Something in the Air (TV series)

Production companyBeyond Simpson Le MesurierOriginal releaseNetworkABC TVRelease17 January 2000 (2000-01-17) –
2 May 2002 (2002-05-02)

Something in the Air is an Australian television soap opera transmitted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2002. It was one of the first programs in Australia to be filmed in widescreen. It won the AACTA Award for Best Television Drama Series in 2001.

The series initially screened four episodes weekly, Monday to Thursday at 6:30 pm, and was a moderate success. Ratings began to drop after the show was moved to Saturday evenings, and was cut down to two episodes shown in a one-hour block. It later resumed its four-episode weekly run, but it was screened in a 6:00 pm timeslot, putting it up against the high-rating Seven and Nine news bulletins, and that ultimately led to its cancellation.^[1]

The series was repeated on the-then ABC2 from 11 February 2008.^[1]

• Eric Bana as Joe Sabatini (2000–01)
• Ray Barrett as Len Taylor
• Ulli Birvé as Helen Virtue
• Alan Brough as Warren Brown (2000)
• Danielle Carter as Sally Sabatini
• Vince Colosimo as Joe Sabatini (2001), replaced Eric Bana
• Kate Fitzpatrick as Julia Rutherford
• Frankie J. Holden as Stuart McGregor
• Melita Jurisic as Dr. Eva Petrovska
• Colin Moody as Tom Dooley
• Roger Oakley as Doug Rutherford
• Anne Phelan as Monica Taylor
• Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Ryan Cassidy
• Steve Adams as Father Brian
• Tony Bonner as Bill Mackay

• Arianthe Galani as Nanny Sophia
• Alan Hopgood as Bill Mackay
• Benjamin McNair as Ron Thomas (2 episodes)
• Brett Climo as Steve Saks (3 episodes)
• Carmen Duncan as Margaret Jenkins (3 episodes)
• Christine Stephen-Daly as Stephanie Bennett (4 episodes)
• Georgina Naidu as Ms Gibbs (1 episode)
• James Condon
• Jane Hall as Janine Baker (2 episodes)
• John McTernan as Young
• Mark Mitchell as Neville McGregor
• Martin Copping as Jimmy Hibberd (4 episodes)
• Michael Veitch as Ralph Dewey (3 episodes)
• Nicholas Bell as Michael Fox (5 episodes)
• Reg Gorman as Ken (4 episodes)
• Russell Kiefel as Tas (4 episodes)
• Samuel Johnson as Dermot Yates (7 episodes)
• Sophie Lee as Jennifer Leveson (4 episodes)
• Sullivan Stapleton as Wayne Taylor (4 episodes)
• Tommy Dysart
• Tara Morice as Candy Rogers

• Season 1:
  • Monday to Thursdays, 6:30pm (25 minutes x 160 episodes)
• Season 2:
  • Saturdays, 7:30pm (2 episodes in a 60 minute block; first 44 episodes only)
  • Monday to Thursdays, 6:00 pm (25 minutes x 68 episodes)
• Season 3:
  • Monday to Thursdays, 6:00 pm (25 minutes x 48 episodes)

• Official Website
• Australian Television Information Archive
• Something in the Air at the National Film and Sound Archive
• Something in the Air at IMDb