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Love Child
( dir. Geoff Bennett
et. al. )agent
Australia
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Playmaker Media
Nine Network
,
2014-
7030158
2014
series - publisher
film/TV
'A character drama set in 1969 in Kings Cross; the time and place Australia came of age and the new generation broke all the rules. It was the Summer of Love. Mick Jagger was in town, Australia was glued to the telecast of the moon landing and American sailors clashed on the street with anti-Vietnam war protesters. We follow Joan Millar, 28, a maverick midwife returning to Australia and five young pregnant women, whose choices for their babies and own lives exemplify the radical changes at the heart of the cultural and sexual revolution. Their lives intersect between a maternity hospital, a home for unwed mothers and the wild streets of Darlinghurst.'
Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 13/2/2014)
- 2015 shortlisted Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2015 shortlisted Logie Awards — Best Drama
- 2015 shortlisted Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series For series two.
- 2015 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Television Mini-Series - Original For series two.
- 2018 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
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form
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Packed To The Rafters
( dir. Pino Amenta
et. al. )agent
Sydney
:
Seven Network
,
2008-
Z1776179
2008-
series - publisher
film/TV
'Meet Dave and Julie Rafter - just your average Australians with three grown-up children. On the eve of their twenty-fifth wedding-anniversary it seems they're at last about to have the house to themselves. Offspring Rachel, Ben and Nathan have all developed into well-rounded and out-going, if exceptionally different and complex, individuals, with a raft of their own conflicts and dilemmas. But home can seem a very welcome refuge when unforeseen problems loom.'
Source: Australian Television Information Archive website, http://www.australiantelevision.net/
Sighted: 02/05/2011
- 2013 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2011 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2012 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2011 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
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form
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All Saints
All Saints : Medical Response Unit
( dir. Leigh Spence
et. al. )agent
1998
Australia
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Seven Network
Red Heart Entertainment
,
1998-2009
Z1571142
1998
series - publisher
film/TV
One of Australia's highest rating dramas, All Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama set in the fictional All Saints Western General Hospital in suburban Sydney. The stories originally focused on the nursing staff of Ward 17 run by Nursing Unit Manager Terri Sullivan. It was sometimes referred to as the 'garbage ward' because it took the overflow of patients.
In 2004 Network Seven producers overhauled the series in an effort to increase the show's gradually dwindling audience. They achieved this by closing down Ward 17 and transferring some of the staff to the Emergency Department managed by Frank Campion. Several other new lead characters were also introduced. The changes also saw the storylines begin to focus more on the lives of the doctors and nurses.
Another significant change to the series came in early 2009 when the producers introduced the Medical Response Unit. Central to this development was the helicopter which took doctors to rescue situations outside the hopsital and which in turn brought patients to the All Saints Emergency Department. The show's name was also changed at this time to All Saints: Medical Response Unit. The increased production costs created by having scenes shot on location played a part, however, in the series being cancelled mid-year. The series ended with the Emergency Department and Medical Response Unit teams having a dinner to farewell the last remaining original character, Von Ryan on her final day at All Saints.
All Saints was popular in many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Iran.
- 1999 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2000 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2001 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2001 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2002 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2005 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2007 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2008 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2010 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Series
- 2002 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2005 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2006 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2007 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series