Best Australian Dramas
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- CreatorTony AyresLouise FoxStarsPatrick BrammallEmma BoothSean KeenanSeven people return from the dead with no memory and attempt to unveil what brought them to the grave in the first place.
- CreatorJohn EdwardsAmanda HiggsStarsDeborah MailmanDavid TredinnickSamuel JohnsonThis iconic Australian series follows eight people living in St Kilda, Melbourne who are all looking for the same things: love, sex, romance, success, and anything else that's worth pursuing.
- CreatorDebra OswaldImogen BanksJohn EdwardsStarsAsher KeddieKat StewartRichard DaviesThe story of the impossible loves of 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her fabulously messy family.
- StarsWayne BlairLeo StrippRichard GreenThe troubled lives of struggling indigenous Australians in the tough, rundown neighborhood of the inner suburb of Redfern in Sydney.
- CreatorJon BellStarsKelton PellLisa FlanaganShari SebbensHead of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. Can he let go of his past in time to save the future?
- StarsElspeth BallantyneBarbara JungwirthBetty BobbittThe lives of the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
- CreatorJudi McCrossinAmanda HiggsStarsJustine ClarkeShane JacobsonWilliam McInnesThe lives of family and friends who go through a variety of ups and downs.
- CreatorMichael LucasStarsAnna TorvSam ReidWilliam McInnesIn the 1980s, an embattled anchorwoman and an ambitious reporter confront studio politics and their own desires as they navigate the cut-throat world of Australia's news media.
- StarsEssie DavisNathan PageHugo Johnstone-BurtA female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
- StarsAaron PedersenTasia ZalarTasma WaltonDetective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
- StarsCaroline CraigPaul TassoneDieter BrummerEach season of this multi-award-winning television series takes you through a 13-episode run in the rise and fall of real-life Australian underworld figures as told from both sides of the law.
- CreatorChristopher LeeJohn EdwardsStarsRodger CorserCallan MulveyNicole da SilvaThey are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide.
- CreatorBevan LeeStarsMarta DusseldorpNoni HazlehurstBrett ClimoSarah Adams returns to Australia post World War II to start anew. She begins working in a hospital, much to the dismay of Elizabeth Bligh, a wealthy matriarch.
- CreatorBevan LeeStarsRebecca GibneyErik ThomsonMichael CatonMeet Dave and Julie Rafter: just your average Australians with three adult children. On the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary it seems that they're about to have their house to themselves at long last.
- CreatorChristine BartlettMichael LucasNathan MayfieldStarsKat StewartStephen PeacockeDoris YounaneAfter meeting on the singles table at a wedding, five humans down on their luck in both love and life jokingly arrive at a solution to their real estate angst as solo flyers: they could pitch in and buy a house together.
- CreatorTony McDonaldAlison NisselleStarsChris HaywoodSimon WestawayJeremy KewleyFour members of the infamous Hennessey clan are acquitted of the shooting of two policemen in a bungled bank heist. Melbourne is shocked as brothers Mal and Steve, along with brother-in-law Darren Mack and friend Ken Hardy, walk free.
- CreatorShelley BirseMichael MillerStarsPeter FentonKate BeahanPaul Barry"Love is a Four Letter Word" follows the everyday dramas of a group of young people living and working in an inner-city pub run by Angus and his girlfriend Albee.
- CreatorLavinia WarnerStarsAnn BellStephanie ColeClaire ObermanAfter the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.
- CreatorTony McDonaldAlison NisselleStarsSimon WestawayPeter CumminsSean ScullyPhoenix is an Australian police drama television series.
- CreatorDeb CoxAndrew KnightStarsJohn HowardSigrid ThorntonKerry ArmstrongA big city lawyer is prompted to undergo a 'seachange' with her children and becomes the magistrate at the small coastal town of Pearl Bay, where the family comes to love its people and the quality time with each other.
- StarsLeonard TealeGeorge MallabyJohn FeganThe cases and crimes actioned by the Victoria (Australia) homicide squad, with many cases based of true events.
- CreatorJennifer RoweHal McElroyStarsLucy BellPeter MochrieGeoff MorrellCenters on homicide detective odd couple, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Shot in Sydney, Australia, the show was known for portraying gripping crime drama, while displaying the grittier side of urban Sydney.
- CreatorEllie BeaumontTim PyeDrew ProffittStarsFirass DiraniRhys MuldoonGary SweetThe lives of four Australian men who are raising their children.
- CreatorJames GriffinMaxine FlemingStarsErik ThomsonMelina VidlerBenson Jack AnthonyA recently-widowed father quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a top-selling Sydney newspaper.
- CreatorSusan MacGillicuddyStarsDominic PurcellNadine GarnerMatthew DyktynskiRAW FM is a radio station run for and by 'young people'. Call them teenagers, youth, Gen Xers, whatever. It's theirs. And this is their story.