Waterloo Station is an Australia

Australia

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n television

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 series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation

Reg Grundy Organisation

The Reg Grundy Organisation was an Australian television production company founded in 1959 by businessman Reg Grundy . It has since branched out into Europe and the USA. The company first produced game shows, before branching into soap operas in 1973...

 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...

 in 1983.

The cast included Ron Graham

Ron Graham (actor)

Ron Graham Ron Graham Ron Graham (17 December 1926 Aldershot, England, UK is an Australian actor who has appeared in many television roles.Ron is the father of actor Marcus Graham.-External links:...

, Sally Tayler

Sally Tayler

Sally Tayler is an Australian actress known for several ongoing roles in Australian soap operas.She played the key role of Dr. Vicki Daniels in The Young Doctors in 1982–1983. After that series ended she starred in the ill-fated soap opera Waterloo Station...

, Danny Roberts, John Bonney, Jenny Ludlam

Jenny Ludlam

Jenny Ludlam is a New Zealand-born actress, who remains best known for her roles in Australian television.She was a regular cast member in the short-lived soap opera Waterloo Station followed by guest stints on Prisoner and Sons and Daughters .-External links:...

, Bartholomew John

Bartholomew John

Bartholomew John is an actor best known for his roles on television.He played Dr. Chris Piper in the Australian soap opera The Young Doctors from 1977 to 1979 followed by appearances in Skyways and Waterloo Station. More recent credits include: Murder Call, All Saints and Always Greener...

, Steven Grives and Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke (actor)

Andrew Clarke in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, is an Australian actor most known for his television work. Andrew Clarke was one of the most popular Australian actors in the 1980s and 1990s. He is also a two-time Logie winner.-Career:...

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Waterloo Station was an attempt by Grundy's to reproduce for Channel Nine the success of their earlier shows The Restless Years

The Restless Years

The Restless Years is an Australian soap opera which followed the lives of several Sydney school-leavers and young adults. It was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for Network Ten. It debuted December 1977 and ran until late 1981. It was not renewed by the network due to declining ratings...

and The Young Doctors

The Young Doctors

The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March...

which focused on youth situations. And like Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford; the present incarnation of the company, Crawfords Australia, is now a subsidiary of the WIN television corporation.-History:...

' successful police series Cop Shop

Cop Shop

Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....

, Waterloo Station combined police procedural

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 and domestic storylines involving the police personnel and their families.

Waterloo Station focused on two sisters, both married to policemen, and their adult children starting careers in the police force. The main locations were a police station, a police training academy in Sydney

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, and a large boarding house that provided accommodation for several characters.

The series was programmed against the popular new series Carson's Law

Carson's Law

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in key markets including Melbourne, and achieved only mediocre ratings. It was cancelled after 52 episodes. Andrew Clarke, Danny Roberts and Sally Tayler all subsequently found greater success as regular cast members of another Grundy produced soap opera, Sons and Daughters

Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series)

Sons and Daughters was a Logie Award winning Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation between 1981 and 1987. The first episode aired in December 1981, during the Christmas/New Year non-ratings period, and the official broadcast date of the final...

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A few months after Waterloo Station Grundy launched Starting Out

Starting Out

Starting Out is an Australian television soap opera made for the Nine Network by the Reg Grundy Organisation in 1983.The series was the network's replacement for The Young Doctors and was set at a medical college with an emphasis on young people getting their first experience of living away from...

which featured youthful characters attempting to enter the medical profession. This series was similarly short-lived.