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Megan Williams (actress)
Megan Mingyu Williams (11 September 195617 April 2000) was an Australian actress and singer, who played a continuing role as Alice Sullivan in the television drama ''The Sullivans'', and won a Logie Award for her work in ''Anzacs'' (1985). Early years Williams was born in London, England, to David and Chin Yu Williams who appeared in a West End production of ''South Pacific''. Her mother was described as " half-Chinese". At six months old, Williams had a minor TV role as an abandoned baby on ''The Adventures of Robin Hood''. Williams' family moved to Sydney, Australia, where she pursued an acting career. Career Actor Williams' first major role was as an ongoing lead, Ann Watson, in the daily soap opera ''Class of '74'' (1974). The long running role of Alice Watkins Sullivan in ''The Sullivans'' (1978-1982) followed. A guest role as Carol Canning in ''The Outsiders'' (1976) episode 10 "Charlie Cole Esq." (broadcast 1977) had her appearing in a bikini. After ''The Sullivans'' end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Don Lane Show
''The Don Lane Show'' was an Australian television talk show which aired twice a week on the Nine Network from 1975 to 1983. The show was created by Don Lane who co-hosted it with Bert Newton. Channel Nine was reluctant to cast Bert Newton, who had been associated with Graham Kennedy, but Lane insisted that he wanted Newton to do the show. Lane is quoted as saying: I used to watch him and Graham working on IMT, and look at them with great envy. So I said 'what about Bert Newton?' If I’m going to work with somebody I want to know that he's as sharp as anything and a real pro. The theme music of the show in its later years was "You Make It So Easy", written by Helen Reddy and Carole Bayer Sager and first recorded for Reddy's 1976 album '' Music, Music''. Legacy The show became one of the most popular talk shows in Australian television history. Its broadcast time-slot varied in its early years, including a brief stint in 1980 when it ran four nights a week, but eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mike Walsh Show
''The Mike Walsh Show'' was an Australian variety daytime television series. Hosted by Mike Walsh. History An early version of ''The Mike Walsh Show'' was a Thursday night variety show broadcast on HSV-7, Melbourne, from August 14, 1969. It was revamped to an interview-based format and extended its coverage to ATN-7, Sydney, from 18 March 1971. The program aired for the last time on 8 July 1971. In February 1973, the Screen Gems company and the 0-10 Network launched ''The Mike Walsh Show'', produced at TEN-10, Sydney, as a daytime program, airing Monday to Friday in the early afternoons. In late 1976, Walsh announced that he was taking the show across to the Nine Network, with the first show from TCN-9, Sydney, on 7 February 1977 and airing in the midday timeslot. At the Nine Network, ''The Mike Walsh Show'' increased its coverage to include almost every capital city and regional market in Australia. Description The program featured the latest in music, film, fashion, gos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All At Sea (1977 Film)
All at Sea may refer to: Film * ''All at Sea'' (1929 film), an American film starring Karl Dane * ''All at Sea'' (1933 film), an American short film starring Ethel Barrymore * ''All at Sea'', a 1933 short film with Charlie Chaplin * ''All at Sea'' (1935 film), a British film starring Googie Withers * ''All at Sea'' (1940 film), a British film starring Sandy Powell * ''All at Sea'' (1977 film), an Australian TV movie * ''All at Sea'' (2011 film), an Italian film starring Gigi Proietti * An alternative name for the 1957 British film '' Barnacle Bill'', starring Alec Guinness * An alternative name for the 2010 Norwegian film '' Wide Blue Yonder'', starring Brian Cox Television * ''All at Sea'' (TV series), a British television series set in a B&B * '' Timothy Spall: All at Sea'', a British TV series following his journey "round the British Isles" in a barge * "All at Sea", a ''Thomas and Friends'' season 3 episode Other uses * All at Sea (ruleset), a naval ruleset for the Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Kennedy's Blankety Blanks
''Blankety Blanks'' is an Australian game show based on the American game show ''Match Game''. It was hosted by Graham Kennedy on the 0-10 Network from 1977–1978. ''Blankety Blanks'' had a two-season run from 1977 to 1978. It was screened at a rate of five, thirty-minute episodes each week, stripped across an early evening timeslot. In Sydney and Melbourne, it was broadcast in the 7pm timeslot across both seasons. It was a ratings success, beating the flagship current affairs programs '' Willesee At Seven'' on the Seven Network and ''A Current Affair'' on the Nine Network, and on occasions achieving ratings in the low 40s. It was only after this ratings success that Network Ten revealed Kennedy was paid an unprecedented $1 million per season. In 1978, Kennedy won a TV Week Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. When Kennedy had a bout with pneumonia, announcer Don Blake was forced to host the show for an episode. Gameplay Two contestants, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outsiders (Australian TV Series)
