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| Jim Astley | .... | sound director (111 episodes, 1987-1994) |
| Paul Lehmann | .... | boom operator (77 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Trevor Buck | .... | boom operator / sound director (51 episodes, 1987-1991) |
| Phil Jones | .... | boom operator (42 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Catherine Gross | .... | boom operator (14 episodes, 1987-1994) |
| Colleen McNamara | .... | boom operator (13 episodes, 1988-1993) |
| David Masala | .... | boom operator (13 episodes, 1988-1991) |
| Peter Hunter | .... | boom operator (8 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Stephen Marshall | .... | boom operator (7 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Paul Blakeney | .... | boom operator (5 episodes, 1987-1988) |
| David Steel | .... | boom operator (5 episodes, 1987) |
| Robert Williams | .... | boom operator (5 episodes, 1987) |
| Mark Mitchell | .... | boom operator (4 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Sean Burnett | .... | boom operator (3 episodes, 1990-1991) |
| Anna Jakovich | .... | boom operator (3 episodes, 1991-1992) |
| Steve Ravich | .... | boom operator (3 episodes, 1993-1994) |
| Steve Errey | .... | sound director (2 episodes, 1987) |
| Brett Heath | .... | boom operator (2 episodes, 1989-1991) |
| Chris Schweers | .... | sound director (2 episodes, 1992) |
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| Russell Phegan | .... | lighting director / lighting assistant (103 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Steven Fisher | .... | camera operator (68 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Stephen Kearns | .... | camera operator (61 episodes, 1987-1992) |
| John Abbott | .... | camera operator (54 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| John De Ruvo | .... | camera operator (52 episodes, 1987-1990) |
| Jeff Greenwood | .... | lighting assistant / lighting director (52 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Andrew Short | .... | camera operator (38 episodes, 1988-1994) |
| Phil Betts | .... | camera operator (35 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Larry Chinchilla | .... | camera operator (35 episodes, 1988-1992) |
| Glenn Steer | .... | camera operator (32 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Peter Russell | .... | lighting assistant / lighting director (18 episodes, 1988-1994) |
| Peter Westley | .... | camera operator (16 episodes, 1987-1994) |
| David Wood | .... | lighting assistant / lighting director (15 episodes, 1987-1988) |
| Peter Carrete | .... | lighting assistant (13 episodes, 1987) |
| Troy Hampson | .... | lighting assistant (12 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| John Catt | .... | camera operator (10 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Ann Flett | .... | video tape operator (10 episodes, 1989) |
| Barry Armstrong | .... | camera operator (9 episodes, 1987-1988) |
| Ken Shipp | .... | camera operator (8 episodes, 1989) |
| Kym Schwartz | .... | camera operator (7 episodes, 1987-1994) |
| Gary Janson | .... | camera operator (5 episodes, 1987) |
| Martin Lee | .... | camera operator (5 episodes, 1987) |
| Neil Campbell | .... | camera operator (5 episodes, 1989-1991) |
| Bob Frankel | .... | camera operator (4 episodes, 1989-1993) |
| Michael Healey | .... | camera operator (4 episodes, 1990-1991) |
| Alan Strange | .... | camera operator (4 episodes, 1990-1991) |
| Andrew Gately | .... | camera operator (3 episodes, 1987) |
| Robert Cotterill | .... | lighting assistant (3 episodes, 1990-1993) |
| Doug Hampson | .... | camera operator (2 episodes, 1987) |
| Ben Godwin | .... | lighting assistant (2 episodes, 1988-1990) |
| Mitch Lane | .... | lighting assistant (2 episodes, 1988) |
| Peter Loney | .... | lighting assistant (2 episodes, 1988) |
| Nicholas Connell | .... | lighting assistant (2 episodes, 1990-1991) |
| Robert Thompson | .... | lighting assistant (2 episodes, 1992) |
| Dietrich Bock | .... | camera operator (2 episodes, 1993) |
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| Sarah Wilson | .... | vision mixer (40 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Tanya Djamin | .... | vision mixer (32 episodes, 1987) |
| Garry Burns | .... | editor: video tape (29 episodes, 1987) |
| Ronnie Hicks | .... | vision mixer (18 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Sarah Viles | .... | vision mixer (12 episodes, 1989) |
| Bob Nowland | .... | on-line editor (11 episodes, 1990-1994) |
| Tim Stone | .... | editor: video tape (6 episodes, 1987) |
| Jackie Casey | .... | vision mixer (6 episodes, 1990-1994) |
| Jenny Hughes | .... | editor: video tape (4 episodes, 1987) |
| Jenny Fulton | .... | vision mixer (4 episodes, 1990-1992) |
| Nicole McCarthy | .... | vision mixer (3 episodes, 1990-1993) |
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| Kym Goldsworthy | .... | audience warm-up (202 episodes, 1989-1994) |
| Jamie Stevens | .... | floor manager (104 episodes, 1987-1991) |
| Tom Cork | .... | senior stager / assistant floor manager (99 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Julie Hanna | .... | assistant to director (80 episodes, 1987-1989) |
| Patrick Barter | .... | technical director (60 episodes, 1987-1993) |
| Garry Burns | .... | series editor (55 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Kathy Lang | .... | assistant to producer (51 episodes, 1987-1988) |
| David Alley | .... | technical director (50 episodes, 1987-1994) |
| Maggie Powell | .... | assistant to director (18 episodes, 1989-1994) |
| Sally Brady | .... | assistant to director (13 episodes, 1987) |
| David Masala | .... | senior stager (13 episodes, 1987) |
| Ann Flett | .... | series editor (12 episodes, 1989-1990) |
| Joanna Booth | .... | series editor (7 episodes, 1991-1994) |
| Douglas Lam | .... | technical director (6 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Sofey Youssef | .... | publicist (6 episodes, 1991-1993) |
| Cath Roden | .... | floor manager (6 episodes, 1992-1994) |
| Les Taylor | .... | floor manager (5 episodes, 1987-1990) |
| Kathy Cannon | .... | script coordinator (4 episodes, 1989-1990) |
| Pip Spilsbury | .... | assistant to director (3 episodes, 1988) |
| John Powe | .... | assistant floor manager (3 episodes, 1993-1994) |
| Kate Kilpatrick | .... | assistant to director (2 episodes, 1987) |
| Kirsty Millar | .... | series editor (2 episodes, 1991) |
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As my title says, it started off quite well, but constant character changes and a general lack of material to work with effectively killed the show.
Personally the show started going awkward for me when Paul Smith was replaced as 'Simon' - Christopher Mayer was ok but he never quite made it for me. And this was right in the early seasons.
Anyway, aside from that, the show was pretty good until in the space of 1 season or so Debbie, Simon and Nudge (practically half the main cast) just disappeared and were replaced. The biggest problem here was not that they were replaced but rather their replacements were almost IDENTICAL to the earlier characters. Ben was Simon with a bit of Nudge thrown in. Arthur was also a bit of Nudge. Samantha was Debbie.
Needless to say that after this the show started going downhill quite rapidly. Even the replacement of Martin Kelly was for naught because Greg Russell was (surprise surprise) yet another identical replacement. If you're going to replace characters, please make them DIFFERENT. Making them practically identical to the originals only serves to remind us of how good the original cast was compared to the current one.
The only character that stayed with the show throughout was Betty (Jenny doesn't count because she was played by 2 different actresses, who both played her differently), which was pretty sad. Betty may have been funny at first but in the end all she did was mess up everything again and again and again. Was funny at first, but after a couple of years you want something else for a change.
In all, the series was enjoyable, but it's best years were 1986-1991 when the original cast (well at least most of it) was in.