The Games(1998)
Comedy
First Air Date: 1998-08-17
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 7.7
Votes: 3
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 26
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 and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour 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.
Keywords
olympic gamesaustraliamockumentarysitcom
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Season 1
Episodes: 13E01
The Press Conference
Air Date: 1998-08-17
Barrie Cassidy analyses John, Bryan and Gina's performance at their recent press conference.
E02
Athletics Schedule
Air Date: 1998-08-24
Just when the administration and logistics team have got things running smoothly, sport rears its ugly head. John, Br...
E03
Funding
Air Date: 1998-08-31
Funding for the games becomes a problem. John and Gina review a video designed to promote Sydney as an easy town to g...
E04
Robbo and the 100 Metres
Air Date: 1998-09-07
Jasmine presents some marketing ideas to clear out some ""dead wood"", Robbo holds a press conference on the environm...
E05
Past Sports Stars and Gender
Air Date: 1998-09-14
The team wrestle with the Asian meltdown, the GST, an athlete who has had a sex-change and a troublesome seating plan...
E06
Millennium Bug
Air Date: 1998-09-21
Gina's voice recognition software is causing difficulties and John is having trouble with technology. The millennium ...
E07
Dead Man
Air Date: 1998-09-28
The swimming schedule has been disastrously modified at the last minute. Meanwhile, Gina and John are asked to babysi...
E08
Rural and Environment
Air Date: 1998-10-05
John attempts to explain the swimming schedule to the camera before going on Lateline to face the Spanish Athletics A...
E09
J'Accuse
Air Date: 1998-10-12
Gina tries to explain the disastrous effect a 100% effective anti-doping system would have on athletic attendance at ...
E10
A Management Course
Air Date: 1998-10-19
John, Bryan, and Gina are sent to a training exercise at the Grand Vistas Conference Centre in the Blue Mountains whe...
E11
A Conflict of Interest
Air Date: 1998-10-26
John tries to keep a Sydney businessman from gaining a seat on SOCOG. Plans to sell Games venues to American interest...
E12
Horse and Dream Team
Air Date: 1998-11-02
John plays hardball with the agent representing the American basketball team when the issue of special treatment is p...
E13
Transport!
Air Date: 1998-11-09
John discovers that the aquatic center's diving pool has been built in the wrong place, while Gina does some digging ...
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