Embassy (TV series)

Embassy
Genre	Drama
Written by	Shane Brennan
Directed by	Richard Sarell Kate Woods Chris Langman David Evans
Starring	Bryan Marshall Ria Yazaki Jim Holt Gerard Maguire Cecilia Trandang
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	39
Production
Location(s)	Melbourne and Rippon Lea, Victoria, Australia Suva, Fiji
Running time	50 minutes
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	1 January 1990 – 1 January 1992

Embassy is an Australian television serial originally broadcast by ABC Television from 1990 to 1992. Three series were produced with a total of 39 episodes. The program is set in the Australian embassy of a fictional South-East Asian country called Ragaan, located half-way up the Malay Peninsula, somewhere between Thailand and Malaysia. It features stories about Australian ambassadors and their staff.

Embassy was created by Grundy Television director Ian Bradley, producer of Prisoner, who first proposed the idea for a diplomatic series during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.

It was produced by ABC Television with assistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gareth Evans, was offered a cameo role. The script and story consultant was Garry Woodward, a former ambassador to Burma and China.

According to Woodward, the name Ragaan was 'a bastardisation' of Pagaan, the ancient capital of Burma. Producer Alan Hardy said the fictitious setting for the military dictatorship was 'based on about 20 countries'. 'It's an accurate representation of the lives of diplomats and how they have to deal with situations.'

The serial was filmed partly in Fiji.Suva was selected by producers as an ideal tropical shooting location for Port Victoria, the imaginary, run-down former British colonial capital of Ragaan.

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