Oxford Australia on the small screen 1970-1995 - mini-series

An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.

A nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly carries a stash of jewels taken in a foiled robbery. The robbers track her to the outback, and are determined to let nothing.

Initially set during the late 19th century when the privileged Elizabeth Patterson elopes with German immigrant Stefan Mueller. The pair start their own vineyard but later world war one threatens to tear apart their lives.

Orphaned after a shipwreck, Philadelphia Gordon finds love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer navigating Australia's Murray River.

The sequel follows on with the same main characters, but with actress Nikki Coghill replacing Sigrid Thornton in the leading role.

The lives of three families in the 1960s.

In 1915 Australia, German prisoners of war, as well as Aussies of German heritage, are kept in camps. This creates many animosities toward the authorities, but in this account the camp is very relaxed in its discipline... enough that one of its prisoners, a violinist, is able to fall in love with one of the local Australian women.

The lives of a dozen Australian soldiers who served in the ANZACs. Fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, then on the Western Front for the remainder of WWI, it's the story of the hardships, camaraderie and casualties of war.

Nicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott star in a 1989 miniseries about a young woman in a Thai prison for carrying her boyfriend's heroin.

On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of heroin, a crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death. Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the hangman's rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.

Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

Mysterious things happen at the coast of Graves Point: An empty boat lies at the shore, divers vanish. The sea biologist Dr. Talley thinks he knows the solution of the mystery: In the depth there is a gigantic squid.

Ellie and Jack Shannon start a jewellery business in Burma, which is renowned for its rubies but is also one of the corners of the infamous heroin 'Golden Triangle'. Things turn sinister when one of their biggest customers, Samira Nazib, reveals that drug-trafficking is the true nature of their business. The Shannons spy on her and her partner for the Australian Federal Police.

Set in 1980s Sydney, this acclaimed mini-series tells the story of the relationship between corrupt Detective Roger Rogerson and one of Australia's most infamous criminals Neddy Smith.

A woman returns home to Australia after living in New York for nine years and plots to take over the family company.

Captain Jardine's England team employs brutal "bodyline" tactics against Australian batsmen during the 1932-33 Ashes series, sparking outrage and damaging Anglo-Australian cricket relations.

A Sydney architect suffering from a mid life crisis tries to put his life back together.

In the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia.

The struggles of nuns and students at a Roman Catholic convent school in 1960s Sydney.

During Captain James Cook's first voyage, in 1770, he discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony.

Cassidy is a 1989 mini series based on the novel by Morris West. It was based on the life of Charles Parnell Cassidy, a fictitious premier of New South Wales, Australia.

The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.

The incident in the late 1980's at Tianamen Square in Beijing provides the backdrop for this drama. Dr Will Flint (Bob Peck) is in China as a Oncology consultant at a medical college, dealing with his recent family traumas whilst also attempting to track down his old mentor, Professor Hsu. Will meets and befriends Jin Juan (Lily Chen), a translator that helps him with his search for the Professor. Will is helped by ex-patriates Monica (Linda Cropper) and Larry (Gary Sweet), and together they become part of the students fight for democracy, leading to the event of June 1989 that shocked the world.

The three proprietors of a beauty salon located in a lavish Sydney hotel find their futures looking uncertain as American troops gain the upper hand against Nazi forces in the winning days of WWII.