jeff Seaholme was born on 8 January 1913 in Carshalton, Surrey, England, UK. Jeff is known for Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Avengers (1961) and The Man in the White Suit (1951). Jeff died on 17 January 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

For 70 years, Babette Stephens worked as an actor in theater, radio, TV and film. She was also a director, artistic director, talk show host, TV game show panelist and acting teacher. Her last acting student was Dwayne Lawler. In 1972, she was awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) - which she received personally from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace - for her services to theater. In 1994, she was awarded the AM (Member of the Order of Australia) for her services to the performing arts. Little wonder she was known as the "Grand Dame of Theater." She was given a standing ovation at her funeral by a final audience of more than 500 members of the entertainment industry. Her biography "Never Upstaged: Babette Stephens, her life and times," was published in 2004.

George Haywood was born on 16 January 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Service with the Colors (1940). He died in May 1991 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Billy J. Smith was born on 4 January 1946 in Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He died on 27 February 2019 in Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Tui Bow was born on 19 October 1906 in Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand. She was an actress, known for Frenchman's Farm (1987), Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926) and The Irishman (1978). She was married to Robert Bow. She died on 25 March 1993 in Alderley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Sue Dwyer was born on 6 October 1956 in Queensland, Australia. She was an actress, known for The Proposition (2005), Blue Heelers (1994) and Acolytes (2008). She died on 17 May 2013 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Jack Seccombe was born on 19 January 1919 in Australia. He was married to Norah Seccombe. He died on 5 October 2006 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Margo Dydek was born on 28 April 1974 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She died on 27 May 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Wilson Gavin died on 13 January 2020 in Chelmer, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Cyril Mackay was born in 1890 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Man from Snowy River (1920), The Mystery of the Black Pearl (1912) and Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague (1917). He died in July 1923 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Colin Thiele was born on 16 November 1920 in Eudunda, South Australia, Australia. He was a writer, known for O Processo do Rei (1990), Storm Boy (1976) and Sun on the Stubble (1996). He was married to Rhonda. He died on 4 September 2006 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Tiga Bayles was born on 6 October 1953 in Theodore, Queensland, Australia. He was a producer and actor, known for Two Women (2021), The Road to Stylin'Up (2012) and The Sleeping Warrior (2012). He died on 17 April 2016 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Peter Pinney was born on 10 June 1922 in Epping, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Peter was a writer, known for I Live with Me Dad (1985). Peter died on 22 October 1992 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.