Motel (TV series)

Motel was an Australian television soap opera made by ATN-7 in 1968.

The series was screened in a daytime slot and was an attempt at an Australian version of the British serial Crossroads. Motel dealt with the Gillian family, who ran the Greenfields Motel.

The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 132 episodes ^[1].

Cast members of the series included Jill Forster, Jack Thompson, Ross Higgins, Enid Lorimer. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.

Notes

1. ^ Moran, Albert. Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, Allen & Unwin, 1993. ISBN 0642184623 p 299

External links

• Motel at the National Film and Sound Archive
• Motel at the Internet Movie Database
• Clip from Show at You Tube