Mercury is a 1996 Australian television series about the editors and reporters of the Sunday Mercury, a fictional Melbourne weekly paper. The series is notable for featuring Geoffrey Rush in a lead role, and originally aired on ABC for a single series of 13 hour-long episodes.

Cast

Geoffrey Rush as Bill Wyatt

Victoria Longley as Georgi Singer

Pamela Rabe as Clare Banister

David Roberts as Dave ‘Gibbo’ Gibson

Nicholas Hammond as Jack Koper

Jason Clarke as Nathan Cohen

Marta Dusseldorp as Lily-Ann Venables

Heather Mitchell as Erica Boyer

Alan Fletcher as Snow Dockerty

Robin Ramsay as Simon Hayes

John Flaus as Chocko

Robert Grubb as Ritchie Munro

Deidre Rubenstein as Steffi Petrakis

Anthony Hawkins

References

Television shows set in Melbourne

1996 Australian television series debuts

1996 Australian television series endings

Mercury (TV series)