I also liked the 2001-03 version of this theme, which sounded modern.
Isn’t this when it went super soap opera style though? It was the very late 90s / early 2000s when it went from gritty realism to more stylistic and soap opera storylines plus they changed to 30 minute episodes didn’t they?
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No, this was after it switched back to a 1-hour format & remained that way until the series finale in 2010.
But yes, it went more ‘soapy’ when Paul Marquess became EP, which included killing off 6 characters in the Sun Hill Police Station fire, as well as Chief Inspector Derek Conway (who had been in the show since 1988) in a separate incident a couple eps before.
After Paul Marquess left the EP role in 2005, it went back more towards a real police drama.
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It’s like they wanted it to be a cop version of Casualty
While we’re on the topic of classic British television, does anyone else also remember the titles Burnside (which apparently was a spin-off of The Bill) or Linda Green?
Both aired on the ABC in Australia.
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Man says channels wish they had a 40% share now, compared to when there were 3 or 4 stations. What a revelation.
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As seen on Facebook. This was when James Tobin was known as Jesse Tobin in the noughties.
Personally I liked that Go Go Stop show, IIRC it would air for a few weeks and then a block of It’s Academic (then hosted by another Weekend Sunrise presenter, Simon Reeve) episodes would air, and vice versa.
I’m also made to believe Tobin got his start on The Big Arvo, which was axed in May 2005.
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Both personal memory and the internet would suggest that James (or Jesse) Tobin was a presenter of the now long forgotten Nickelodeon Australia program “SNTV” during its second & final season before he moved onto Seven and The Big Arvo.
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I don’t think he was on The Big Breakfast, I think Ben, Anna and the blonde girl who I don’t remember her name was on that, with another fella.
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That would be Luke Jacobz, who later appeared on Home and Away and took on The X Factor hosting gig in 2010 after Matthew Newton was axed at the 11th hour.
While we’re still on the topic of noughties television. Back when music video shows were prevalent on weekend mornings, with Video Hits on Ten going head to head with rage on the ABC.
Saturdays on Ten between 2002-11 had music videos in the morning, and then the AFL on either side of the news in the afternoon/evening.
Seven had All Music Video in 2000-01, which followed the hour-long Sunrise programme, but it was axed towards the end of 2001 when Sunrise was reformatted.
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Jen Hardy?
I’m pretty sure Luke Jacobz didn’t come along until The Big Arvo. He replaced a bloke called Curtis.
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Yes and yes! Curtis Fernandez.
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Music video shows on Saturday mornings were an institution on Seven for years going back to the 1980s
Sounds (with Donnie Sutherland)
Saturday Morning Live (with Jono and Dano)
Video Smash Hits (Michael Horrocks, Toni Pearen).
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Speaking of VSH, here’s the first episode of '91.
YouTube: Andrew Gray.
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Is that Emily Symons there the same one as Marilyn from Home and Away?
Yes it is ando.
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I didn’t know she’d been anything other than H&A then when I googled I found a few other things but couldn’t find that one.
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