Waterloo Station (TV series)

Waterloo Station
Genre Drama
Soap opera
Created by Reg Watson
Opening theme Tony Hatch
Country of origin Australia
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 40
Production company(s) Reg Grundy Organisation
Release
Original network Nine Network
Original release 2 February 1983 – 7 February 1984


Waterloo Station is a short-lived Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1983.[1]

Synopsis

Waterloo Station focused on two sisters, both married to policemen, and their adult children starting careers in the police force. The main locations were a police station, a police training academy in Sydney, and a large boarding house that provided accommodation for several characters.

Waterloo Station was an attempt by Grundy's to reproduce for Channel Nine the success of their earlier shows The Restless Years and The Young Doctors which focused on youth situations. Like Crawford Productions' successful police series Cop Shop,[2] Waterloo Station combined police procedural elements with domestic situations involving the police personnel and their families.

The series was recorded at the Eric Porter studios in North Sydney.

Cast

Others:- Ian Gilmour,[3] Eric Oldfield,[4] Nikki Coghill,[5] and Jon Ewing.[6]

Screening

The series was programmed against the popular new series Carson's Law in key markets including Melbourne, and achieved only mediocre ratings. It was cancelled after 40 episodes. Andrew Clarke, Danny Roberts and Sally Tayler all subsequently found greater success as regular cast members of another Grundy produced soap opera, Sons and Daughters.

After Waterloo Station, on 18 April 1983, Grundy launched Starting Out which featured youthful characters attempting to enter the medical profession. This series was similarly short-lived.

References

  1. ↑ Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, p. 345, at Google Books
  2. ↑ Peter Robson and Jennifer L Schulz (editors) A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV, p. 11, at Google Books
  3. ↑ Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, p. 182, at Google Books
  4. ↑ Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, p. 285, at Google Books
  5. ↑ Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, p. 95, at Google Books
  6. ↑ Albert Moran and Chris Keating The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television, p. 158, at Google Books
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