Frontline (1994)
Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programmes and reporting. It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC TV in 1994, 1995 and 1997.
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Episode 1 - Dick on the Line
Release Date: 1997-02-24It's the end of another successful season at Frontline, but after three years at the helm, Mike Moore is not happy. He feels the show has become lightweight, obsessed with ratings rather than serious public issues. It is time to make a stand...
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Episode 2 - My Generation
Release Date: 1997-03-03After giving a talk at a school, Mike becomes concerned that Frontline is presenting a negative view of young people. He sets out to fix the problem, but runs into a small obstacle- his executive producer, Graham Prowse. As Prowsey would say, it's an episode "no parent can afford to miss..."
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Episode 3 - The Shadow We Cast
Release Date: 1997-03-10When an independent Queensland MP makes a controversial maiden speech, the Frontline team swings into action. "Where does she get her prejudiced views from?" demands Mike, before introducing another story on Vietnamese heroin dealers.
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Episode 4 - One Rule for One
Release Date: 1997-03-17After attacking a dubious property developer on air, Mike starts to receive death threats. Prowsey arranges a bodyguard for Mike's protection, but Mike is less than happy about it.
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Episode 5 - A Hole in the Heart (1)
Release Date: 1997-03-24Frontline attempts for save the life of a young boy with a hole in his heart. Brooke makes an announcement.
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Episode 6 - A Hole in the Heart (2)
Release Date: 1997-03-31Mike attempts to play a round of golf with Ian Baker-Finch. Brooke has a decision to make.
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Episode 7 - The Simple Life
Release Date: 1997-04-07While it is revealed that Mike is the fourth richest entertainer in Australia, Frontline profiles the unemployed Baxter family.
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Episode 8 - I Get the Big Names
Release Date: 1997-04-14Mike seeks an interview with Mel Gibson.
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Episode 9 - The Art of the Interview
Release Date: 1997-04-21Prowsey educates the new Sunday Forum producer in the Art of the Interview.
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Episode 10 - "I" Disease
Release Date: 1997-04-28Frontline has a new segment producer, Mike is writing his life story and has an unfortunate accident with a sign language translator.
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Episode 11 - Addicted to Fame
Release Date: 1997-05-05Mike decides to abandon publicity while Geoff's weather special is a big success.
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Episode 12 - The Code
Release Date: 1997-05-12After years of torture, Mike makes the decision to axe Elliott Rhodes while Marty begins researching Mike for an episode of ""This is Your Life""
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Episode 13 - Epitaph
Release Date: 1997-05-19Mike goes on an Aboriginal health crusade.
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Episode 27 - Dick on the Line
Release Date: 1997-02-24This is an episode of series three of Frontline, which aired in 1997.Several years after season 2, Frontline has become the highest-rated current affairs show in the country, under the guidance of an experienced and smooth-operating Executive Producer (Alan Dale). The show, however, still targets the lowest common denominator, and continually airs manipulative pieces instead of hard-hitting journalism. When the executive producer retires, however, his replacement Graham Prowsie Prowse (Steve Bisley) proves to be a chauvinistic manipulator who doesn't care at all for Mike's desire to focus on important issues. As a result, Mike begins considering moving to the ABC. Steve Bisley joins the cast. In most episodes he is given top billing.From this episode onwards Jase (Torquil Neilson) now speaks. In the first two seasons, he never said a word.
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Episode 28 - My Generation
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Episode 29 - The Shadow We Cast
Release Date: 1997-03-10This is an episode of series three of Frontline, which aired in 1997.After listening to Pauline Hanson's maiden speech, the Frontline crew join a media frenzy attacking her Nativist and Protectionist policies as racist until finally Hanson agrees to be interviewed. At the same time, however, Frontline runs a swathe of stories about various ethnical groups, which clearly divide racial lines and are designed to appeal to racist prejudices. Mike's interview with Pauline Hanson parodies a 1996 interview Hanson gave on 60 Minutes with Tracey Curro.For this episode only, Steve Bisley is second in the opening credits.Although this season is supposedly set several years after the previous seasons (set in 1994 and 1995 respectively), this episode is very clearly set in 1996, as evidenced by Pauline Hanson's maiden speech.
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Episode 30 - One Rule for One
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Episode 31 - A Hole in the Heart - Part 1
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Episode 32 - A Hole in the Heart - Part 2
Release Date: 1997-03-31This is an episode of series three of Frontline, which aired in 1997.As the day of Ashira's surgery nears, Marty and the team attempt to keep the story exclusive and find an entire week's storylines in what is turning out to be a relatively predictable event; and Prowsie struggles to smooth-talk his way out of not mentioning Rotary's involvement in the project. Mike's determination to be the star reporter of the story begins to wane when he is offered the chance to play golf with celebrity Ian Baker-Finch. And when Brooke informs Prowsie and Trish (Lynda Gibson) that she is pregnant, she struggles between the options of keeping her baby - which, as an unwed mother, will alienate Frontlines conservative viewership - or keeping her career.
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Episode 33 - The Simple Life
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Episode 34 - I Get the Big Names
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Episode 35 - The Art of the Interview
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Episode 36 - "I" Disease
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Episode 37 - Addicted to Fame
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Episode 38 - The Code
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Episode 39 - Epitaph
Release Date: 1997-05-19