- Ted Roberts
Ted Roberts is an
Australian television scriptwriter and supervising producer.After completing his education at
Marist Brothers College inRandwick , Roberts worked in advertising and sales promotion before commencing his career as a freelance writer for television and filmTed Roberts began his career in television in the 1960s, writing early episodes of
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo . The series was screened in over eighty countries and its theme tune, composed byEric Jupp , is one of the best known and most recognisable Australian tunes. The long version (the B side on the record) has lyrics by Ted Roberts.Ted Roberts' other television credits include "Homicide" (
Seven Network - 1964-1976), "Certain Women "(ABC - 1973-1976), "Rush" (ABC - 1974-1976), ""Patrol Boat"" (ABC 1979-80), "Water Rats" (Nine Network - 1996-2001), "A Country Practice ", "Blue Heelers ", "Mission Impossible", "Star Trek".Awards
He has won four Australian Awgies and a Henry Lawson Festival Award for his writing, and received AFI and Logie nominations. He won the 1974
Australian Writers' Guild in the Original Television Drama Category forThree Men of the City . He is also Winner of the Henry Lawson prize (for the TVminiseries Lindsay's Boy (ABC - 1974) ). In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious Richard Lane Award by theAustralian Writers' Guild for Services to the Australian Writers' Guild.ongs
One of his first songs (1965) was "Bound for Hobart Town" with music by S.E. Libaek. Recorded by Leonard Teale and Andy Sundstrom on CBS. The song celebrates the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia.
A later commission was for the Decimal Currency Board. An advertising jingle for the introduction of decimal currenty on 14 February 1966, the tune is to "Click Go the Shears".
*In come the dollars, in come the cents,
*Out with the pound, the shillings and the penceIn 1968, he composed My Pal Skippy to music by Eric Jupp.
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* Lindsay's boy by Ted Roberts in cite book | author = Alrene Sykes (Ed.) |title = Five plays for stage, radio and television| publisher = St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press| year = 1977| id = ISBN 0-70-221444-2
* National Library of Australia
* Music AustraliaExternal links
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* [http://www.wildandwoolley.com.au/profiles/ted_roberts Wild and Woolley | Ted Roberts]
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