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Come Midnight Monday
''Come Midnight Monday'' is a 1982 Australian children's TV series. It consisted of seven 30 minute episodes first broadcast in 1982.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 124-125 Plot summary Four teenagers fight plans to close the Winnawadgery railway, scrap its veteran steam engine ''Wombat'' and build a highway in its place. Their campaign runs into opposition from a prominent local businessman. They enlist the help of retired engine driver Angus McPhee. Production The script was written by regular Bellbird (TV series), ''Bellbird'' writer Roger Dann, adapted from the children's novel by David Burke OAM. It was filmed mainly on location at Cockatoo, Victoria, Cockatoo in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The train sequences were filmed on the Puffing Billy Railway with Victorian Railways NA class, NA class locomotive 12A portraying the ''Wombat''. Cast * Stephen Comey as Tim Forsyth * Tim Blake (actor), Tim Blake as Squeak Hoolihan * Sally Boyden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Comey
Stephen Comey (born in London, England in 1963) is an English Australian actor. He is the son of Irishman Albert Comey and his Australian wife Dennise Lee. The Comey's moved to Australia in 1969. Biography Stephen Comey appeared in the Crawford Productions drama ''Cop Shop'' (1982), and ABC's ''Come Midnight Monday'' (1982) but is best known for his role as Kevin Palmer in the television soap opera '' Sons and Daughters''. Steve appeared in the series from its debut in 1981 until 1984 for which he won the 1983 Logie Award for "Most Popular New Talent". Other television productions that Stephen Comey has appeared in include Kennedy Miller's ''Vietnam'', Seven's ''Hey Dad'', Seven's ''Home and Away'' and Nine's ''The Flying Doctors''. Stage credits include the Sydney Theatre Company's ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' and the Pavilion Theatre's ''The Lion in Winter'' for the Castle Hill Players. Comey now works as the Senior Exhibition Manager for the Australian Wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Blake (actor)
Timothy Blake (born 6 February 1952, in Shepherd's Bush, London) is an English keyboardist, synthesist, vocalist, and composer, who is known for working with Gong, Hawkwind and his synthesizer and light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light artist Patrice Warrener. Blake met Daevid Allen at Marquee Studios, where the latter was recording his first solo album '' Banana Moon'' in 1971. At the end of the sessions, Allen had invited Blake to be Gong's sound mixer, but Blake preferred to work on his own music. He eventually joined Gong full-time in September 1972 as the band's synthesizer player, being among the first to bring the synthesizer out of the studio and on to the stage. He appears on all three albums of the ''Radio Gnome Invisible'' trilogy; '' Flying Teapot'', '' Angel's Egg'', and ''You'', in fact Blake is the only composer, apart from the Allen/Smyth partnership, to have written for all three of the "Trilogy" Albums, making him one of Gong's most im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Boyden (singer)
Sally Ann Boyden (born 21 May 1965) is an Australian singer, songwriter, children’s television program writer and actress. Boyden commenced her performance career, at the age of seven, on TV series, ''Young Talent Time'', in 1973. After leaving in 1976, she released her debut solo album, ''The Littlest Australian'' (early 1976), and appeared on United States TV's ''The Waltons'' (season 6, a 2 part episode: The Children's Carol, in 1977) to begin her international acting career. Biography Early years to ''Young Talent Time'' Sally Boyden was born on 21 May 1965 to Bradley, a car dealership owner, and Carmen Boyden. Boyden grew up in Essendon with three siblings, she attended Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School for primary education. She later attended Melbourne Girls Grammar for secondary education. Boyden began her television career as a performer on ''Young Talent Time'' (YTT) in 1973, at the age of seven. In June 1976 Bradley described how "Television has never interf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqui Gordon
Jacqui Gordon (born 1962, Melbourne) credited also Jacqui Lockhead, is an Australian actress. She appeared in television dramas, including ''Prisoner'' as Susie Driscoll, ''Cop Shop'', '' Homicide'', ''Matlock Police'' , ''Division 4'', ''The Sullivans'', ''The Flying Doctors ''The Flying Doctors'' is an Australian drama TV series produced by Crawford Productions that revolves around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. ...'' and '' Neighbours'' as Kerry O'Donnell. She toured the United Kingdom in a stage play version of Prisoner in 1990. Selected Filmography References External links * Actresses from Melbourne Australian film actresses Australian soap opera actresses Living people 1962 births 20th-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian women 21st-century Australian people {{Australia-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Dysart
