Amazing Australian Television

Australian television officially kicked off on 16 september 1956 when the words 'welcome to televison' were broadcast, followed for the next few decades by mainly American shows. Colour TV was introduced in 1975.
The airwaves are now taken up mostly by commercial networks like Seven, Nine and Ten but fortunately there is also the ABC and the SBS with arty movies and news and programs in languages other than English for migrants.
These are the main television channels generally available in most of Australia;

Since 1995 there is also a choice of Pay-TV subscription channels like Foxtel and Austar

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This was a very entertaining bit of TV:

Some of the Australian made TV shows include;

A Country Practice

Soap opera about the daily medical and private emotional dramas in a town called Wandin Valley. Ran from 1981 until 1993.

Bananas In Pyjamas

Childrens TV show around two characters named B1 and B2 that turned into a lucrative export for the ABC.

Flying Doctors

Quite realistic show about medical emergencies in outback areas and theprivate lives of the Flying Doctor's staff living in the fictitious town of Cooper's Crossing. About the same principle as A Country Practice but more good outdoor shots giving the international audience a taste for travel to Australia.

Neighbours

Started in 1985 and grew so popular that now 45 million people around the world ( of which 11 million in the U.K.) watch the daily goings on in Ramsay St., Erinsborough, a non-existing Melbourne suburb. Some of the actors progressed from this series into other careers like Kylie Minogue, Kimberley Davies and Jason Donovan.

Pizza

Show aired by SBS in 2002 and 2003 about the lives and adventures of some Lebanese pizza delivery boys in Sydney. Chaos usually reigned and a good mix of drugs, sex, violence, swearing, humour and making fun of various ethnic minorities by guys that were from ethnic minorities themselves made this show quite entertaining.

Skippy

Though this series only ran for three years and finished in 1971 Skippy is still world famous. The series showed the adventures and mishaps in the life of a park ranger and his family but there was always a happy ending as Skippy would save the day and a few lives at the end of every show.

Water rats

This page is far from complete, as our webmaster does not have much time to watch TV.
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