Skirts (TV series)


Skirts is an Australian television police drama broadcast on the Seven Network in 1990. Skirts was produced by Roger Le Mesurier and Roger Simpson. It was directed by Brendan Maher, Richard Sarell and Ian Gilmour. 40 episodes were produced over 3 Seasons in 1990 and The series Screened Between April and September 1990. The last episode aired was season 2, episode 12. the final 14 episodes were never aired by the Seven Netowrk.

Main cast

Recurring/semi-regular & Guest cast

Actor/actressCharacterRoleEpisodes
Francisco Antonio Seguin TexWelfare WorkerPilot Episode
Sue JonesJoanSenior Sergeant Pilot Episode
Maureen O'ShaughnessyConstablePilot Episode
Gary SweetTom WatersPauline Reardon BoyfriendPilot Episode & Episodes 1-3
Alice GarnerHanna White
Simon PalomaresBrad
Tim SullivanDetective
Nicola Quilter
Anne Phelan
Peter Hosking
Drew Tingwell
Geoffrey Baird

Production

Production on the Pilot Episode began in June 1989 in Melbourne, Victoria and The pilot episode was delivered to the Seven Network by August the same year.
Skirts first aired on Wednesday 18 April 1990 with Pilot feature length Episode and the first official episode was broadcast on Sunday 22 April 1990 on Channel 7.
Selected episodes of Skirts were again Broadcast in 1993 on the Seven Network in a late night time slot in the hope by Producer and creator Roger Simpson that the series might be revised and unfortunately that did not happen.

Series Overview

SeasonEpisodesFirst airedLast aired
113
213
313

Episode List

Pilot Episode

Season 1 (1990)

Season 2 (1990)

Due to low ratings of the previous episodes Channel 7 decided not to air any episodes from the 3rd season.

Home Media

DVD Release

Skirts currently isn't available on DVD. The copyright to Skirts is held by the producer of the show Roger Simpson. a few DVD distributors have looked at the series and would like to release the series. But unfortunately the costs are too high.
7PLUS Streaming Services

Channel 7's streaming service 7plus are looking into the series.