All television programs
274 titles - sorted alphabetically / by year
For over 50 years television has been providing our main source of information and entertainment, shaping the way the country sees itself.
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1915 (1982)
Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) are mates. They’re young men from the bush always on the lookout for action and adventure. Walter is ...
The 7.30 Report - Orchestra Tunes Into Mentor Program (2005)
This edition of The 7.30 Report begins with an update from the ABC’s Indonesia correspondent, Tim Palmer, reporting from Aceh where he’s been on many ...
The 7.30 Report – Boys Education (2005)
A current affairs program beginning and ending with death. The program covers the death of Pope John Paul II as well as the return of ...
The 7.30 Report – Pneumococcal Vaccine (2003)
This is a good example of an effective 7.30 Report episode. The program begins with a news story from Iraq where seven weeks after the ...
The 7.30 Report – Tobacco Litigation (2003)
This edition of the ABC’s prime-time current affairs program begins with an update on the war in Iraq where the two sons of former dictator ...
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An Airman Remembers (1964)
Sir Gordon Taylor, one of the great aviation pioneers of Australia, presents this documentary. He delivers his story about the history of Australian aviation in ...
The Alice (2004)
'Action and adventure meet magic and romance in Alice Springs’, say the publicity notes for this telemovie, and it’s not a lie. A disparate group ...
All the Rivers Run (1983)
This is a four-part mini-series filmed on 16mm, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Nancy Cato. In the dark pre-dawn a ...
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (1972)
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table is a comical, Australian-made animation series based on the English legend of King Arthur. Episode 35 ...
At The Movies – Series 1 Episode 55, Little Fish (2005)
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review the latest cinema releases including The Perfect Catch and Wallace and Grommit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. There’s ...
At The Movies – Series 1 Episode 63, Wolf Creek (2005)
This week Margaret and David discuss the Australian film Wolf Creek with accompanying interviews with the director Greg McLean and actor Cassandra Magrath. There’s also ...
At The Movies – Series 2 Episode 20, Ten Canoes (2006)
The man of steel is back in Superman Returns, the first film to be reviewed this week on the television magazine program presented by Margaret ...
The Aunty Jack Show – Series One (1972)
Sketch comedy interlaced with musical sequences, featuring Aunty Jack (Grahame Bond) the self-styled queen of Wollongong and a cast of glorious misfits including Thin Arthur ...
The Aunty Jack Show – Series Two (1974)
In this second series of the sketch comedy show most of the old favourites return from the first series. These include Neil and Errol (Grahame ...
Australian Story – A Man for All Seasons (1999)
Wayne Bennett was born on the wrong side of the tracks. His father was a violent and hard drinking fettler, who left his wife and ...
Australian Story – Absolute Beginner (2006)
Just over eight years ago, Marg Ward lost her husband when he died suddenly of a heart attack. Marg was 56. After two terrible years, ...
Australian Story – Of Droughts and Flooding Rains (2002)
This is the story of a man so obsessed by an idea that it has consumed his life and almost destroyed his family. Peter Andrews’s ...
Australian Story – Since Adam Was a Boy (1997)
Adam Sutton is a quintessential cowboy. He’s fearless, fun-loving and homosexual. He’s a horse wrangler and rodeo rider but the biggest risk he ever took ...
Australian Story – With This Ring (2005)
When Australian Story first recorded the life of this gutsy young couple, Gayle and Mac Shann were newly married and struggling to come to terms ...
Australian Visit (1967)
This ABC News production covers the five-day visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Air Vice-Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, and his wife, ...
Australian Walkabout (1958)
In this program the Chauvels, on a filmmaking safari of Australia, are travelling through the Northern Territory. They camp outside the small town of Katherine ...
Australians at War – The Thin Khaki Line (2002)
During the Second World War, the outlook for Australia in 1942 was grim. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbour, only a ragtag group of ...
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Backchat, Episode 215 (1988)
On this week’s Backchat, viewers write in with praise for ABC current affairs programs The World At Six and The World Tonight, programs that copped ...
Backchat, Episode 216 (1988)
On Backchat, viewers of ABC television and ABC radio listeners could write or phone in their response to the weekly output of the public broadcaster, ...
