Pacific Drive
Encyclopedia
Pacific Drive is an Australia
n television series
made by Village Roadshow in association with New World International
for the Nine Network
between 1996 and 1997.
The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera
and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast
. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American
series Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian
love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation. The show was purchased by the then new tv station, Sky 2 and paired with Melrose Place. The show did not rate very well and when the tv station itself began to flounder, they moved all their high profile shows back to Sky 1
, the show was put onto double showings Friday and Saturdays and ended its run just before the station closed.
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 series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
made by Village Roadshow in association with New World International
New World Communications
New World Pictures was an independent motion picture and television production company, and later television station owner in the United States from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s...
for the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
between 1996 and 1997.
The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic 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,...
and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
series Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation. The show was purchased by the then new tv station, Sky 2 and paired with Melrose Place. The show did not rate very well and when the tv station itself began to flounder, they moved all their high profile shows back to Sky 1
SKY 1
The Box is an entertainment channel in New Zealand available on SKY Network Television.The channel shows are a variety of the most recent shows such as from the United States, for example CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Simpsons, Family Guy, World Wrestling Entertainments hit shows, and...
, the show was put onto double showings Friday and Saturdays and ended its run just before the station closed.
Cast
- Garth Stephens - Grant BowlerGrant BowlerGrant Bowler is a New Zealand actor who has worked in American, Australian and New Zealand films and television.He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne Patterson in Blue Heelers and also appeared as Wilhelmina Slater's love interest Connor Owens in Ugly Betty.In November 2010, he was...
- Laura Harris/Anna - Simone BuchananSimone BuchananSimone Louise Buchanan is an Australian actress best known for her television roles as Debbie Kelly in the situation comedy Hey Dad..! and Samantha Fitzgerald in the soap opera Neighbours....
- Adam Stephens - Mark Constable
- Dior Shelby - Clodagh Crowe
- Rick Carlyle - Andre EikmeierAndre EikmeierAndre Eikmeier is an Australian actor and wine entrepreneur.Eikmeier started his career in TV at age 9 on the Australian drama A Country Practice, however he is probably best known to Australian audiences as the womanising Rick Carlyle in the drama series Pacific Drive and as a centaur in the...
- Liza Garland - Rebekah ElmaloglouRebekah ElmaloglouRebekah Elmaloglou is an Australian actress who is best known for portraying the role of Sophie Simpson on the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away from 1989 to 1993 and again on a recurring basis from 2002 to 2005...
- Mara de Villenois - Olivia HamnettOlivia HamnettOlivia Hamnett was a Manchester-born actress who found success after emigrating to Australia in the early 1970s. In the UK Hamnett had guest roles in such television programs as Department S and Randall and Hopkirk in 1969.She continued to act after moving to Australia, appearing in films and in...
/Rowena WallaceRowena WallaceRowena Wallace is a Gold -Logie winning Australian actress, best known for her role as Patricia in Sons and Daughters.-Early life and budding career:... - Luke Bowman - Steve J. Harman
- Margaux Hayes - Virginia HeyVirginia HeyVirginia Hey is an Australian actress, known for her role as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan on the science fiction TV series Farscape....
- Tim Browning - Darrin Klimek
- Dr. Josh Michaels - Peter KowitzPeter KowitzPeter Kowitz is an Australian actor.His television credits include: Prime Time, Richmond Hill, Chances, Pacific Drive, Water Rats, Wildside, Farscape, Murder Call, Grass Roots, All Saints and Supernova....
- Joel Ritchie - Adrian Lee
- Martin Harris - Joss McWilliam
- Trey Devlin - Lloyd Morris
- Georgina Ellis - Kate RaisonKate RaisonKate Raison is an Australian actress, best known for her roles on television, including Cathy Hayden in A Country Practice, Sheridan Sturgess in E Street and Georgina Ellis in Pacific Drive....
- Callie Macrae - Danielle SpencerDanielle SpencerDanielle Spencer may refer to:*Danielle Spencer , African-American performer who has been acting since early childhood; at age 11 became familiar to TV audiences as sarcastic Dee Thomas on 1976–79 ABC sitcom What's Happening!!*Danielle Spencer , songwriter and recording artist who, during 1990s...
- Amber Kingsley - Christine Stephen-DalyChristine Stephen-DalyChristine Stephen-Daly is an Australian television actress.Christine grew up in Melbourne with her father Paul, an entrepreneur who was the originator of the world's first travelling tram restaurant in Melbourne in 1993; mother Rhonnda, a housewife; and three sisters Louise, Laura, and...
- Zac Kingsley - Daryn Sibley
- Zoe Marshall - Libby TannerLibby Tanner-Career:Tanner played Zoe Marshall in the short lived Channel 9 soap Pacific Drive from 1996 to 1997. Having appeared in the hospital drama All Saints playing Bronwyn Craig for five years, a role for which she won two Logie Awards, she left to star in the short lived television series Fireflies,...
- Brett Barrett - Erik ThomsonErik ThomsonErik Thomson is an actor known for playing Hades in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Dr. Mitch Stevens in All Saints and Dave Rafter in Packed to the Rafters...
- Bethany Daniels - Melissa TkautzMelissa TkautzMelissa Natalie Tkautz is an Australian-Maltese actress, singer, songwriter and model of Austrian and Maltese heritage. Tkautz was married on Friday 6 February 2009 to her partner of 5 years, Kwesi Nicholas.- Early career :...