Daily at Dawn

Daily at Dawn
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Gary Reilly Tony Sattler
Starring	Noeline Brown Paul Chubb Terry Bader Henri Szeps Julieanne Newbould Robert Hughes Theo Stephens
Theme music composer	Mike Perjanik
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producers	Gary Reilly Tony Sattler
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	RS Productions
Original release
Network	Seven Network
Release	3 February (1981-02-03) – 28 April 1981 (1981-04-28)

Daily at Dawn is an Australian sitcom that was first broadcast in 1981 on the Seven Network. The series was written and produced by Gary Reilly and Tony Sattler, who were also writers of popular Australian comedy series Kingswood Country and The Naked Vicar Show.

Synopsis

The series was set in the office of a metropolitan newspaper.

It was the first Australian comedy series to feature a regular gay character, Terry Bader as journalist Leslie Windrush.[1]

Cast

• Noeline Brown as Phil Maguire
• Paul Chubb as Russell Ducke
• Terry Bader as Leslie Windrush
• Henri Szeps as Joe Parker
• Julieanne Newbould as Kate Ashton
• Robert Hughes as Gil James
• Theo Stephens as Danny Mason
• Maggie Dence
• Michael Aitkens
• Vincent Gil

Reception

Television writer Albert Moran, in Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, wrote of the series that: "As against [Reilly and Sattler's] hit series Kingswood Country, which had worked so well as comedy not least because it had a crystal clear situation and very stereotyped and easily contrasted characters, Daily at Dawn had too many characters who were not sufficiently distinguished as types from each other, and too many normal types."[2]

References

1. Howes, Keith (February 1998). "Gays of Our Lives". Outrage (177): 38–49.
2. "Daily at Dawn". AustLit. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2024.

External links

• Daily at Dawn at IMDb