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Judy McBurney
Judith McBurney (19 May 1948 – 1 December 2018) was an Australian actress and model. She is best known for serial ''The Young Doctors'' in 1,300 episodes as Tania Livingstone and also appeared in cult series'' Prisoner'' as Sandra" Pixie" Mason in 96 episodes. Early career Before acting, McBurney started a successful career as a model employed by June Dally-Watkins. One of her first acting roles was in late 1969, in a supporting role in Peter Weir's short movie ''Michael'', one of three short movies released under the title ''Three to Go''. It followed by small parts in ABC TV-plays and guest roles in other TV series. Her first leading role was in 1972 as Ella Belairs in ABC's adaption of ''The Cousin from Fiji,'' based on a novel by Norman Lindsay. Another early and memorable role was as Aldith in '' Seven Little Australians''. Television soap operas In late 1973, McBurney was cast in the role of key new character Marilyn McDonald in '' Number 96'' but before any of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west, to the Royal National Park and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur in the south and south-west. Greater Sydney consists of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are colloquially known as "Sydneysiders". The estimated population in June 2024 was 5,557,233, which is about 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. The city's nicknames include the Emerald City and the Harbour City. There is ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scobie Malone (film)
''Scobie Malone'' (also known as ''Helga's Web'' and ''Murder at the Opera House'') is a 1975 Australian Erotic thriller, erotic mystery film based on the 1970 novel ''Helga's Web'' by Jon Cleary and starring Jack Thompson (actor), Jack Thompson and Judy Morris. It was reportedly the first movie to extensively feature the Sydney Opera House. Synopsis Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone (Jack Thompson (actor), Jack Thompson) and his offsider (Shane Porteous) investigate the murder of Helga (Judy Morris), whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House. Malone had met Helga previously and discovers she was a high class prostitute who was also a mistress of the Minister for Culture (James Workman) and involved with film director Jack Savannah (Joe Martin). In flashback it is shown that Helga was blackmailing the minister and his wife (Jacqueline Kott), along with a crime boss, Mr Sin (Noel Ferrier). Eventually it is revealed that Helga was killed while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home And Away
''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales, where he noticed locals were complaining about the construction of a foster home and against the idea of foster children from the city living in the area. The soap opera was initially going to be called ''Refuge'', but the name was changed to the "friendlier" title of ''Home and Away'' once production began. The show premiered in what Bateman classified as a ninety-minute telefeatureOram, James "Home and Away: Behind the Scenes" p. 45 Angus and Robertson, 1989 (subsequently in re-runs and on VHS titled as ''Home and Away: The Movie''), as opposed to a pilot. Since then, each subsequent episode has aired for a duration of twenty-two minutes. ''Home and Away'' has become the second longest-running drama series in Australian t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Country Practice
''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera/serial which was broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 22 November 1993, and subsequently on Network Ten from 13 April 1994 to 5 November 1994. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,088 episodes were produced. The show was produced at the ATN-7's production facility at Epping, New South Wales; Pitt Town and Oakville, suburbs on the outskirts of northwest Sydney, Australia, were used for most of the exterior filming, with the historic heritage-listed Clare House, built in 1838, serving as the location of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital. Many other fictional locations, including Dr. Terence Elliot's ( Shane Porteous) medical practice, Frank and Shirley Gilroy's house Brian Wenzel and Lorrae Desmond, the Wandin Valley Church and Burrigan High School were filmed in the Hawkesbury. Several of the regular cast members became popular celebrities as a result of their roles in the series. It also fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey (1976 TV Series)
''Bluey'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network in 1976. The series was a police drama from Crawford Productions, but was different from many of their previous series—''Homicide'', ''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''—in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the characters were not stock standard archetypes usually seen in police dramas. Stand-up comedian Lucky Grills was cast as the titular Detective Sergeant 'Bluey' Hills who, in contrast to the relatively straight detectives seen in Crawford's previous shows, was obese, drank heavily (even on duty), smoked heavily, visited local prostitutes, and would often enact physical violence on criminals. It premiered on Wednesday 21 July 1976 on ATN-7 in Sydney, as a 90-minute pilot episode, with the first 60-minute episode premiering on the following day, Thursday 22 July 1976. Bluey was later an essential Thursday viewing. Cast Main * Lucky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homicide (Australian TV Series)
