Motel (TV series)
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Motel was an Australia
n television
soap opera
made by ATN
-7 in 1968.
The series was screened in a daytime slot and was an attempt at an Australian version of the British
serial Crossroads. Motel dealt with the Gillian family, who ran the Greenfields Motel.
The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 132 episodes .
Cast members of the series included Jill Forster
, Jack Thompson
, Ross Higgins
, Enid Lorimer. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson
.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
made by ATN
ATN
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-7 in 1968.
The series was screened in a daytime slot and was an attempt at an Australian version of the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
serial Crossroads. Motel dealt with the Gillian family, who ran the Greenfields Motel.
The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 132 episodes .
Cast members of the series included Jill Forster
Jill Forster
-Career:Fortster has been in numerous Australian television dramas including Motel, Number 96, The Box, The Restless Years, Starting Out, Prisoner, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion and SeaChange...
, Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson (actor)
Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society...
, Ross Higgins
Ross Higgins
Ross Higgins is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Ted Bulpitt in the television situation comedy series Kingswood Country....
, Enid Lorimer. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson
Creswick Jenkinson
Creswick Jenkinson was an Australian writer, producer and director. As a screenwriter, he wrote the film Captain Thunderbolt as well as episodes of the TV series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Autumn Affair and Motel....
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