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John Lonie John Lonie i(A6638 works by) (a.k.a. J. R. Lonie)
Born: Established: 1946 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

A graduate of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and Head of Screenwriting there since 1999, Lonie began his writing career with the State Theatre of South Australia at the Adelaide Playhouse, working with and writing for Magpie, the company's theatre-in-education arm. He has credits in film and television, including True Believers (1987), The Paper Man (ABC 1990), GP, Police Rescue and A Country Practice, and has edited a number of scripts. In 1983 he translated Frank Wedekind's 1891 play Spring Awakening.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon A Place to Call Home ( dir. Roger Hodgman et. al. )agent 2013 Australia : Channel 7 , 2012- Z1904429 2013 series - publisher film/TV 'Set in rural Australia in the 1950s, A Place to Call Home is a sweeping drama of one woman's journey to heal her soul and of a privileged family's confrontation with a changing era. A romantic saga based in the fictional town of Inverness - home to the Bligh family estate Ash Park - with a landscape as vast and dramatic as the people who live there.' (Source: http://www.throng.com.au/2012/07/new-seven-show-a-place-to-call-home/ )
2015 shortlisted Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2015 nominated Logie Awards Best Drama
2014 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2018 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2017 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
form y separately published work icon Police Rescue ( dir. Michael Carson et. al. )agent 1989 Sydney Australia : Southern Star Xanadu ABC Television , 1989-1996 Z1703864 1989 series - publisher film/TV

An Australian television series which deals with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad and its work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.

1996 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Series
1994 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Series
form y separately published work icon A Country Practice ( dir. Igor Auzins et. al. )agent Sydney Australia : JNP Films Seven Network , 1981-1993 Z1699739 1981-1994 series - publisher film/TV

Set in a small, fictional, New South Wales country town called Wandin Valley, A Country Practice focused on the staffs of the town's medical practice and local hospital and on the families of the doctors, nurses, and patients. Many of the episodes also featured guest characters (frequently patients served by the practice) through whom various social and medical problems were explored. Although often considered a soap opera, the series was not built around an open-ended narrative; instead, the two one-hour episodes screened per week formed a self-contained narrative block, though many of the storylines were developed as sub-plots for several episodes before becoming the focus of a particular week's storyline. While the focus was on topical issues such as youth unemployment, suicide, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and terminal illness, the program did sometimes explore culturally sensitive issues, including, for example, the Aboriginal community and their place in modern Australian society.

Among the show's principal characters were Dr Terence Elliott, local policeman Sergeant Frank Gilroy, Esme Watson, Shirley Dean Gilroy, Bob Hatfield, Vernon 'Cookie' Locke, and Matron Margaret 'Maggie' Sloan. In addition to its regularly rotating cast of characters, A Country Practice also had a cast of semi-regulars who would make appearances as the storylines permitted. Interestingly, while the series initially targeted the adult and older youth demographic, it became increasingly popular with children over the years.

1984 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Series
1985 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Series
1986 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Series
1992 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Series

Known archival holdings

University of Queensland (Qld)
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