Motel (TV series)

1968 Australian TV series or program

Motel

Genre| Soap opera
Serial
Created by| James Workman
Written by| Creswick Jenkinson
Richard Lane
James Workman
Eleanor White
Starring| Tony Bazell
Jill Forster
Noel Trevarthen
Enid Lorimer
Country of origin| Australia
Original language| English
No. of episodes| 135
Production
Running time| 30 minutes (4 times weekly)
Original release
Network| ATN-7
Release| 27 May 1968 (1968-05-27) –
1969 (1969)
Related

* The Story of Peter Grey
* Similar elements to British serial Crossroads

Motel is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Seven Network's ATN-7 studios from 1968 to 1969.

Motel, like British serial Crossroads dealt with a family who ran a motel. In this case the Gillian family running the fictional Greenfields Motel.

## Selected cast

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* Tony Bazell \- Mark Jefferies
* Jack Thompson \- Bill Burke
* Jill Forster\- Gaye Gillian
* Enid Lorimer \- Bunty Creighton
* Brian James \- Paul Drennan
* Ross Higgins[citation needed] \- Reverent Larcombe
* Gregory Ross \- Chris Gillian
* Noel Trevarthen \- Rod Gillian

## Production

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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 135 episodes. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.[1]

## Reception

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According to Richard Lane, who worked on the series as a writer, the series was very successful as a day time program, which was how it was conceived. But when Channel Seven management "became over enthusiastic and repeated it at nighttime it was a disaster."[2]

## Notes

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1. ^ Moran, Albert. Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, Allen & Unwin, 1993. ISBN 0-642-18462-3 p 299
2. ^ Lane, Richard (2000). The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama Volume 2. National Film and Sound Archive. p. 102.

## External links

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* Motel at the National Film and Sound Archive
* Motel at IMDb
* Clip from Show at YouTube

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