A long time ago there was an Australian WW2 series shown in England.
It was mainly about a couple of Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese mostly in jungle terrain.
I think one of the characters was called Erskin or something like that.

Anyone know what the series was called????

series? sounds really cool - the 1st thing that came to my mind was "Attack Force Z", but that was just 1 movie - not a series.

The only one i can remember was the Aussie series called the Sullivans that was set about W.W 2. Bloody load of rubbish that was, spoiling my days bunking off school :-) :-) :-) :-)

Hear hear!
Not a patch on Young Doctors, eh? :-)

Vic.
Are you thinking of a BBC series call "A Town Like Alice"?
Starring, I think Bryan Brown. About Aussie soldiers in a Japanese POW camp along with civilian prisoners. In Malaya, I think.
It was shown here in the States on our Public Broadcasting System.
There was also another BBC series called "Danger UXB" About British bomb disposal crews during and right after WW2. I forget who starred in that one.

The only one I could think of was Rat Patrol and that wasn't even in the Pacific...it was North Africa.

I do remember Attack Force Z ,Mel Gibson was also in that one wasn't he?

The only other Aussie focused war movies I can think of ( at the moment) is "Odd Angry Shot" ( I know an extra in it who is historian and an ex-Para) and AnZacs.

Wow I'm really off the topic here...sorry

Steve

Anthony Andrews plays Lt Ash. I'm watching it right now

Hi all,

Nah, it wasn't any of those. certainly not the Sulavans :-) Terrible program.

This series was about 35 years ago.
just realised how old I am. It only seems like yesterday.

There was combat in it more or less every week.

Where's all the Ausie members hiding? One of them must remember :-)

I 'think' I can recall the show you mean.
The title sequence showed 'our heroes' tearing round (then-contemporary, the series dating from the Seventies I guess...) Sydney in a 'ute' (that's pick-up truck to you USA types) made from either a cut down Chevy or a Ford V8.
The 'Special Commando' unit seemed to consist of only two active service personnel, but IIRC there was also an older CO who seemed a bit Blimp-ish but this outer bluster concealed a man of steel.
true to form, there was also a female secretary who provided the usual 'love' interest.
The combat sequences stand out for all the wrong reasons, like Sterling SMGs (with Sten magazines) employed in the Pacific in 1944 - whatever happened to the Owen gun?

IIRC the series was called 'The Raiders' and was very very loosely based on the antics of Z Force and associated units - so loosely as to be falling apart...

$0.02

acav out

After a bit of digging, I figured the series I'm thinking of was called **drum roll...** 'Spyforce' ..!

acav out

Hi Acav,

Thats it. I didn't recognise the title but I checked out your link.and the actors etc.

I used to like that program when I was young but I bet if I saw it now I may think differently.
Like so many old series you remember them as being great until you see them again and see how dated and poor they really were :-)

Vic