Videoteca

Because He's My Friend 1978
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their developmentally disabled son.

Barnaby and Me 1977 star_border 4.8
Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.

The Quatermass Experiment 1967
"The Quatermass Experiment" was a 1967 Australian teleplay based on a novel by Nigel Kneale - "The Quatermass Experiment".

The Interpretaris 1966
An evil scientist, Parta Beno, who has been found guilty of imprisoning and reducing in size inhabitants of various planets. As punishment he is exiled to a remote asteroid, with the only amenities being a crude laboratory. All the specimens that Parta Beno collected were sent back to their home worlds by the World Council, except those few that the Council had no knowledge of, let alone any idea about the planets from whence they came. The hand-picked crew of 'The Interpretaris' were given the mission of returning these aliens to their home planets.

Macbeth 1965
Another take on the 1960 version, with a different production team and some of the same cast.

The Big Killing 1965
Peter Ashbury is a young man who lives on Palm Beach, Sydney, with an expensive wife Mary and house he cannot afford. Their neighbours and close friends are Liz and Charles Barcher. He makes a £25,000 bet to murder Liz, the wife of the wealthy Charles. When the wife dies, blame attaches to Peter and then to his wife Mary.

I Have Been Here Before 1964
A German professor un-nerves the residents when he claims to have been in a small Yorkshire moors inn sometime previously.

The Tell-Tale Heart 1961
A ballet based on the Edgar Allen Poe story. A woman murders an old man and is haunted by the sound of his heart.

Macbeth 1960
Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.

Antony and Cleopatra 1959
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor - Octavius.

Touch the Sun 1988
Touch the Sun was a television series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Northern Territory, but only six were completed. Executive producer was Patricia Edgar in association with the ABC and production company Revcom.

Mother and Son 1984 star_border 7.5
Mother and Son was a multiple Logie Award-winning Australian television sitcom produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris. It was created and written by Geoffrey Atherden AM. Its classic theme song features the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, playing to I Want a Girl, a jazz standard which was recorded by Al Jolson in the 1920s.

Lucinda Brayford 1980
Based on the novel by Martin Boyd (1946) this miniseries tells the story of many generations of a family who migrate from England to Australia and eventually back to England, suffering poverty and becoming social climbers. The family's social ambitions lead to conflicts between Lucinda and her parents over the attentions of Tony Duff. She therefore marries wealthy Englishman Hugo Brayford and moves to England with him. A series of failures and adulterous episodes in England lead to her experience of "geographical schizophrenia" and personality disintegration.

Parkinson In Australia 1979 star_border 6
Australian version of Michael Parkinson's UK talk show. He interviews a broad range of famous Australians, and in later series, international stars.

The Great War 1964 star_border 7.9
A milestone 26-part history of the First World War, conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of its outbreak.