"Arcade" - opening credits (1980)

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Uploaded by on Apr 15, 2009

One of the legendary failures of Aussie TV, "Arcade" was launched in early 1980. Set in a suburban shopping mall, the show's ratings were disastrous from the word "go", and it was removed from air rapidly.

It kicked off a long line of glorious Aussie drama failures - Punishment, Waterloo Station, Taurus Rising, Starting Out, Possession, Prime Time...

Theme song was sung by Doug Parkinson.

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  • Was it both this AND Skyways that had the young Sally Tayler in them, or just Skyways?

  • Neither, so far as I'm aware (apart maybe from single-episode guest shots) - Sally first came to notice in "Young Doctors" and "Waterloo Station".

    So far as I can tell, her FIRST appearance was in the first episode of "The Long Arm" back in 1970...

  • Oh I'm quite sure I remember seeing a publicity still of her in TV Week regarding Skyways...

    1970? She would have been about six?

  • Yep, she appeared in "The Long Arm" as a kid who discovers a dead body at Taronga Park Zoo.

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  • Sally Taylor was not in Skyways she was in The young Doctors for about the last 12 months of the series you maybe confusing her with Gaynor Martin(Wheatley) who played Tony Bonners daughter on Skyways coincedently Sally is the daughter of The Young Doctors Lyn James who played Dr Denhams secretary Helen Gordon who stayed for the entire run of The Young Doctors from 1976 till 1983!

  • i used to like the blonde with the big boobs , she rocked

  • Wow! I can't believe someone actually has this on video - and posted it here. Crap show, crap theme, crap intro sequence. God, even the premise of the show was crap.

    Thanks so much for posting this gem of bad Aussie TV!

  • And if it ever came out in the US, (which is unlikely) I would get it too, if anything. The taste of it that I saw on here was quite a hoot, and I enjoyed it.

  • Anyone know where this aerial shot was filmed? I'm thinking it's where the present-day Cremorne Hotel / office block is, on Military Rd Cremorne Sydney...anyone agree?

  • She was also in Sons and Daughters playing Samantha Morell

  • Actually, I just had a look at the 90 minute pilot - IT says "Network Ten presents" at the start!

  • This show lasted about as long as T-Shirt

  • i'm not aware of her ever being in Skyways.

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