Genre Drama
Soap Opera Opening theme Tony Hatch Original language(s) English First episode date 2 February 1983 Network Nine Network Number of episodes 52 | Created by Reg Watson Country of origin Australia No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 1984 Number of seasons 1 | |
Cast Ron Graham, Julianne White Similar The Restless Years, Sons and Daughters, Carson's Law, Glenview High, The Young Doctors | ||
Waterloo Station was a short-lived Australian television soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network in 1983.
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Synopsis
Waterloo Station focused on two sisters, both married to policemen, and their adult children starting careers in the police force. The main locations were a police station, a police training academy in Sydney, and a large boarding house that provided accommodation for several characters.
Waterloo Station was an attempt by Grundy's to reproduce for Channel Nine the success of their earlier shows The Restless Years and The Young Doctors which focused on youth situations. Like Crawford Productions' successful police series Cop Shop, Waterloo Station combined police procedural elements with domestic situations involving the police personnel and their families.
The series was recorded at the Eric Porter studios in North Sydney.
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The series was programmed against the popular new series Carson's Law in key markets including Melbourne, and achieved only mediocre ratings. It was cancelled after 40 episodes. Andrew Clarke, Danny Roberts and Sally Tayler all subsequently found greater success as regular cast members of another Grundy produced soap opera, Sons and Daughters.
After Waterloo Station, on 18 April 1983, Grundy launched Starting Out which featured youthful characters attempting to enter the medical profession. This series was similarly short-lived.