Avainsana Australia

1970-luvulla avaruusasema Skylab putosi maahan ja sen osia päätyi australialaisen syrjäkylän ihmisten pihojen koristeeksi. Muutama vuosikymmen myöhemmin yksi taivaalta tipahtanut säiliö syöpyy puhki vapauttaen koemielessä avaruuteen lähetetyn loissienieliön. Se on mutatoitunut erittäin agressiiviseksi ja leviämishaluiseksi. Tästä vielä pari vuosikymmentä myöhemmin, itsepalveluvaraston yövuorossa olevat nuoret ryhtyvät metsästämään epämääräisen hälytysäänen lähdettä. He havaitsevat, että heidän työpaikkansa alla on vanha, hylätty sotilastukikohta. He eivät tiedä, että sen uumenissa odottelee jälleen säiliöstään karannut tappaja.

Elokuvaklassikko kolmesta tyttökoulun oppilaasta ja heidän opettajastaan, jotka katoavat mystisesti huviretkellä kuuluisalle kalliomuodostelmalle Australian erämaassa ystävänpäivänä vuonna 1900.

Mad Maxin apokalyptinen tarina sijoittuu planeettamme syrjäisimpään kolkkaan, karulle aavikkoseudulle, jossa ihminen on ajettu hulluuden partaalle taistelemaan henkiinjäämisestään. Tässä maailmassa on kaksi kapinallista, jotka saattavat pystyä palauttamaan järjestyksen. Max on toiminnan ja harvojen sanojen mies, joka etsii rauhaa menetettyään vaimonsa ja lapsensa kaaoksen keskelle. Furiosa puolestaan on toiminnan nainen, joka uskoo selviävänsä, mikäli onnistuu matkaamaan halki aavikon synnyinseuduilleen.

Bea ja Ben näyttävät täydelliseltä parilta, mutta kuumien ensitreffien jälkeen jokin muuttaa suhteen jääkylmäksi. Kun he yllättäen kohtaavat uudelleen matkalla samoihin häihin Australiaan, he joutuvat toimimaan kuten ketkä tahansa kaksi kypsää aikuista: teeskentelemään olevansa pari.

Danny ja Sandy viettivät kesän yhdessä mutta eivät kuvitelleet tapaavansa toisiaan enää sen jälkeen. Yllätys onkin suuri, kun he huomaavat olevansa samassa koulussa. Voiko koulun pahiksen Dannyn ja kiltin Sandyn rakkaus kestää ympäristön paineet?

Raakalaismainen moottoripyöräjengi hallitsee synkän lähitulevaisuuden teitä. Viattomia siviilejä terrorisoiva jengi pitää virkavaltaa pilkkanaan, mutta tekee virheen aliarvioidessaan yhden poliisin: Max Rockatanskyn. Kun jengi ottaa kohteekseen Maxin parhaan ystävän ja perheen, Maxin väkivallantäyteinen kostoretki alkaa.

"Kaksi miestä ilmestyy paikalle. Yksi mies poistuu". Se on laki Bartertownin Thunderdome-areenalla. Mutta lainsäätäjä Aunty Entity lisää pian uuden lain. Älä suututa Maxia! Mad Max - Ukkosmyrsky -elokuvan pääosaa esittää Mel Gibson kolmatta kertaa sankarin nimiroolissa, joka haastaa ydintuhon jälkeisen tulevaisuuden barbaarit - ja tällä kertaa hänestä tulee kadonneiden lasten pelastaja.

Ydinsodan jälkeisessä Australiassa bensiini on kaikkein arvokkain hyödyke. Nahkaan sonnustautuva ex-motoristipoliisi Mad Max on menettänyt perheensä ja ajelee nyt pitkin autioita maanteitä. Hän kohtaa öljynjalostamoa hoitavan ihmisyhteisön, jota ahdistelee hurja moottoripyöräjengi. Lännensankaria muistuttava Mad Max valitsee puolensa ja ryhtyy jelppimään sorrettuja heikkoja.

Norsujen parissa kasvanut kamppailulajien mestari Kham lähtee Australiaan etsimään rikollisjengin sieppaamia norsuystäviään. Matkasta tulee varsinainen yhden miehen sota, kun Kham käy taistoon roistojoukkiota vastaan. Kaiken ratkaiseva lopullinen taistelu on käsillä...

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.

Putting the "real" back into reality television, Australian Story is an award-winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas — just authentic stories told entirely in people's own words.

Pacific Drive is an Australian television series The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American soap opera Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation.

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.

Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.

G.P. is an Australian television series produced by Roadshow, Coote & Carroll for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, with the series being made between 1989 and 1996.

Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.

When Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited.

They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.

Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy. The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members.

The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney.

Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.

It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.

The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.

Follows a family who live at Melbourne Zoo in Victoria, Australia. Doctor David Mitchell is the zoo's veterinarian. His children Nick and Susie love being with all the animals.

Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked. Both books were integrated as episodes in the TV series. The series dealt with the cases confronted by an unconventional team of homicide detectives, Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden.

The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite him.