
Ken Goodlet
Actor · 1921 – 2006 · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Movies24
Movie6.6MysteryCrimeOne of the final entries in the series of romantic suspense adventures takes Jennifer and Jonathan Hart off to Sydney, Australia, where they plan to purchase a wildlife reserve from Jennifer’s old flame, the handsome and mysterious Elliott Manning.Manning challenges Jonathan, and their old rivalry is rekindled, with Hart besting Manning every time. When Manning begins to behave strangely toward Jennifer, a series of disturbing events reveals that this rivalry is no longer so good-natured, and the Harts find themselves bait in a trap.
Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season
1996 · 9 votes
Movie6.6DramaWarAfter a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
The Highest Honour
1982 · 5 votes
Movie4.8DramaActionUnable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
Ned Kelly
1970 · 28 votes
Movie5.8Science FictionTV MovieIn a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their quest for sanctuary.
Doom Runners
1997 · 5 votes
MovieThree 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.
Macbeth
1960
- Movie7.0Drama
A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major hospital.
Hospitals Don't Burn Down
1978 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ActionComedyA school teacher quits her job and starts a new life for herself as a truck driver
Queen of the Road
1984 · 3 votes
Movie5.1HistoryAdventureA story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Burke & Wills
1985 · 9 votes
Movie5.6FamilyThe adventures of Calamity the cow, who is bought by a farmer for his children, stolen by rustlers, and eventually wins a prize for her part in ridding the area of a gang of cattle thieves.
Calamity the Cow
1967 · 4 votes
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A live television play set in Italy, about a man who falls in love with the wife of a gangster. Broadcast live in Melbourne on 22 April 1959. A kinescope ("telerecording") was made of the broadcast and shown in Sydney on 6 May 1959.
Movie4.8ComedyComedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.
The Journalist
1979 · 4 votes
Movie4.3DramaTV MovieUnmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.
The Alternative
1977 · 3 votes
Movie5.4ThrillerCrimeAn insurance investigator comes to a small town to investigate the death of a man insured by his company. The local residents believe his death was caused by his being run over by a ghost train. However, the investigator is sure there is a more rational explanation...
The Death Train
1978 · 5 votes
Movie5.0CrimeDramaSydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House.
Scobie Malone
1975 · 10 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceAn aspiring horror movie writer searches for love in a world of heartache, desperation and fluffy toys.
Angst
2000 · 4 votes
Movie7.0CrimeA wristwatch-smuggling gang bring watches into the country in a car's petrol tank. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official Anthony Steel struggles manfully to rescue the girl.
The Switch
1963 · 4 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
An opportunistic bounty hunter and a beautiful insurance agent travel to Australia to track down stolen booty.
Tully
1975 · 1 votes
Movie6.1DramaWesternKen, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. Marvin an experienced gunman befriends Ken and becomes his mentor.
Movie10.0ThrillerAdventureFranciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
Puzzle
1978 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ActionScience FictionOver the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Resistance
1992 · 3 votes
MovieAfter 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.
Movie8.0DramaThe story of a university student who leads a protest against an Asian security conference in Canberra which has been organised by his father the Australian Defence Minister. His life and his demonstration become disrupted.
Demonstrator
1971 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ThrillerAnd just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.
End Play
1976 · 5 votes
MovieDramaScience Fiction
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TV6.7SoapDramaAn Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
E Street
1989 · 6 votes
TV7.2DramaTheatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Theatre 625
1964 · 5 votes
TV6.2CrimeDramaWater Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
Water Rats
1996 · 11 votes
TV6.2DramaMedical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
All Saints
1998 · 13 votes
TV6.2FamilySkippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
1968 · 21 votes
TV6.9DramaRich but insecure heiress Stephanie Harper believes she's found true love with tennis pro Greg Marsden, but after the nuptials, Greg promptly begins an affair with Stephanie’s best friend, Jilly Stewart. Whilst on their honeymoon, Greg pushes Stephanie into a crocodile-infested swamp, and he and Jilly watch as she is apparently mauled to death. However, Stephanie miraculously survives and travels to an island clinic where she undergoes extensive plastic surgery. Using her new identity, Tara Welles, and fortune, she plots revenge on Greg and Jilly, aiming to take back what's rightfully hers.
Return to Eden
1983 · 24 votes
TV5.2DramaWildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999. The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes. The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several Logie Awards, including Silver Logies for outstanding work by Rachael Blake and Tony Martin for acting, as well as the Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998. It was also nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards. A rerun of the series began in Australia on ABC1 in the early hours of Friday mornings, starting in September 2008.
Wildside
1997 · 5 votes
TV6.4DramaCrimeAt Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, Sgt. "Bluey" Hills, unable to work within the existing police squads, oversees Department B. They're assigned cases other departments could not readily solve by conventional means, with Hills applying his unconventional methods to bring about their resolution. Bluey's investigations are supported by newly assigned Gary Dawson, long-time cohort Monica Rourke, and undercover officer Reg Truscott, who spends his time ostensibly working as a small-time burglar, and supplying Bluey with information on the activities of local criminals.
Bluey
1976 · 5 votes
TV9.3Action & AdventureDramaRiptide is an Australian adventure television
Riptide
1969 · 3 votes
- TV10.0Crime
A suspended policeman searches for the evidence to link a businessman with a murder in this continuing story drama series conspicuously modelled on The Fugitive. It was dumped after five weeks, perhaps due to its unpleasant central character.
The Spoiler
1972 · 1 votes
TV7.0ComedyThe hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny trek down under to write the great Australian crime novel, and end up supervising Patrick's boisterous young nieces while their own father is abroad.
Father, Dear Father
1978 · 3 votes
TV10.0ComedyGrass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003. The series is set around the fictional Arcadia Waters Council near Sydney, and was primarily a satirical look at the machinations of local government. It was written by Geoffrey Atherden. Part of the series was filmed in the inner west Sydney suburb of Concord. Many external shots of Arcadia waters Council chambers used Concord Council Chambers as a setting and as was other various locations around Concord, particularly in the shopping centre and cafes in Majors Bay Road. Beach scenes were filmed at Mona Vale, New South Wales on Sydney's northern beaches, while the location "Cemetery Point" was filmed at the Mona Vale headland reserve.
Grass Roots
2000 · 1 votes