Thomas Gibson Dysart (24 December 1935 – 7 June 2022) was a Scottish-born Australian actor, known for his appearances on television dramas and comedies and in character roles in films and miniseries. Early career Dysart graduated from NIDA in 1959, and started his career as a vocalist and performed in theatre. Film and TV roles High-profile early roles included appearances in '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', ''Phoenix Five'', and several roles in the Crawford Productions police drama series '' Homicide'', ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'' and ''Cop Shop''. Dysart appeared briefly in the series ''Prisoner'' in the early 1980s, where he played what is perhaps his best-known acting role, that of vicious and cold prison officer Jock Stewart. In the storyline, after being fired from the prison service Stewart admitted to prisoner Judy Bryant that he was the one responsible for murdering her lesbian lover, fellow prisoner Sharon Gilmour. This revelation brought to a close a murd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellbird (TV Series)
''Bellbird'' is an Australian soap opera serial set in a small fictional Victorian rural township of the show's title. The series was produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at its Ripponlea TV studios in Elsternwick, Melbourne. The opening title sequence was filmed at Daylesford, Victoria. Having run for 10 years, from 1967 until 1977, it was the longest-running soap opera/serial ever produced by the ABC. It ended the same year as commercial broadcast series '' Number 96'' and '' The Box'', which had run for six and four years respectively. Production and broadcasting The series was screened from 28 August 1967 to 23 December 1977. Although ''Bellbird'' was not Australia's first television serial (the first was Network Seven's ''Autumn Affair''), it was the first successful soap opera and even spawned a feature film and tie-in novel. The show's ratings were modest but it had a devoted following, especially in rural Australia. During most of its 10-year producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cockatoo, Victoria
Cockatoo is a town in Victoria, Australia, 48 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area. Cockatoo recorded a population of 4,408 at the 2021 census. Cockatoo is named after Cockatoo Creek, which runs through the town, and which the town was previously named. History Cockatoo was named after Cockatoo Creek. It was first settled in the 1870s but progress was tardy as the land was difficult to clear. A Post Office was not opened until 1 November 1901 when the railway arrived and was known as Cockatoo Creek until 1917. Shortly after the end of the World War I, a large number of immigrants went to live in Cockatoo while working in Melbourne. The most significant wave was made by Italians. Timbergetting was the major source of employment and this industry received a considerable boost when the narrow-gauge railway from Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook was completed in 1900. Moreover, the railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puffing Billy Railway
The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century. It is close to the city of Melbourne and is one of the most popular steam heritage railways in the world, attracting tourists from Australia and overseas. The railway aims to preserve and restore the line as near as possible to how it was in the first three decades of its existence, but with particular emphasis on the early 1920s. The primary starting point is Belgrave station which houses the railway's operations and administration centre. The line runs through Lakeside Station where a visitor information centre provides catering and an indoor interpretive space. The south-eastern terminus is Gembrook railway station. In 2022 the railway also returned the traditional Puffing Billy Railway dangling of legs from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Railways NA Class
The Victorian Railways NA class is a 2-6-2 tank locomotive built for their four 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge branch lines. The Baldwin Locomotive Works in the United States supplied the first two 2-6-2 tank locomotives, as well as a range of spare parts. These two engines were numbered 1A and 2A and were both placed in service for construction of the Wangaratta to Whitfield line in the North East of Victoria in September 1898. The spare parts from the Baldwin Locomotive Works were used to construct locomotives 3A and 4A at Newport Workshops in 1900 for the Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Line, with further examples of the class entering service up to the last, number 17A, in 1915. Engines 2 and 4 used Vauclain compound high- and low-pressure cylinders, while the rest of the class used simple expansion cylinders. In 1920 parts were made for 2 more NAs—18A and 19A—but due to a downturn in traffic the order was cancelled, and the parts were used as spares on the other NAs. By th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cummins
Peter Cummins (born 2 June 1931 in Melbourne) is an Australian retired character actor of stage and screen and chorister who was especially prominent in the 1970s and appeared in some of the most famous Australian films of the period. He was part of the Carlton group that were influential in Australian theatre of the early 1970s, which also included David Williamson, Max Gillies, Graeme Blundell and Bruce Spence. ''Talking Heads'', 29 June 2009, accessed 9 Oct 2012 Select film credits *'' Nothing like Experience '' (1970) *'' Country Town'' (1971) *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