''Homicide'' is an Australian television police procedural drama series broadcast on the Seven Network and produced by Crawford Productions. It was the television successor to Crawfords' radio series ''D24''. After self-financing the pilot episode, Hector Crawford shopped it around commercial networks for nearly a year, before a series was commissioned in 1964 by Melbourne HSV (TV station), HSV7 station manager Keith Cairns, although HSV's partner station in Sydney, ATN, initially refused to participate. Synopsis The series dealt with the fictional homicide squad of the Victoria Police, Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based directly on real cases, although the characters (including the detectives) were fictional. The program aired from 20 October 1964 to January 1977, a total of 12 years and 6 months), making Homicide the longest-running Australian weekly primetime drama in history, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Box (Australian TV Series)
''The Box'' is an Australian soap opera that ran on ATV (Australia), ATV-0 from 11 February 1974 until 11 October 1977 and on Network Ten, 0–10 Network affiliates around Australia. ''The Box'' was produced by Crawford Productions which at the time was having great success producing police drama series in Australia. ''The Box'' was Crawfords' first soap opera, and was launched to complement the enormous success of another adult soap opera ''Number 96 (TV series), Number 96''.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 91-92 It originated as ''The Dream Makers'', conceived by Ian Jones as a Crawford Productions series prior to the launch of ''Number 96''. After ''Number 96'' became a hit, ''The Dream Makers'' was revived as ''The Box'' to fill out an hour's time slot. Synopsis ''The Box'' was a drama set in a fictional Melbourne television station, called UCV Channel 12, and explored the workings of the company and the professional and personal lives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hall (TV Series)
''Ben Hall'' is a 1975 Australian TV series based on the bush ranger Ben Hall.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 74 It stars Jon Finch as Ben Hall, Evin Crowley as Biddy Hall, John Castle as bushranger Frank Gardiner, Brian Blain as Sir Frederick Pottinger, Jack Charles as Billy Dargin and John Orcsik as John Gilbert. Neil McCallum was the creator-producer and the series editor was Colin Free. It was a co-production between the ABC, BBC-TV, and 20th Century Fox. It was called the most ambitious drama production of the ABC with a budget of $1 million. The series was filmed in the Megalong Valley, New South Wales and in the suburb of Belrose. McCallum said "The series is not an accurate story of the life of Ben Hall. It is impossible in 13 one-hour programs to reconstruct a man's life over a period of ten years. What we have done is to be meticulous in reconstructing the period in which he lived so that the series represents, I think, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cousin From Fiji
''The Cousin from Fiji'' (1945) is a novel by Australian writer and artist Norman Lindsay. Story outline In the 1890s, 18-year-old Ella Belairs returns home to Ballarat, and her relatives the Domkins, after spending her childhood in Fiji. Critical reception The reviewer in ''The Argus'' found merit but also some shortcomings: "Each character is a visual image, plus an abstraction. They live in a void; you can't guess where they came from, how they got that way. Those still physically attractive are physical attraction and nothing else. All the others are symbolic grotesques. There isn't, of course, a single adult in the book. In literature, as in drawing, Mr Lindsay's art - beauties, wowsers, pirates, foul fiends, terrifying seniors - is a picture of the reveries of adolescence still in revolt against the taboos of the Victorian age." In ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', the reviewer found a lot to like about the book: "It is certain that Norman Lindsay will be accused of caricat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catwalk (Australian TV Series)
''Catwalk'' is a 1971 Australian TV series created by Tony Morphett. It was a spin-off of an episode of the TV series ''Dynasty''.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 108 Plot A spin off from the series ''Dynasty'', Catwalk focused on the daily lives of the staff of a women's fashion magazine, under the direction of flamboyant publisher Saxon Wells (John Forgeham). Cast * John Forgeham as Saxon Wells * Cornelia Frances as Cornelia Heyson * June Salter as Paula Healy * Cecily Polson as Miss Jenkins * John Wood as Ricky Novak * Christopher Cary as Harry Ellis * Pat Bishop as Peggy Ellis * Elli Maclure as Vicki Wilson * Jacki Weaver as Rock Wilson * Bill Hunter as Jim Griffin * Kerry McGuire as Kate Mackenzie * Michael Latimer as Tony Fielding * Margo Lee as Margeurite Sommers * Max Phipps as Jack Wilson * Jill Forster as Sandra Goodall * Diana Perryman as Mrs Wheeler * Peter Hanlon as Peter Wilson * James Condon as Ray Shannon * Judy McBurney as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What For Marianne?
''What for, Marianne?'' is a 1971 Australian television play that was the ABC's entry into the 1971 Prix Italia. It was filmed at Sydney University. Premise Marianne tries to break away from her parents and environment. Cast *Kate Sheil as Marianne Malden *Betty Lucas as Mrs Malden, mother *John Treneman as Mr Malden, father *Shane Porteous as Jon Wright *Rowena Wallace Rowena Wallace (born 23 August 1947) is an English-born Australian stage and screen actress, most especially in the genre of television soap opera. She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/ ... as Kate Styles *Anthony Wager as Van Walker *Stuart Finch *Don Reid Reception ''The Age'' said the direction "had the Fellini touch" although the story "did irritate a bit." References Australian television films 1970s Australian television plays 1971 television films 1971 films 1970s English-language films 1970s Australian films {{1970s-Australia-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
