Bellbird (TV series)

Bellbird
Genre
Created byBarbara Vernon
Starring
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons10
No. of episodes1,562
Production
Running time15 minutes (excluding commercial)
Original release
NetworkABC
Release28 August 1967 (1967-08-28) –
23 December 1977 (1977-12-23)
Related
Country Life (film version)
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Bellbird is an Australian soap opera serial broadcast by the ABC and written and created by Barbara Vernon, it screened for 10 seasons between 1967 and 1977, with the series centring around the residents of the small fictional Victorian rural township of the series title.[1]

Bellbird has the distinction of being the longest-running soap opera/serial ever produced by the ABC. It ended the same year as commercial broadcast series Number 96 and The Box, which had run for six and four years respectively.[2]

  1. ^ "Bellbird". Aussie Soap Archive. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Prisoner stars before Prisoner". Television.AU. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2020.