''The Outsiders'' was the name of an Australian-West German co-production which was made in Australia in 1976. It starred Andrew Keir as Charlie Cole and German actor Sascha Hehn as Pete Jarrett. It also featured other prominent Australian actors including John Jarratt, Wendy Hughes, Leonard Teale, Ray Barrett, Peter Cummins, John Meillon, Megan Williams, John Ewart, Judy Morris, Vincent Ball, Terence Donovan, Serge Lazareff, Peta Toppano, David Gulpilil and Roger Ward. The series was shot in English and Sascha Hehn was dubbed by Australian actor Andrew Harwood. (For the German TV version he dubbed himself.) Plot Charlie Cole and his grandson Pete Jarrett travel around outback Australia in a beaten-up ute, finding itinerant work along the way. In each place they befriend locals and become involved in an adventure, culminating in their solving a mystery, crime or local conflict. Cast Main * Andrew Keir Andrew Keir (né Buggy, 3 April 19265 October 1997) was a Scotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division 4
''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series broadcast by the Nine Network and created by Crawford Productions airing between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes. Synopsis The series was one of the first to follow up on the enormous success of the earlier Crawford Productions drama ''Homicide'' and dealt with the wide variety of cases investigated by police in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Yarra Central (modelled on St Kilda but with many features in common with Port Melbourne and South Melbourne). Initial publicity suggested that the 'emphasis throughout is on realism'. ''Division 4'' was more concerned with character motivation than ''Homicide''. The first episode included a human interest story for Frank Banner, played by Gerard Kennedy, whose pregnant wife Joy (played by Kate McKittrick) dies in part due to harassment from criminals pursuing a vendetta against him. This situation was recalled in Episode 20, 'The Threat', and in other early episodes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Class Of '75
''Class of '74'' (and subsequently ''Class of '75'') was a soap opera that screened on the Seven Network in Australia and produced by Reg Grundy Organisation, with Peter Maxwell as EP and sometime director, the series was created by John Edwards, a former employee of Crawford Productions and devised by Alan Coleman and broadcast in black-and-white starting March 1974. Marist Singers of Eastwood provided back-up singing for the school choir. The series was set at a fictional secondary school called a ''Waratah High School'' with it's characters being a mix of teachers, staff and students. The series was aimed at a teenage audience. Running for 290 x 30 minutes episodes; five episodes each week were broadcast, stripped across week nights in an early evening 7pm timeslot. The series was renamed ''Class of '75'' for its second and final year. Although originally produced in black and white, it switched to colour broadcasting during its second year of production.Albert Moran, ''Mora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmare Man (1999 Film)
The Nightmare Man may refer to: * The Nightmare Man (TV series), a 1981 science fiction drama serial * The Nightmare Man (The Sarah Jane Adventures), a two-part story of The Sarah Jane Adventures * Nightmare Man (film), a 2006 horror film {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dido & Aeneas
''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest's girls' school in London by the end of 1689. Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, ''Dido and Aeneas'' is remembered as one of Purcell's foremost theatrical works. It was also Purcell's only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. One of the earliest known English operas, it owes much to John Blow's '' Venus and Adonis'', both in structure and in overall effect. The influence of Cavalli's opera '' Didone'' is also apparent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon English
Jonathan James English (26 March 1949 – 9 March 2016) was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with his parents in 1961. He was an early vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Sebastian Hardie but left to take on the role of Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the Musical theatre, stage musical ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' from May 1972, which was broadcast on television. English was also a solo singer; his Australian top twenty hit singles include "Turn the Page (Bob Seger song), Turn the Page", "Hollywood Seven (song), Hollywood Seven", "Words are Not Enough", "Six Ribbons" and "Hot Town (Jon English song), Hot Town". NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. Jon English entry For his starring role in the 1978 Australian TV series ''Against the Wind (TV series), Against the Wind'' he won the ''TV Week'' Logie Award for 'Best New Talent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
