Prime Time is an Australian soap opera drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that aired on the Nine Network in from January 1986 to January 1987. Prime Time was the last Australian soap produced with exterior location scenes shot on film and interior scenes shot on videotape. The series was not a popular success and was cancelled after sixty episodes.
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Premise
The series was set at a fictional television station, Channel 5, and dealt with the behind-the-scenes goings-on on the set of a current affairs series called Assignment.
Cast
Chris Orchard as David Lockhart
Anthony Hawkins as Harry Jones
Nina Landis as Kate Macarthur
Peter Kowitz as Jim Donnegan
David Whitney as Stephen Lockhart
Julianne White as Diana Fields
Peter Whitford as Charles Garrett
Gary Sweet as Craig Lawrence
Sonja Tallis as Georgina Jones
Tottie Goldsmith as Jamie
Katrina Foster as Jocelyn Cole
Ben Mendelsohn as Bart Jones
John Hannan as John Balenko
Jane Hall as Sandy Lockhart
Kathy Caswell as Carol Foster
Antonia Murphy as Kylie Garrett
Ross Newton as Danny Eilwood
Garry McDonald
Rachel Friend
Peter Phelps
Reception
In 2020, Fiona Byrne of the Herald Sun included Prime Time in her feature about "Truly terrible TV shows that flopped". Of the show, she stated: "Prime Time was a little watched, long-forgotten drama series which screened on Channel 9 for one season in 1986."