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Skyways is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series made by Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation.The company generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation....
 for the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
.

The series, which aired from 1979 to 1981, was set at the fictional Pacific International Airport and dealt with the lives of the pilots, airline staff and management team who worked there.

Skyways was mainly taped in a television studio where, in many interior-set scenes, Colour Separation Overlay created the illusion of a bustling airport with taxiing planes outside the window.






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Skyways is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series made by Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation.The company generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation....
 for the Seven Network
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
.

The series, which aired from 1979 to 1981, was set at the fictional Pacific International Airport and dealt with the lives of the pilots, airline staff and management team who worked there.

Skyways was mainly taped in a television studio where, in many interior-set scenes, Colour Separation Overlay created the illusion of a bustling airport with taxiing planes outside the window. Many of the exterior scenes were shot on location at Melbourne Airport
Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport , also known as Tullamarine Airport or the local colloquialism Tulla, is the primary airport List of airports in the Melbourne area and the List of the busiest airports in Australia....
.

The show's cast included Tony Bonner
Tony Bonner

Tony Bonner is an Australia television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner is best remembered by Australian audiences for his role as Jerry in the 1960's childrens' TV series, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo....
, Carmen Duncan
Carmen Duncan

Carmen Joan Duncan is an Australian actor.Carmen Duncan is known to Australian audiences as a character actress in films and on television. Australian television roles included several episodes of the Australian series Hunter and she appeared for several months in the evening soap opera Number 96 playing Helen Sheridan in 1973....
, Bruce Barry, Judy Morris
Judy Morris

Judy Morris is an Australian actor, film director and screenwriter, well known for the variety of roles she played in 54 different television shows and films, but most recently for co-writing a Musical film Epic film about the life of Emperor Penguins in Antarctica which became Happy Feet, Australia's largest Animation project to date....
, Deborah Coulls, Bartholomew John
Bartholomew John

Bartholomew John is an actor best known for his roles on television.He played Dr. Chris Piper in the Australian soap opera The Young Doctors from 1977 to 1979 followed by appearances in Skyways and Waterloo Station ....
, Tina Bursill
Tina Bursill

Tina Bursill is an actress usually seen on television playing sophisticated and coolly self-reliant women such as Louise Carter in Skyways and Sonia Stevens in Prisoner ....
, Brian James
Brian James (actor)

Brian James is an actor, best remembered for his roles on television.He began his TV career in the late 1950s as Dr. Geoffrey Thompson in the early medical drama Emergency ....
, Gerard Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy (actor)

Gerard Kennedy is an Australian actor and two-time Gold Logie winner. He is known for starring in classic Australian television shows Hunter , Division 4 and Against the Wind in the 1960s and 70s....
 and Kerry Armstrong
Kerry Armstrong

Kerry Michelle Armstrong is an Australian actor on film, television, and stage. She is one of only two actors to win two Australian Film Institute Awards in the same year....
. Bill Stalker
Bill Stalker

Bill Stalker was a New Zealand-Australian actor.Grew up in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand as the second of seven children to Bob and ZenaStalker....
 played head of airport security Peter Fanelli, an ex-detective. After Skyways ended Fanelli was moved to Cop Shop
Cop Shop

Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....
, while Brian James' character George Tibbet was transplanted to Holiday Island
Holiday Island (TV series)

Holiday Island is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network. The show aired twice weekly from 1981 to 1982, with the first episode going to air on June 17 1981....
.

Years before Neighbours
Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
 and stardom, Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 and Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan

Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. In the UK he has sold in excess of 3 million records, and his d?but album Ten Good Reasons was the highest selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million copies....
 appeared together in one episode as brother and sister.

An early storyline featured a lesbian flight attendant (Morris) unsuccessfully attempting to seduce a colleague (Coulls) who revealed she was heterosexual. Morris' character was soon afterwards stabbed to death in the shower as part of a murder-mystery storyline.

The soap did get screened in the UK on Astra Satellite channel Lifestyle
Lifestyle

Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives....
 during 1990. Screened at 1p.m Monday to Friday, despite its afternoon slot, many of the adult storylines were not removed for a daytime audience. Indeed, the lesbian serial killer storyline involving Judy Morris, where she is stabbed to death in a shower, was screened in full with no edits! The soap was also broadcast in Europe in 1985 on Sky Channel.

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