BAYWATCH/NBC/1989-90/SYN/1991-2001
**(Jaason Simmons) Logan Fowler, a brash and
very handsome blond Australian who had moved from down under to Los
Angeles, California. He joined the Baywatch lifeguard team in the fall of
1994. During the 1999 season under the new series title BAYWATCH HAWAII
Simmone MacKinnon appeared as Allie Reese, a native Australian who came to
Hawaii in her late 20s to work at the newly established international
lifeguard organization. Allie grew up in Sydney, Australia. She is
fascinated with the maritime history of Hawaii and enjoys hunting for
shipwrecks and treasure.. Allie works part-time job flying helicopter
tours and volunteers to work the city beaches where she can get close to
the locals. Simmone Mackinnon’s character of Allie Reese first appeared
during the two-part 1998-99 season finale that filmed in Australia.
DOLPHIN COVE/CBS/1989
**(Ernie Dingo) James "Didge" Desmonde, an
aboriginal native who assisted the Larsons, an American family doing
dolphin research along the Australia coast. The dolphin research
(man-to-dolphin communication) was financed by wealthy Australian
industrialist Baron Trent (played by Nick Tate).
FACTS
OF LIFE/NBC/1979-88
**(Sherrie Krenn) Pippa McKenna, a young
exchange student from Sydney, Australia introduced into this all-female
situation comedy during the 1987 season.
FRIENDS/NBC/1994-2004
**(Elle McPherson) Janine Lacroix, a sexy
Australian dancer who moved into Joey Tribianni’s Greenwich Village
apartment after his former roommate Chandler Bing moved out to live across
the hall with girlfriend Monica Geller. Janine is so attractive and Joey
is such a flirt, that their living arrangements became sexually awkward
until Janine told Joey she wasn‘t interested in him.
GOING
TO EXTREMES/ABC/1992-93
**(Camilo Gallardo) Kim Selby, Australian
student attending the Croft University Medical School on the Caribbean
island of Jantigue.
THE
HELEN REDDY SHOW/NBC/1973
*(Helen Reddy) Helen Reddy, an Australian born
singer who hosted this summer replacement variety show. Helen is famous
for her hit song "I Am Woman (hear me roar)."
THE
HIGHWAYMAN/NBC/1988
*(Jacko/costar) Jetto, muscular in-your-face
Australian sidekick of an American agent known as the Highwayman who
drives a high-tech twelve-ton eighteen-wheeler black Mack truck that
tracks down criminals for the U.S. Government.
LIVE-IN/CBS/1989
*(Lisa Patrick) Lisa Wells, a young, blonde and
extremely attractive Australian woman who was the live-in babysitter for a
working couple with two teenage sons and a new baby daughter. Lisa
originally lived on a sheep station in the Outback before being hired by
this New Jersey family living near New York City. Their frisky teenage son
was always trying to get "Down Under" with Lisa.
OPEN
HOUSE/FOX/1989-90
**(Nick Tate) Roger McSwain, a bossie Australian
who owned Juan Verde Real Estate Office in Los Angeles.
PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H/SYN/1980
*(Peita Toppano) Karen Angela Travers, Aussie
teacher (she killed her husband) imprisoned at the Wentworth Detention
Center in Melbourne, Australia. Her fellow inmates include Kerry Armstrong
as Lynette Jane Warner (falsely convicted of kidnapping); Val Lehman as
Bea Alice Smith (convicted of murdering her husband); Carol Burns as
Frieda “Franky” Joan Doyle (convicted of armed robbery and murder);
Collette Mann as Doreen May “Debby Raye” Anderson (convicted of breaking
and entering); Margaret Laurance as Marilyn Anne Mason (jailed for
soliciting); Mary Ward as Jennie “Mum” Brooks (sentenced to life for
killing her husband); and Sheila Florance as Elizabeth Josephine
Birdsworth (convicted of mass murder). The prison staff included Patsy
King as prison governor Erica Davidson; Elspeth Ballantyne as prison guard
Meg Jackson, Fiona Spence as prison guard Vera Bennett; and Don Baker as
prison psychiatrist Bill Jackson.
ROUND
THE TWIST/SYN/1989-92
*(Joelene Crongorac & Tamsin West/costar) Linda
Twist, 13 year-old Australian teenager who lives in a lighthouse on the
coast with her twin brother Peter (Sam Vandenberg & Ben Thomas). Other
cast included Rodney McLennan & Jeffrey Walker as their eight-year-old
brother; and Richard Moir as their father, Mr. Twist. This 26 part
fantasy, comedy series was produced by Australian Children's Television
Foundation.
SNOWY
RIVER: THE MCGREGOR SAGA/FAM/1993-96
*(Andrew Clarke) Matt McGregor, head of the
McGregor clan, Scottish immigrants who settled the Australian frontier of
the late 1800s. Living on the sprawling Langara ranch, family members
included Joshua Lucas as Luke McGregor; Brett Climo as Colin McGregor; Guy
Pearce as Rob McGregor; Jolene Crnogorac as Danni McGregor and Sheryl
Munks as Emily McGregor. The McGregor's nemesis was the Blackwood family
who owned a nearby ranch. The series is based on A. B. "Banjo" Paterson's
ballad "The Man from Snowy River" and the movies The Man from Snowy
River (1982) and Return to Snowy River (1988) aka The Man
from Snowy River II (1988). The series was filmed in Australia's Snowy
River mountains.
STAR
COPS/SYN/1991
*(Linda Newton/costar) Pal Kenzey, only
Australian police inspector (from an all-British team) stationed on a moon
colony in the twenty-first century at Moonbase One as part of an E. S. L.
(European Space Liaison) police force called Star Cops.
TRACY
GOES ON/HBO/1996-99
*(Tracy Ullman) Rayleen Gibson, a coarse
35-year-old Australian stuntwoman, married to a little person (Mitch) and
one of many characters created by white British comedian and impressionist
Tracy Ullman.
WHIPLASH/SYN/1961
**(Anthony Wickert) Dan, frontier sidekick of
American stagecoach driver Chris Cobb, who owned and operated the Cobb and
Company Stage Coachline, one of Australia’s first stage routes established
in the 1850s.
WOMEN
IN PRISON/FOX/1987-88
**(Antoinette Byron) Bonnie Harper, an
attractive lesbian prostitute from Australia who was jailed at Bass
Women's prison in America on this tongue-in-cheek look at prison life.
