Pacific Drive (1996)
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Simone Buchanan
Laura Harris
Mark Constable
Adam Stephens
Joss McWilliam
Martin Harris
Grant Bowler
Garth Stephens
Lloyd Morris
Trey Devlin
Danielle Spencer
Callie Macrae
Libby Tanner
Zoe Marshall
Steve Harman
Luke Bowman
André Eikmeier
Rick Carlyle
Melissa Tkautz
Bethany Daniels
Christine Stephen-Daly
Amber Kingsley
Erik Thomson
Brett Barrett
Clodagh Crowe
Dior Shelby
Rebekah Elmaloglou
Liza Garland
Chris Haywood
Bill Garland
Virginia Hey
Margeaux Hayes
Peter Kowitz
Dr Josh Michaels
Darrin Klimek
Tim Browning
Mouche Phillips
PJ
Adrian Lee
Joel Ritchie
Brett Climo
Shane Ritchie
Rebecca McCauley
Samantha Daniels
Kate Raison
Georgina Ellis
Greg Coote
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Pacific Drive is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow in association with New World International for the Nine Network which screened for 390 episodes from 29 January 1996 to December 1997, when it concluded it was show in reruns being in a late night timeslot for years. It was also repeated (and edited to tone down its racier overtones) for a daytime slot on Nine while they lobbied (unsuccessfully) to the Australian Broadcasting Authority for a daytime drama to count towards their local drama quota points.
Despite getting 1.7 million viewers for its first episode at 9.30pm, within a few weeks the show was getting just 135,000 viewers in its regular 11pm timeslot. Most critics described it as rubbish but some changed their minds during the show's second season. 'The Sydney Morning Herald said it was "immeasurably improved in looks, acting and writing" while The Sunday Telegraph named it one of the 10 Best Shows on TV for 1997. The "final" episode was screened on 6 April 2000 before Nine realised a mistake had been made (when the first three episodes had been edited down into a punchier one hour premiere) so they eventually screened the last episode a year later as a one-off send-off. Had it aired without interruption, it would have taken just 18 months to complete its run instead of five years.