Backchat, Episode 217 (1988)
In this program of audience response to ABC programs on television and radio, there’s appreciation for the ABC fillers, which can be seen behind the ...
Bambaloo – Bird in a Boat (2002)
Bambaloo is a mixed live-action, puppetry and animation narrative based show for preschoolers. Characters in the world of Bambaloo include the imaginative and playful host ...
Bananas in Pyjamas – Banana Breakfast (1999)
In this story, narrated by Karina Kelly, Bananas in Pyjamas B1 (Ken Radley) and B2 (Nicholas Opolski) decide to make a surprise breakfast for the ...
Beyond 2000 – Episode 152 (1989)
A magazine-style program featuring the latest in technology and medical breakthroughs from around the world, with Iain Finlay as the overall presenter. In this program, ...
Beyond 2000 – Episode 287 (1992)
This magazine-style program examines the research and innovation happening around the world that will change our lives beyond the year 2000.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – Alexander McLeod Lindsey (1977)
In 1964 Alexander McLeod Lindsey was sentenced to 18 years in jail for the brutal bashing of his wife Pamela, who recovered but was severely ...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt – The Case of Ronald Ryan (1977)
Ronald Ryan, a convicted armed robber, was the last man to be hanged in Australia. The year was 1967. It was alleged he’d shot a ...
Beyond Tomorrow – Episode 39 (2006)
From building your own super car to the bus that drives itself and the most advanced robot in the world, this fast and furious program ...
Beyond Tomorrow – Episode 51 (2006)
A fast-paced magazine-style program that explains tomorrow, today. This episode shows a device that can be inserted into your brain to prevent depression and a ...
A Big Country – City Girls (1983)
A group of students from an exclusive girls’ school in Melbourne hike through the Bogong High Plains of Victoria’s Alpine National Park. With them is ...
A Big Country – Gulf Battlers (1982)
Elton and Maude are making a go of a cattle station in the Gulf country of northern Australia. It’s a tough life in an era ...
A Big Country – On the Hook (1976)
In the mid-1970s, when this program was made, the waterside workers were in well paid, full-time jobs. Few viewers would have known of their traumatic ...
A Big Country – Peninsula People (1968)
Peninsula People was the seventh A Big Country program to be broadcast and was filmed in black-and-white. It presents in magazine format the lives of ...
A Big Country – Perkins Navy (1979)
Bruce Perkins owns a fleet of flat-bottomed barges that help the people of northern Australia to inhabit some of the least accessible areas of the ...
A Big Country – The Challenge of Lake Eyre (1978)
Lake Eyre is generally a massive environment of death or rather lifelessness, and every year for several months, John and Roma Dulhunty come to the ...
A Big Country – The Darcys of Mallapunyah (1981)
The Darcys have one of the last family owned and operated cattle stations in the Northern Territory. Their vast family ensures a constant supply of ...
A Big Country – The Drover (1981)
Jack Tawney has been a drover most of his life. He left school at age 13 and has been moving sheep along the ‘long paddock’ ...
A Big Country – The Prices (1979)
A pioneering family has taken over a cattle station at Cape York and is trying to make a go of it.
A Big Country – The White Rose (1979)
Frank Bourke is ‘The White Rose’ – the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales.
Billy and Percy (1974)
This dramatised documentary is based on the diaries of Percy Deane, who became the private secretary of Prime Minister WM Hughes during one of the ...
Black Beauty (1978)
In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as ...
The Blainey View – Footprints (1982)
Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey takes us from the southernmost reaches of Tasmania to the edge of the continent in the Northern Territory to tell the ...
Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (1992)
This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up ...
Blue Heelers – A Woman’s Place (1993)
Fresh from police training, Constable Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) arrives to take up her new post in the country town of Mount Thomas, where the ...
Blue Water High – Winners and Losers (2005)
Six lucky Australian teenage surfers have fought hard to win a place in an intensive, 12-month residential surfing and schooling program at Solar Blue Surf ...
Bodyline (1984)
In the summer of 1932-33, three men of Empire – the brilliant young Australian batsman Donald Bradman (Gary Sweet), the gentleman English captain Douglas Jardine ...
