Rush (TV series)

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show_name = Rush


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runtime = 50 minutes
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starring = Max Meldrum
Alain Doutey
Vincent Ball
Jane Harders
Paul Mason
Alwyn Kurts
Olivia Hamnett
John Waters
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country = AUS
language = English
network = ABC TV
first_aired = 1974
last_aired = 1976
num_episodes = 26
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imdb_id = 0071046
tv_com_id = :"For the 2008 Australian TV series see Rush (2008 TV series)"."Rush" was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1974 and 1976. The first 13 episodes were produced in 1974 and filmed in black and white. In 1976, 13 more episodes were produced, in colour, in conjunction with French production company Antennae-Z France. Each series featured a different cast with the exception of John Waters. [Harrison, Tony "The Australian Film and Television Companion", Simon and Schuster ISBN 0-7318-0455-4]

"Rush" was a historical drama set during the Victorian Gold Rush during the 1850s. The first series was set at Crocker's Creek and filmed in Melbourne. The main cast the first year featured Waters, Olivia Hamnett, Brendon Lunney, Alwyn Kurts, Peter Fleet, Max Meldrum. In 1976 the action was relocated to Turon Springs and shot in Sydney utilising sets left over from a previous historical drama about Ben Hall. Waters, Jane Harders, Delore Whitman, Alain Doutey and Vincent Ball were the stars. Hugh Keays-Byrne won a Logie Award for his performance in one episode of the second series.

The bulk of the scripts for the series were written by Colin Free and Ted Roberts.

In the early 1990s the ABC comedy program "The Late Show" featured a humorous overdub of "Rush" entitled "The Olden Days". The collected segments were later released on VHS. In 2007, they (along with "Bargearse", based on "Bluey", a similarly overdubbed TV show from the 1970s) were released on DVD.

The theme to the program was released as a hit single in Australia by "Brian May and the ABC Showband" (b/w The Theme from Seven Little Australians) on the "Image" record label in 1974. The single made number 5 in the Australian national singles chart in December 1974.

ee also

* Rush (2008 TV series)
* List of Australian television series

References

External links

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* [http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/rush.htm TV Eye - Classic Australian Television]
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=444744;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Rush at the National Film and Sound Archive]