Best Australian action series
A curated collection of popular action series from Australia.
Territory (2024)
Territory (2024)
When the world's largest cattle station is left without a clear heir, rival factions descend as a fierce generational struggle upends the land's future.
Faraway Downs (2023)
Faraway Downs (2023)
The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover to protect her ranch.
Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988)
Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988)
Based on the life of Emma Eliza Coe, known as the "Queen of the South Seas", whose strength and cunning staved off the colonial struggle involving the United States, Great Britain, and Germany while she built her own empire. Emma’s father, the first consul in Samoa, taught his daughter at an early age the bitter truth about the fickleness of men.
Duncan's Thai Kitchen (2015)
Duncan's Thai Kitchen (2015)
Duncan is simultaneously a moderately good chef and in his personal delusion, believes he is the twin brother of Ethan Hunt living in modern day Thailand ridden with crime. However, this is mostly fantasy and Duncan spends most of his time trying to add Thai women to his harem luring them with an increasing amount of tattoos that he gets during the shows. A native of two island continents (Antarctica and Australia), Duncan has come to believe he was raised by a family of curry and Pad Thai. He sets up rogue kitchens throughout the country side taking over local food stalls and promoting his love of fish sauce, palm sugar, tamarind, and synthetic cocaine.
Black Panther (2010)
Black Panther (2010)
Deep in the heart of Africa lies Wakanda, an advanced and unconquerable civilization. A family of warrior kings possessing superior speed, strength and agility has governed this mysterious nation as long as time itself. The latest in this famed line is young King T’Challa, the great hero known worldwide as the Black Panther. Now, outsiders once again threaten to invade and plunder Wakanda.
Ultraman Great (1990)
Ultraman Great (1990)
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Gudis. Suddenly a giant warrior, Ultraman Great, arrives and fights Goudes, but when Ultraman is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth where it mutates other creatures into monsters and awakens existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins UMA in order to help them battle the monsters.
Bloom (0)
Bloom (0)
Bloom is a mystery drama about the scarcity of time and the choices we make. Beyond the impulses of youth and the regrets of age lies a secret.One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth. It’s a gift powerful beyond wildest imaginings. A phenomenon so formidable that attempting to harness its potency means re-evaluating everything that’s important.It’s a miracle some will kill to keep secret.
Farscape (1999)
Farscape (1999)
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Mako: Island of Secrets (2013)
Mako: Island of Secrets (2013)
Real-life mermaids, Sirena, Nixie and Lyla are part of a mermaid pod, which lives in the waters of Mako Island. As young members of the pod, it is their job to protect the Moon Pool and guard it from trespassers. But on the night of a full moon, the mischievous mermaid girls neglect their duties. Sixteen-year-old land-dweller Zac enters the Moon Pool and forms a special connection with Mako. Zac is given a fish-like tail and amazing powers. The mermaid pod is forced to leave Mako, leaving behind the three mermaid girls, cast out of the pod. They know there's only one way they will be allowed to rejoin the pod: They must get legs, venture onto land and take back Zac's powers – or risk being outcasts forever.
Nowhere Boys (2013)
Nowhere Boys (2013)
Four teenage boys get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.
Murder Drones (2021)
The Big Lez Show (2012)
The Big Lez Show (2012)
Big Lez is a humanoid alien who lives in Brown Town, Australia, with his adopted son Quinton. Lez spends most of his time hanging out with his next-door neighbours Sassy and Donny, two mysterious and occasionally omniscient sasquatches, and Mike "Nolesy" Nolan, a self-employed jack of all trades. The group's activities range from casual smoke sessions to grand misadventures, eventually landing them in a bloody war against Lez's father and his army of monstrous Choomahs.
Ocean Girl (1994)
Ocean Girl (1994)
Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the friendships she develops with the inhabitants of an underwater research facility called ORCA. The show is an example of deep ecology science fiction.
BeastMaster (1999)
BeastMaster (1999)
BeastMaster chronicles the adventures of Dar, the last surviving male of the storied Sula tribe, who is blessed with the ability to communicate telepathically with the animals of his ancient world. Also endowed with the strength, courage and fighting skills of a great warrior, he uses his gifts to defend all living creatures oppressed by the forces of evil.
Sassy the Sasquatch (2022)
Sassy the Sasquatch (2022)
From the creator of The Big Lez Show, Sassy the Sasquatch follows the adventures of Lez’s former neighbor Sassy as he travels across space and time, making old and new friends in a spiritual quest of self-discovery.
The Girl from Tomorrow (1992)
The Girl from Tomorrow (1992)
Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.
Crazy Fun Park (2022)
Crazy Fun Park (2022)
A shy teen wants desperately to fit in and enjoy his high school years if only his dead best friend and a posse of rotting ghouls would stop sabotaging him at every turn.
