Prime Time (Australian TV series)

This article is about the Australian soap opera. For similarly named series, see Prime time (disambiguation) § Media.

Prime Time is an Australian soap opera drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that aired on the Nine Network in from January 1986 to January 1987. Prime Time was the last Australian soap produced with exterior location scenes shot on film and interior scenes shot on videotape. The series was not a popular success and was cancelled after sixty episodes.

Prime Time
Genre	Drama Soap opera
Created by	Terry Stapleton
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	60
Production
Executive producers	Hector Crawford Ian Crawford Terry Stapleton
Producer	Graham Moore
Production company	Crawford Productions
Original release
Network	Nine Network
Release	30 January 1986 (1986-01-30) – 10 January 1987 (1987-01-10)

Premise

The series was set at a fictional television station, Channel 5, and dealt with the behind-the-scenes goings-on on the set of a current affairs series called Assignment.

Cast

• Chris Orchard – David Lockhart
• Anthony Hawkins – Harry Jones
• Nina Landis – Kate Macarthur
• Peter Kowitz – Jim Donnegan
• David Whitney – Stephen Lockhart
• Julianne White – Diana Fields
• Peter Whitford – Charles Garrett
• Gary Sweet – Craig Lawrence
• Sonja Tallis – Georgina Jones
• Tottie Goldsmith – Jamie
• Katrina Foster – Jocelyn Cole
• Ben Mendelsohn – Bart Jones
• John Hannan – John Balenko
• Jane Hall – Sandy Lockhart
• Kathy Caswell – Carol Foster
• Antonia Murphy – Kylie Garrett
• Garry McDonald
• Rachel Friend

Reception

In 2020, Fiona Byrne of the Herald Sun included Prime Time in her feature about "Truly terrible TV shows that flopped". Of the show, she stated: "Prime Time was a little watched, long-forgotten drama series which screened on Channel 9 for one season in 1986."

External links

• Crawford Productions
• Prime Time at IMDb
• Prime Time at the National Film and Sound Archive