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ABC (Australia)

12 shows, 12 sequences, oldest first.

One of these moved between networks during its run and appears under each one.

1 sequence

Mr Squiggle

1959–1999ABC (Australia)Comedy

A marionette from the moon with a pencil for a nose, turning children's scribbles into drawings for forty years.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Bananas in Pyjamas

1992–2001ABC (Australia)Comedy

Two bananas, three teddy bears and a rat, made by the ABC and sold to eighty countries.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Frontline

1994–1997ABC (Australia)Comedy

A current affairs programme satirised from inside its own newsroom, and the model most workplace mockumentaries since have followed.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Heartbreak High

1994–1999Ten / ABC (Australia)Drama

A Sydney comprehensive, revived by Netflix thirty years later.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

SeaChange

1998–2019ABC (Australia)Comedy

A city lawyer moving to a coastal town, and the series that put the phrase into Australian English.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

The Wiggles

1998–ABC (Australia)Comedy

Four early-childhood teachers from Sydney who worked out that a children's band could tour like a rock one.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Kath & Kim

2002–2007ABC (Australia)Comedy

A mother and daughter in outer-suburban Melbourne, and the most quoted Australian comedy of its decade.

  • Season 2
1 sequence

Blue Water High

2005–2008ABC (Australia)Drama

A surf academy on the northern beaches, with the cast chosen partly for whether they could actually surf.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Spicks and Specks

2005–ABC (Australia)Comedy

A music quiz named after a Bee Gees single, and one of the ABC's most watched programmes for a decade.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

We Can Be Heroes

2005ABC (Australia)Comedy

Chris Lilley playing all six finalists for Australian of the Year, in his first series.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Summer Heights High

2007ABC (Australia)Comedy

Chris Lilley playing three pupils and staff at the same school, shot as a documentary.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Angry Boys

2011ABC (Australia)Comedy

The follow-up to Summer Heights High, co-produced with HBO and the BBC and shot on three continents.

  • Season 1