Dead Gorgeous (2010)
Dead Gorgeous (2010)
Dead Gorgeous is an Australian–British children's television show which premiered on 15 March 2010 in Britain and 5 April 2010 in Australia. It is produced by Burberry Productions and Coolabi Productions with funding from Screen Australia. It was previously known as Dead Normal, however the name was changed. It was thought that Dead Gorgeous would air a "Halloween Special", though this was a publicity stunt.
The Donny & Clarence Show (2024)
The Donny & Clarence Show (2024)
The six part mini-series documenting Clarences attempts to make videos for his new Channel.
SheZow (2012)
SheZow (2012)
Shezow is an Australian-Canadian animated television series created by Obie Scott Wade. The series' protagonist, a 12 year old boy named Guy Hamdon, discovers the superheroine Shezow's power ring and puts it on. While the power ring does grant him super powers, it was only meant to be worn by a woman. Guy takes on the appearance of a female super hero and with the help of his sister, Kelly, and best friend, Maz, he protects the city of Megadale from supervillains and criminals.
Thunderstone (1999)
Thunderstone (1999)
Welcome to North Col and to the story about the secret of Thunderstone Thunderstone is set in the year 2020 and centers on the life of 15 year old Noah Daniels. Fascinated with the Holodeck Noah finds himself in trouble when he arrives in a world which has animals (something that his world didn't). Investigating is fun, until he gets caught and has to get back home.
Mirror, Mirror (1995)
Mirror, Mirror (1995)
When Jo Tiegan is given an oval-shaped mirror, as a gift, by the elderly owner of an antique shop, she is amazed to see another girl's image in the mirror instead of her own reflection. It is also quite obvious that the other girl can see her just as clearly. Jo (from the 1990's) and 'the girl in the mirror', Louisa Iredale (from 1919), later accidently find that they can also travel to each other's times through the mirror - following upon which discovery a relentless sequence of events is set in motion.
We Were Tomorrow (2024)
We Were Tomorrow (2024)
Evelyn and Noah navigate through three lifetimes to unearth the truth about their destiny with Warrick and Siena, but their efforts to flee the dying world become complicated when Cain, an immortal, decides to hunt them down.
Pirate Islands (2003)
Pirate Islands (2003)
A rip-roaring fantasy adventure, Pirate Islands sees 15-year old Kate and her younger brother and sister trapped inside a computer game set on an island controlled by swashbuckling pirates. They soon discover that the only way home is to finish the game-by beating the pirates and the castaway children to the hidden pirate treasure.
Monster Beach (2020)
Monster Beach (2020)
Follows the frightfully funny adventures of surf-siblings Jan and Dean as they enjoy an endless summer vacation on the island of Iki-Iki hanging out with their laidback uncle and a bunch of mischievous, thrill-seeking monsters.
Stormworld (2009)
Stormworld (2009)
Jason and Lee are two buddies living normal lives in Vancouver. When Jason’s dad gets a new boat, the boys decide to take it for a joyride and get caught in a swirling vortex that brings them to Stormworld. This new world is a parallel universe with three suns, mind-distorting storms, and wild coastlines, surrounded by a hostile environment where drinkable water is precious and food is limited.The boys are rescued by Flees and her pedantic companion, Ogee. Flees has one of the few serviceable watercrafts on Stormworld and grudgingly volunteers to take the new visitors to a small community trying to create civilization and order against the forces of nature and scavengers. One thing is constant for Jason, Lee, and almost everyone on Stormworld: the search for the way home.
Mirror, Mirror II (1997)
Mirror, Mirror II (1997)
Two families - De Lutrelles and McFarlanes. They both live in the same house, but 130 years apart in time. De Lutrelle's: father Gervaise, mother Violette and daughter Constance. In their age, around the house were goldfields. Family emigrated from France with the remnants of their wealth, and hoping to find gold so they would restore their fortunes. McFarlan's: father Doug, mother Jenny who decided to get in a new business: eco-tourism. Guests will stay with Doug and his family - second wife Jenny, stepson Fergus, daughter Mandy, and sister-in-law Lily, who maked troubles wherever she goes! Doug has also another son, Daniel. When the series begins, Daniel decides he wants to meet the father who left him and his mother Caroline when he was just a baby. He invites himself to stay for the holidays and, with the help of the mirror, he changes everyone's life, his own included.
Legends of Ileydria (0)
Legends of Ileydria (0)
Mairi joins Elric as they venture through the ancient land of Ileydria. Their quest begins when Mairi receives a prophetic vision of an impending clash between the forces of good and evil: The Everlight and The Obsidian Shade. Mairi, a young former Obsidian Shade warrior, and Elric, a skilled warrior of the Everlight, join forces to prepare for this ultimate battle.
Return to Jupiter (1997)
Return to Jupiter (1997)
Return to Jupiter was an Australian television series, a 13-part follow-up to Escape from Jupiter, It aired in Australia from 23 March 1997 to 15 June 1997.
The New Adventures of Ocean Girl (2000)
The New Adventures of Ocean Girl (2000)
The New Adventures of Ocean Girl is an Australian animated television series inspired by the 1994 series Ocean Girl.