The Games (Australian TV series)
| The Games | |
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| Created by |
John Clarke Ross Stevenson |
| Written by |
John Clarke Ross Stevenson |
| Directed by | Bruce Permezel |
| Starring |
John Clarke Bryan Dawe Gina Riley Nicholas Bell |
| Composer(s) | Jeremy Smith |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Denise Eriksen |
| Editor(s) | Wayne Hyett |
| Running time | 26 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) |
ABC Television Beyond Television Productions (1998) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC TV |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | stereo |
| Original release | 7 August 1998 – 11 September 2000 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000.
'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centered on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) and satirized corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behavior within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.
John Clarke played the "Head of Administration & Logistics", an undefined but important subsection of SOCOG. Clarke was apparently a former Olympic champion, but ducked the question whenever asked about which event. Gina Riley played the "Manager Marketing & Liaison" role, and Bryan Dawe played the "Manager Accounts, Budgeting & Finance" position. The series also featured actor Nicholas Bell as the conniving Secretary to the Minister for the Olympics, a foil for Clarke's character. He was a guest in the first series but was made a main cast member for Series 2.
Guest stars included John Farnham, Dave Graney, Frank Woodley, Barrie Cassidy, Maxine McKew, and actor Sam Neill.
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