Motel (TV series)

Motel is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Seven Network's ATN-7 studios from 1968 to 1969. Motel, like British serial Crossroads dealt with a family who ran a motel. In this case the Gillian family running the fictional Greenfields Motel.

Selected cast

 * Tony Bazell - Mark Jefferies
 * Jack Thompson - Bill Burke
 * Jill Forster- Gaye Gillian
 * Enid Lorimer - Bunty Creighton
 * Brian James - Paul Drennan
 * Ross Higgins - Reverent Larcombe
 * Gregory Ross - Chris Gillian
 * Noel Trevarthen - Rod Gillian

Production
The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 135 episodes. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.

Reception
According to Richard Lane, who worked on the series as a writer, the series was very successful as a day time program, which was how it was conceived. But when Channel Seven management "became over enthusiastic and repeated it at nighttime it was a disaster."