Motel (TV series)

Motel
GenreSoap opera
Serial
Created byJames Workman
Written byCreswick Jenkinson
Richard Lane
James Workman
Eleanor White
StarringTony Bazell
Jill Forster
Noel Trevarthen
Enid Lorimer
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes135
Production
Running time30 minutes (4 times weekly)
Original release
NetworkATN-7
Release27 May 1968 (1968-05-27) –
1969 (1969)
Related

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

Production

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

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

  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.