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Blue Heelers Season 6
The sixth season of the Australian police-drama ''Blue Heelers'' premiered on the Seven Network on 10 February 1999 and aired on Wednesday evenings at 8:30 PM. The 42-episode season concluded on 24 November 1999. The main cast was mostly the same as the previous season with the departure of William McInnes as Nick Schultz and Damian Walshe-Howling as Adam Cooper, and the introductions of Rupert Reid as Jack Lawson and Jane Allsop as Jo Parrish, the latter having previously guest starred in season 4 episode "Fool for Love". As with previous seasons, the sixth season was released on DVD as both a two part and complete set, both on 10 August 2006. Casting Main * John Wood as Senior Sergeant Tom Croydon * Julie Nihill as Chris Riley * Martin Sacks as Senior Detective P.J. Hasham * Lisa McCune as Acting Sergeant / Senior Constable Maggie Doyle * Tasma Walton as Constable Dash McKinley (episodes 1–23) * Paul Bishop as Senior Constable / Acting Sergeant Ben Stewart * Rupe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of the five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it was the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2024, Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa McCune
Lisa McCune (born 19 February 1971) is an Australian actress, known for her role in TV series ''Blue Heelers'' as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle, and in ''Sea Patrol'' as Lieutenant Kate McGregor RAN. She has won four Gold Logie Awards. McCune has also featured in many theatre roles. Early life Born in Sydney,Biography – Youth lisamccune.net McCune grew up in Perth. She first performed on stage at the age of 15 playing Dorothy in '' The Wizard of Oz'' at the Limelight Theatre in Wanneroo, Western Australia. After atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Knight
Margot Knight is an Australian actress of television and stage, voice artist and a screenwriter. She had numerous guest roles in TV series and telemovies, but is best known for her stints playing two roles in the highly popular cult series ''Prisoner'' (known internationally as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H''); she played inmate Sharon Gilmour in 1980 and junior prison officer Terri Malone in 1985. TV roles: ''Neighbours'' and ''Prisoner'' Knight appeared in ''Neighbours'', playing two different roles Jean Richards in 1986 and Tracey Cox in 1997. Her ''Prisoner'' appearances are notable because in addition to being one of the few cast members to play both a prisoner and a prison warder in the series, both of her roles were as the lesbian love interest to the show's main lesbian character at the time. Sharon Gilmour was the scheming drug pushing girlfriend of long-term inmate Judy Bryant (Betty Bobbitt) (Judy's long stay in prison actually began because she deliberately had her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Grubb
Robert Grubb (born 31 January 1950) is an Australian actor. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), where he graduated"Local star's flying high" by Craig Wellington, '' Sunday Tasmanian'' (21 Feb, 2010) Retrieved from in 1978. There he was a fellow student of actor Mel Gibson. Grubb played the role of Dr. Geoffrey Standish in the popular series '' The Flying Doctors''. He won Australia's Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his stage portrayal of ''Pop'' in the Australian production of the Queen musical, ''We Will Rock You''. In 1998, he played The Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Stephen Sondheim’s ''Into the Woods''. In 2016, he played Dimitri Weissman in Sondheim’s '' Follies'' at Melbourne Recital Centre. In 2024, he played Max in ''Sunset Boulevard'' opposite Sarah Brightman. He also narrated "Rainforest Beneath the Canopy" in 2004. Grubb was reprising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Yemm
Norman Yemm (23 March 1933 – 3 February 2015) was an Australian actor, opera singer and sportsman. Career Film and TV Yemm's film roles include ''Night of Fear'' and ''The Fourth Wish'' On the small screen he may be best remembered for his long-running role in the television drama ''The Sullivans'' as Norm Baker. He had previously played regular roles in ''Homicide'' as Detective Jim Patterson and '' Number 96'' as Harry Collins. Further TV credits include ''Prisoner'' as police officer Eddie Stevens, ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'', ''Riptide'', ''Tandarra'', ''A Country Practice'', '' Possession'', ''Neighbours'', ''The Henderson Kids'', ''Blue Heelers'' and '' Something in the Air''. Theatre Yemm appeared in such roles as ''Don Pasquale]'', he was a frequent performer in musical theatre including roles in ''Oklahoma'' and ''The Pirates of Penzance'', ''South Pacific'' and ''The Sound of Music'' As a vocalist he had spent years as chief baritone with Opera Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Piro
Grant Piro is an Australian actor. He is best known as the host of the children's television show '' Couch Potato'' on the ABC. He also appeared as Captain Schnepel in ''Escape From Pretoria''. Personal life He is married to Australian soprano and musical theatre icon Marina Prior. They have 5 children in a blended family. Two of the children are biologically Piro’s from a former relationship (Jackson and Madison), while three are biologically Prior’s from a former relationship. Career He began his career in 1983 in the Australian television soap opera '' Sons and Daughters''. After completing George Miller's film '' Bushfire Moon'' (''Miracle Down Under'') in 1987, a chance meeting with British comedy legend Ray Cooney led to a three-year stint in the UK where he appeared in several of Ray's plays: ''It Runs in the Family'', ''Wife Begins at Forty'', the latter alongside the great Jimmy Edwards, as well as TV programs such as ''Casualty'' and '' Shelley''. He returned to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Crittenden
