| The Games | |
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| Created by | John Clarke Ross Stevenson |
| Written by | John Clarke Ross Stevenson |
| Directed by | Bruce Permezel |
| Starring | John Clarke Bryan Dawe Gina Riley Nicholas Bell |
| Composer | Jeremy Smith |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Denise Eriksen |
| Editor | Wayne Hyett |
| Running time | 26 minutes per episode |
| Production companies | ABC Television Beyond Television Productions (1998) |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC TV |
| Release | 17 August 1998 – 11 September 2000 |
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The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000.
The Games starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) and satirized corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behavior within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.