Motel (TV series)

Motel is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Seven Network's ATN-7 studios from 1968 to 1969.

Motel
Genre	Soap opera Serial
Created by	James Workman
Written by	Creswick Jenkinson Richard Lane James Workman Eleanor White
Starring	Tony Bazell Jill Forster Noel Trevarthen Enid Lorimer
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of episodes	135
Production
Running time	30 minutes (4 times weekly)
Original release
Network	ATN-7
Release	27 May 1968 (1968-05-27) – 1969 (1969)
Related
The Story of Peter Grey Similar elements to British serial Crossroads

Motel, like British serial Crossroads dealt with a family who ran a motel. In this case the Gillian family running the fictional Greenfields Motel.

Selected cast

• Tony Bazell - Mark Jefferies
• Jack Thompson - Bill Burke
• Jill Forster- Gaye Gillian
• Enid Lorimer - Bunty Creighton
• Brian James - Paul Drennan
• Ross Higgins^{[citation needed]} - Reverent Larcombe
• Gregory Ross - Chris Gillian
• Noel Trevarthen - Rod Gillian

Production

The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 135 episodes. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.^[1]

Reception

According to Richard Lane, who worked on the series as a writer, the series was very successful as a day time program, which was how it was conceived. But when Channel Seven management "became over enthusiastic and repeated it at nighttime it was a disaster."^[2]