Lisa Crittenden (born 1962) is an Australian former actress, noted for her roles in various television series, such as '' The Restless Years'' (as Briony Thompson, 1981), '' The Sullivans'' (as Sally Meredith), ''Prisoner'' (as Maxine Daniels 1982–83), '' Sons and Daughters'' (as Leigh Palmer 1985–86), ''Rafferty's Rules'' (1988) and the New Zealand produced ''Shortland Street'' (as Carrie Burton 1992–93). She had 3 roles in drama Blue Heelers ''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for twelve years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006. Although based around the policing of the town, the series generally depicted th ... and also played a lead role in mini-series '' Whose Baby?'' and made a guest appearance as Gabrielle's mother Hecuba in '' Xena: Warrior Princess''. Personal life Crittenden has been married to Gary Moore, a freelance director of photography, since 1986. She currently resides in Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Donovan (actor)
Terence Donovan (born 28 October 1942), also billed as Terence J. Donovan and Terry Donovan, is a British-Australian actor of stage, television and film, and the father of actor and singer Jason Donovan (from his marriage to actress and journalist Sue McIntosh). Donovan worked in his native England, but is best known to audiences for his roles in Australian soap opera including ''Neighbours'' as patriarch Doug Willis and in ''Home and Away'' as Al Simpson''. ''He has appeared in Australian TV drama series since the 1960s, including police drama series ''Division 4'' and ''Cop Shop'', as well as minor parts in numerous serials including ''The Prisoner'', '' Sons and Daughters'', ''A Country Practice'' and '' E Street.'' Career Donovan, who was born in Staines-upon-Thames, Middlesex (now in northwest Surrey) England, United Kingdom, has been a staple of Australian television since the early 1960s, when he had minor roles in episodes of the court-room drama series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Clarke (actor)
Jason Clarke (born 17 July 1969) is an Australian actor. He has appeared in many TV series, and is known for playing Tommy Caffee on the television series ''Brotherhood (American TV series), Brotherhood''. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist. His film roles include ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''White House Down'' (2013), ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014), ''Terminator Genisys'' (2015), ''Everest (2015 film), Everest'' (2015), ''All I See Is You (film), All I See Is You'' (2016), ''Mudbound (film), Mudbound'' (2017), ''The Man with the Iron Heart (film), The Man with the Iron Heart'' (2017), ''Chappaquiddick (film), Chappaquiddick'' (2017), ''First Man (film), First Man'' (2018), ''Pet Sematary (2019 film), Pet Sematary'' (2019), ''The Devil All the Time (film), The Devil All the Time'' (2020), and ''Oppenheimer (film), Oppenheimer'' (2023). In 2022, he starred in the HBO sports drama series ''Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty'' as forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Hood
Kate Hood (born ) is an Australian actress, born in Sydney. She studied drama in New Zealand and joined The Mercury Theatre. She is best known to international audiences for her role in the cult television drama ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner'' as the misunderstood Kath Maxwell during the final year of the series. She also played Jill Fowley on three episodes of ''Blue Heelers'' during its sixth season, and is the voice behind many TAC commercials. She had a part in the Jodie Foster film ''My Letter to George, Mesmerized''. In 2003, Hood was diagnosed with HSP (hereditary spastic paraplegia). She is a wheelchair user. Hood said of the diagnosis that she underwent two years of unsuccessful treatment with a chiropractor before seeing a neurologist. In 2023, Hood was added to an advisory board of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Other activities Hood is the director of Raspberry Ripple Productions, a production company that focuses on helping disabled actors work with people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Stewart (Blue Heelers)
Benjamin 'Ben' Stewart was a fictional character in the long-running Australian police series ''Blue Heelers''. He was portrayed by Paul Bishop. His first appearance on the series took place in the middle of season 5 as a guest, before returning to the series as a full-time cast member from later in season 5 until season 11. Initially, he was a visiting Detective Acting Sergeant from the Organised Crime Squad, but was accused of the murder of a suspect by another visitor, Detective Sergeant Peppy Romano of the Homicide Squad. After it was discovered that Romano himself was responsible for the murder, as well as the attempted framing of Ben Stewart, Ben assaulted Peppy while Peppy was handcuffed, which led to Peppy being dismissed from the force and charged, and Ben was demoted back into uniform as a Senior Constable. Shortly after, he was then posted to Mount Thomas permanently. In the series, he fell for Maggie Doyle upon arriving and the two had a brief relationship, but lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bishop (actor)
Paul Bishop is an Australian actor and politician who has served as the Division 10 Councillor in Redland City since 2012. Early life Bishop was born in Gladstone, Queensland and raised in Wynnum, Queensland. He attended Brisbane State High School. Career Bishop's film debut was in Bruce Beresford's 1997 movie '' Paradise Road'', and appeared as Sergeant Ben Stewart on ''Blue Heelers'' from 1998 to 2004 for which he received Logie nominations in both 1999 and 2000. Other roles include the telemovie '' Never Tell me Never'', '' MDA III'', ''Heartbreak High'', and '' G.P.'' with ABCTV, '' House Gang'' with SBS, and ''Murder Call'' for Channel 9. Theatre roles include ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', '' Three Days of Rain'', '' Money and Friends'', ''Take Me Out'', ''The Shaughraun'', at Melbourne Theatre Company, ''Blackrock'', '' The John Wayne Principle'' and Anthony Crowley's '' The Frail Man'' at Melbourne's Playbox, '' The John Wayne Principle'', ''As You Like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
