Bruce McAvaney report from a Sports World update.
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Kate Ritchie as Molly in the 1986 Cyclone Tracy miniseries. She was 7 but it was the usual production/child labour laws technique of a very short older kid playing much younger (they had to use a plate to cover up her missing tooth because of that).
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Kate’s very first TV role.
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Yesterday (January 10) marked 25 years since The Sopranos debuted on HBO in the US. It is still regarded as one of the best dramas in the modern era.
To celebrate the milestone, several deleted scenes are being released on Max.
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Doug Mulray teaser promo for his Ch7 show
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That show was the bomb! Essential Saturday night viewing in 1994. I seem to recall it came back in 1995 and lasted just one episode before ol Uncle Doug pulled the pin.
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Did they issue everyone with one of these couches in the 80s? I swear I see them everywhere in interviews.
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Is this Penny Cook she was on A Country Practice as well. I was a baby when E-street was on but I’ve heard a lot about it apparently it was like a grittier version of Home and Away and Neighbours so why did it end in 1993 they should bring it back?
it is Josephine Mitchell, who also was previously on A Country Practice. I am not sure who the child actor is.
E Street started out as a slightly more grittier version of Neighbours/Richmond Hill but it was subjected to a major rework when ratings didn’t really fire, which saw it become a bit more contemporary, I guess. A more youthful/hip version of Neighbours IIRC and started incorporating actual pop/rock music tracks as background.
Probably because they came up with really outlandish stories that resulted in a drop in ratings.
First there was good guy Steven “Richo” Richardson who became scary Mr Bad at night. Then there was Constable Max who would turn into a Werewolf. 
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Didn’t they resort to a fire to try and get better ratings too?
The publicity photo with Jo and the little lady seems to be going for the “a beauty and a cutie” reaction. Which may be why TV WEEK Australia used it.
hmm… not that i can recall. The series finished up with a fire, same as A Country Practice did.
E Street was one of the few shows to survive Ten’s dark 10 TV Australia days.
it was lucky it didn’t get axed, as it wasn’t doing that well, but for some reason Mr Shanks or Ten management saw the potential for a revamp and actually gave the producers a chance to rework it rather than axe it and have to start again with a new show.
IIRC but I may be corrected, Ten reduced the show’s output to one episode a week to give the producers some breathing space to re-work the show and change some of the elements of it. One of which was to revamp the theme tune to give it a more upbeat feel.
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I would say the Neighbours situation from a few years earlier may have also helped by reworking the format.
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The ATV-10 ACP was a disaster. At least little Miss Armstrong was allowed trousers in “Round the Twist” – as whoever was in charge of these things at ATV insisted otherwise for the ACP version of AfterMASH – despite the usual VIC weather. I’m not surprised Laura’s school friends laughed their heads off (as she reported much later). Didn’t help the poor child generally that Chrissy Seaver was fresh in viewer’s minds in 1994.
