Primetime

Synopsis

Prime Time explores the behind-the-scenes drama and humour of Lockhart Productions, a Television Production Company which produces a one-hour mid-week current affairs programme for a national television network. It follows the working lives, private lives, successes and failures of the people who work on the program “Assignment”, both in front and behind the cameras. David Lockhart is the sharp and aggressiveinterviewer renowned for his dynamic approach. He heads the team both on and off-air. Lockhart is the presenter of “Assignment”, as well as both producing and packaging the programme for the Five Network.

The characters who work at Lockhart Productions are a diverse group - as in any working situation. There is an intriguing mixture of those whose ambition and drive are tempered by their vulnerability and insecurity, and others whose carefree approach is underlined by a fundamental concern. When all are thrown together in the pressured, competitive atmosphere of Lockhart Productions, the results are usually dramatic, something moving and often comical.

Cast

DAVID LOCKHART … Chris Orchard
HARRY JONES … Tony Hawkins
KATE MacARTHUR … Nina Landis
JIM DONNEGAN … Peter Kowitz
STEPHEN LOCKHART … David Whitney
DIANA FIELDS … Julieanne White
CHARLES GARRETT … Peter Whitford
JOCELYN COLE … Katrina Foster
GEORGINA JONES … Sonja Tallis
JOHN BALENKO … John Hannan
BARTHOLOMEW “BART” JONES … Ben Mendelsohn SANDY LOCKHART … Jane Hall
CAROL FOSTER … Kathy Caswell
JAMIE … Totti Goldsmith

Production

60 X 1 hour Episode
Executive Producers: Hector Crawford, Ian Crawford & Terry Stapleton Producers: Graham Moore & Lex Van Os
Creator: Terry Stapleton
Writers: Terry Stapleton, Shane Brennan, Vince Moran, Howard Griffiths, Graham Hartley, David Phillips, Peter Schrek, Rick Maier, Michael Joshua

Drama Series produced in 1986
Televised on the Nine Network (a two hour week drama)