Motel is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Seven Network's ATN-7 studios from 1968 to 1969.
Motel, like British serial Crossroads dealt with a family who ran a motel. In this case the Gillian family running the fictional Greenfields Motel.
Selected cast
Tony Bazell - Mark Jefferies
Jack Thompson - Bill Burke
Jill Forster- Gaye Gillian
Enid Lorimer - Bunty Creighton
Brian James - Paul Drennan
Ross Higgins - Reverent Larcombe
Gregory Ross - Chris Gillian
Noel Trevarthen - Rod Gillian
Production
The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 135 episodes. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.
Reception
According to Richard Lane, who worked on the series as a writer, the series was very successful as a day time program, which was how it was conceived. But when Channel Seven management "became over enthusiastic and repeated it at nighttime it was a disaster."