Michael Hirsh

Michael Hirsh is a Australian producer. In 1993, Hirsh and four of his friends formed the production company Frontline Television Productions (renamed Working Dog Productions in 1996).

Works

Thank God You're Here

Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced.

Release Date2006-04-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count59

Vote Count6

Sky Pirates

Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.

Release Date1986-01-16

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count14

The Dish

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.

Release Date2000-10-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count213

Utopia

Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.

Release Date2014-08-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count40

Vote Count37

A Slice of Life

Toby Morris enters hospital to remove a cyst from his hand. He wakes up to find not only has the cyst been removed but he's been given a vasectomy.

Release Date1983-07-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Funky Squad

Funky Squad was a short-lived 1995 Australian comedy television series which satirised 1970s-era U.S. police television dramas, such as The Mod Squad. Only 7 half-hour episodes were produced, which were broadcast on the ABC. Real television commercials from the 1970s were shown during the program's "commercial breaks". The show featured four "funky" undercover detectives: undetectable as police, given their "hipness". The conclusion of each episode was deliberately designed to be incredibly predictable: usually the perpetrator of the crime under investigation could be identified within the first few minutes of the episode.

Release Date1995-04-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Frontline

Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programmes and reporting. It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC TV in 1994, 1995 and 1997.

Release Date1994-05-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count39

Vote Count4

The Castle

The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives.

Release Date1997-04-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count218

Bargearse

Bargearse was spawn from the hit TV show, The Late Show (1992). It was originally titled Bluey (1976) and made in the 70's. It was then re-edited, re-recorded with new lines and given a new name.

Release Date1993-12-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Any Questions for Ben?

For 27-year-old Ben, life couldn't be better. A well paid job, friends, parties, girls and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several other ex-students including Alex and Jim in talking about their personal achievements, something goes wrong.

Release Date2012-02-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count21

The Hollowmen

Set in the offices of the Central Policy Unit, a special think tank is set up by the Prime Minister to help him in his most important task - getting re-elected.

Release Date2008-07-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count12

Vote Count4

Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures

Australia – a land as massive as it is vast. And when it comes to outback adventurers they don't come any better, bigger or more reckless than Russell Coight. Winner of the prestigious Ocker Award for services to khaki shorts, Russell takes us on a unique blend of over-the-top, off-road, outback, in-your-face Aussie Adventures!

Release Date2001-08-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count6

Nightmares

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.

Release Date1980-10-30

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count26

Russell Coight's Celebrity Challenge

In an effort to raise money for charity, adventurer Russell Coight decides to lead a group of celebrities on a trek across Australia - from east to west coast in just seven days.

Release Date2004-11-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4