Our House (Australian TV series)


Our House was an Australian lifestyle and home renovation factual television series aired on Nine Network from 1993 until 2001. It was presented by musician and former Skyhooks band member front man Shirley Strachan, Reg Livermore, Rebecca Gilling, Tracey Dale, Suzie Wilks, Tara Dennis and Peter Harris. Strachan had previously fronted a children's TV program, Shirl's Neighbourhood.

Death of Shirley Strachan and Cancellation

On the 29th August 2001, Shirley Strachan died in a helicopter accident. On a solo flight near Mount Archer, Queensland in clear weather and inexplicably off the course planned by his instructor, Strachan encountered mountain turbulence which caused the rotor of his Bell 47G to sever the tailboom, crashing the helicopter onto a mountain slope.
He was farewelled by family, friends and fans today in a ceremony at Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on the 6th of September, followed by a cremation ceremony and his ashes were scattered in the sea by his wife, Sue, following a beachside funeral.
The final episode of Our House that was themed as a Christmas Special in late 2001 to pay tribute to Shirley.
In late 2001, Australian TV network Nine using their corporate site on Our House to broadcast new episodes in 2002. But, nowadays, this did not materialized and the show Our House was not mentioned within later corporate briefs and due to Shirl's death.