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Subject: Re: A tribute article to the Rats - Past and Present

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Date Posted: 13:29:22 08/17/01 Fri
In reply to: Rachel Williams 's message, "A tribute article to the Rats - Past and Present" on 23:42:12 08/16/01 Thu

Rachel,can you access that online? Do you have an addy?

>TV Guide ran a little tribute article for Water Rats
>here in New Zealand and anyone who has read it will
>have noticed the little repetition mistake. Those who
>haven't should grab a copy. The Index has the
>introduction "DEAD RATS: Water Rats is all over TV
>Guide pays tribute to an Aussie show that conquered
>New Zealand" (Awwww)
>There is a photo of:
>-Steve Bisely
>-Colin Friels
>-Colin Friels, Eric Thomson, Catherine McClements and
>Jay Laga'aia
>-Peter Benseley
>-Aaron Jeffery
>-Jay Laga'aia
>-Catherine McClements
>
>Because I am such a generous person (with some spare
>time) I have decided to write it up.
>
>THAT SINKING FEELING by Les Wilson
>
>Art has been reflecting life with Aussie poilice drama
>Water Rats.
>But ironically just as water rats did some serious
>diving into organized crime in Sydney, Network Nine
>pulled plug on the series with the final episode
>screening on TV2 on Thursday August 23rd.
>Organizd crime has been a blight on Austrlias biggest
>cities for decades. Water Rats has echoed those
>problems over seven tumultuous years. It has tackled
>plenty of gritty subjects from murder to money
>laudering. Water Rats has more than kept with th e
>pace of change and spearheaded television
>breakthroughs. These include making self-trained actor
>Aaron Perdesen the first Aboriginal to have a main
>strem role on TV. There were 177 episoes in the seven
>Water Rats series; some brought the odd tear from
>regular viewers (:::oh so true:::)others a hollow
>laugh but even when it swapped time slots and lost the
>plot it was still one of the grittiest dramas
>Australia ever produced. Inevitably, perhaps unfairly
>Rats has been compared with the Aussie police icon
>Blue Heelers out of the same Hal McElroy stable. Both
>had long spells in the Top 10 however the Heelers is
>powering on and Rats has got the chop.
>
>---So thats the first bit edited slightly as some was
>irrelevant, there are some mistakes but that is not my
>fault but the magazines. The next section was entitled
>- RATS MEMORABLE MOMENTS and was so great. A small
>magazine actually remembers all this, not just us.
>Here goes...
>
><> The hanky brigade was out in full blubber when Det
>Frank Holloway sailed off into the sunset in the
>special episode Tommorow Never Comes. It was written
>by Star Trek and Mission Impossible pen man Ted
>Roberts who wrote it in a weekend when he discovered
>Friels would be leaving the show earlier than expected
>due to cancer.
>
><> Goldie (Catherine McClements)dying in Jack
>christeys arms after being stabbed with a slice of
>glss in a random murder. (In real life she was being
>hounded by a fan)
>
><> Aaron Pedersen made Australian TV History when he
>became the first aborigine to get a regular slot in
>Water Rats. Aaron was born in Alice Springs and dubbed
>the Desert Rat.
>
><> Kiwi star Jay Lagai'aia made a real splash in Water
>Rats as Sen Con Tommy Tavita. He became an Aussie
>citizen during the series and startled interviewers
>when he told them he was heir to a cheiftainship in
>his home country of western samoa.
>
><> A second kiwi actor was Aaron Jeffery, a diver who
>is stabbed in the lung by a demented girlfriend while
>showering.
>
><>Shortest Stin: Handsome Rodger Corser partner of
>singer Christin Anu, appeared in four episode before
>the show folded. At the same time Anu's new show HAIR
>put together by expat Kiwi Harry M. Miller folded.
>
><> The only original cast members who saw it through
>are Peter Bensely, Toni Scanlan and Brett Partridge.
>
><> Sykes was also the only copper to wed on the series
>when he married Eva, who had adopted a baby.
>
>Well there you have it, a great tribute. I'm really
>going to miss Rats.
>
>-Rachel

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