Terry Stapleton

Homicide

Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

Release Date1964-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.

Release Date1986-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count15

Carson's Law

Carson's Law is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network between 1983-1984. The series was a period piece set in the 1920s and starred Lorraine Bayly as progressive solicitor Jennifer Carson. The episodes revolved around the cases taken on by Jennifer, and the various personal intrigues of her family. The series' premiere was billed as a 90-minute "movie-length" episode on 24 January 1983, with another two-hour episode in the same timeslot the following night, before settling into its twice-weekly 60-minute (with ads) format the following week. Carson's Law was noted for its quality scripts and period production values, however although the programme was very popular in Melbourne where the series was based and filmed, it did not succeed in Sydney. It was cancelled in 1984 after 184 episodes with the final episode airing on ATV-10 on 1 December 1984.

Release Date1983-01-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count184

Vote Count1

The Henderson Kids

The Henderson Kids is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.

Release Date1985-05-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count24

Vote Count3

Zoo Family

Follows a family who live at Melbourne Zoo in Victoria, Australia. Doctor David Mitchell is the zoo's veterinarian. His children Nick and Susie love being with all the animals.

Release Date1985-07-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count26

Vote Count1

All the Rivers Run

Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.

Release Date1983-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count9

The Henderson Kids II

A family relocates to the harbourside suburb of Westport after years of traveling in search of the perfect business and environment. However, the children's newfound stability may be short-lived. When Tamara and Steve Henderson left Haven Bay, they came to the city with their father, Wal. For the last two years they've been travelling, settling for a short time and moving on. Wal's been looking for the right business to buy into, and the right environment to live in. He's found it in Westport, a tough yet picturesque harbourside suburb. The Henderson kids have found a more settled life - or have they?

Release Date1987-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count24

Vote Count1

Cop Shop

Cop Shop is a long running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for eight seasons between 1977 and 1984. It comprised 582 one hour episodes.

Release Date1977-11-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count26

Vote Count1

The Far Country

Just after the second world war, an English girl from a sheltered background, Jennifer Morton, falls in love with Czech migrant Carl Zlinter. But Carl is not all that he seems and even Jennifer is not privy to his dark secret.

Release Date1987-03-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count2

Fortress

After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

Release Date1985-11-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count91

I Live With Me Dad

Peter Hehir plays full-time loser Sid McCall, professional vagrant and alcoholic on the skids. Haydon Samuels is his young son Christopher who lives with him. At the insistence of those who seek to help, child welfare workers are called-in to retrieve the lad from what authorities classify as "inappropriate living conditions." Someone seems to have overlooked the fact that Christopher does not consider his plight as distressing however and with each visit to the home, all the social workers can get in the way of co-operation, is Christopher's stock-standard reply to their questions..."I live with me dad!"

Release Date1985-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer