The Games - Season 2 - Eps 9: Strike
The Olympics offer Australia an opportunity not just to showcase our wonderful country and a range of endangered marsupials. The event will also bring to this country an international Cultural Festival featuring the very best in the visual arts, music and dance. There will also be some sport. The Games team must try to avoid major industrial action which could ruin the impending Olympics.
About The Games
Title: The Games
First Air Date: 1998-08-17
Last Air Date: 2000-09-11
Status: Ended
Rating: 7/10 (from 2 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 26
Network: ABC TV
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.
Cast
John Clarke
John
Bryan Dawe
Bryan
Gina Riley
Gina
