Waterloo Station (TV series)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Waterloo Station | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Soap opera Drama |
| Created by | Reg Watson |
| Opening theme | Tony Hatch |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Production company | Reg Grundy Organisation |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nine Network |
| Release | 2 February 1983 – 7 February 1984 |
Waterloo Station is a short-lived Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1983.[1] The series began with a movie-length episode and continued on with hour long episodes.[2]
Waterloo Station focused on two sisters, both married to policemen, and their adult children starting careers in the police force. The main locations were a police station, a police training academy in Sydney, and a large boarding house that provided accommodation for several characters.
Waterloo Station was an attempt by Grundy's to reproduce for Channel Nine the success of their earlier shows The Restless Years and The Young Doctors which focused on youth situations. Like Crawford Productions' successful police series Cop Shop,[3] Waterloo Station combined police procedural elements with domestic situations involving the police personnel and their families.
The series was recorded at the Eric Porter studios in North Sydney.
Cast
- Ron Graham – Jack Edwards
- Sally Tayler – Sally Edwards
- Pam Western – Liz Edwards
- John Bonney – George Logan
- Jenny Ludlam – Ann Logan
- Jennifer West – Rosie Wallace
- Malcolm Cork – David Keller
- Gerry Sont – Rick Thompson
- Danny Roberts – Trevor Brown
- Tex Morton – Harry McDowell
- Julianne White – Stacey Daniels
- Steven Grives – Steve Colby
- Bartholomew John - Tony Harris
Reception
Peter Wilmoth of The Age said of the first episode: "Waterloo Station will need time to develop. The first impression of Nine’s new drama series is that it has enough excitement and reasonable acting to succeed. The second impression nags: it is lacking in subtlty (sic)."[4] He later wrote: "Waterloo Station buried its initial promise in the cause of froth. Apart from the occasional moving scene, the show is frustratingly unsubtle and zealously protective of its clichés.[5] The Sydney Morning Herald’s Harry Robinson stated: "By literary standards, Waterloo Station is crude in its appeal to young people of scant education. It plays on youth's yen for feeling hard-done-bv and alienated from oldies."[6] Mike Carlton wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald: "a better title might be Cop Shop meets the Sons and Daughters off Certain Women for, as with the marching East Germans, there was more than a smidgeon of déjà vu about things."[7] Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, Rosalind Reines called it "hammy but enthralling".[8] Anthony Clarke in The Age commented: "We shouldn't expect too much from our soapies. But surely a prime-time evening show should be more than just a non-stop talk marathon devoid of drama, of action or romance".[9]
Episodes
Season 1 (1983–1984)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | TBA | Greg Shears | Reg Watson | 30 January 1983 | |
|
A mysterious jig-saw murderer terrorises the families of a detectives involved in the case. A young hitchhiker finds himself in precarious situation. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | TBA | Alister Smart | Bretty Quin & C.McCourt | 31 January 1983 | |
| 3 | 3 | TBA | Phillip East | David Phillips | 7 February 1983 | |
| 4 | 4 | TBA | Pillip East | Rick Maier & John Misto & Bretty Quin | 8 February 1983 | |
| 5 | 5 | TBA | Pillip East | Bretty Quin & Ian Coughlan | 14 February 1983 | |
|
David Keller confronts Rick about his feelings for the police trainee Sally Edwards. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 15 February 1983 | |
| 7 | 7 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 21 February 1983 | |
|
A confession of Ann's disturbs George, Sally and Rick are sworn in as police constables. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 24 February 1983 | |
| 9 | 9 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 28 February 1983 | |
| 10 | 10 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 3 March 1983 | |
| 11 | 11 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 7 March 1983 | |
| 12 | 12 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 10 March 1983 | |
| 13 | 13 | TBA | Unknown | Unknown | 14 March 1983 | |
| 14 | 14 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 15 | 15 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 16 | 16 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 17 | 17 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 18 | 18 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 19 | 19 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 20 | 20 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 21 | 21 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 22 | 22 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 23 | 23 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 24 | 24 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 25 | 25 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 26 | 26 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 27 | 27 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 28 | 28 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 29 | 29 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 30 | 30 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 31 | 31 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 32 | 32 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 33 | 33 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 34 | 34 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 35 | 35 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 36 | 36 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 37 | 37 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 38 | 38 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 39 | 39 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1983 | |
| 40 | 40 | TBA | David C. Wilson | David Phillips | 7 February 1984 | |
Home media
There is yet to be a DVD Release of Waterloo Station.