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Script-writer.
Charlie Strachan started his script-writing career on The Sullivans in 1976. In the mid-1980s, he wrote for New Zealand television, including scripts for The Seekers (1986), starring a young Temuera Morrison and described as a series of 'fables' about three children who, put into foster care as children, come together as adults to seek out their parents, and for Shark in the Park (1990-1991), a drama covering the professional and personal lives of Wellington police officers.
Returning to Australian television in the early 1990s, he wrote for such programs as G.P. (between 1991 and 1995), Heartbreak High (in 1997), Good Guys, Bad Guys (in 1998), and All Saints (for which he wrote at least twenty-two episodes between 1998 and 2008).
Since 2000, he has contributed scripts to Murder Call (2000), McLeod's Daughters (2001), Cybergirl (2001), and the animated children's series Flipper & Lopaka (series three, 2005).
Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
- form y McLeod's Daughters ( dir. Ali Ali et. al. )agent Australia : Nine Network Southern Star Entertainment , 2001-2009 Z1858228 2001-2009 series - publisher film/TV
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
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All Saints
All Saints : Medical Response Unit
( dir. Leigh Spence
et. al. )agent
1998
Australia
:
Seven Network
Red Heart Entertainment
,
1998-2009
Z1571142
1998
series - publisher
film/TV
One of Australia's highest rating dramas, All Saints is a Logie Award-winning Australian medical drama set in the fictional All Saints Western General Hospital in suburban Sydney. The stories originally focused on the nursing staff of Ward 17 run by Nursing Unit Manager Terri Sullivan. It was sometimes referred to as the 'garbage ward' because it took the overflow of patients.
In 2004 Network Seven producers overhauled the series in an effort to increase the show's gradually dwindling audience. They achieved this by closing down Ward 17 and transferring some of the staff to the Emergency Department managed by Frank Campion. Several other new lead characters were also introduced. The changes also saw the storylines begin to focus more on the lives of the doctors and nurses.
Another significant change to the series came in early 2009 when the producers introduced the Medical Response Unit. Central to this development was the helicopter which took doctors to rescue situations outside the hopsital and which in turn brought patients to the All Saints Emergency Department. The show's name was also changed at this time to All Saints: Medical Response Unit. The increased production costs created by having scenes shot on location played a part, however, in the series being cancelled mid-year. The series ended with the Emergency Department and Medical Response Unit teams having a dinner to farewell the last remaining original character, Von Ryan on her final day at All Saints.
All Saints was popular in many countries including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and Iran.
- 1999 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2000 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2001 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2001 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2002 winner Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Australian Program
- 2004 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2005 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Program
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2006 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Program
- 2007 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Program
- 2008 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Program
- 2010 nominated Logie Awards — Most Popular Drama Program
- 2007 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2006 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2005 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2002 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series
- 2003 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2002 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
- 2000 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series
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form
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Good Guys, Bad Guys
( dir. Brendan Maher
et. al. )agent
1997
Australia
:
Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier
Nine Network
,
1997-1998
Z1367327
1997
series - publisher
film/TV
crime
An edgy and off-beat crime series that relies heavily on humour, contemporary music, and a touch of the bizarre, centring on the character of Elvis Maginnis. An ex-cop from the wrong side of the tracks, Maginnis now runs his own dry-cleaning business but still finds himself drawn into the shady side of life.
- 1998 nominated Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Drama Series