All Together Now (1991 Australian TV series)

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All Together Now
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Stars (left to right) Steven Jacobs, Jane Hall, Jon English, Rebecca Gibney, Garry Who, Bruno Lucia
Genre Sitcom
Created by Pino Amenta, Philip Dalkin, John Powditch
Directed byPino Amenta (96) Kendal Flannagan (3)Andrew Friedman (2)
Starring Jon English
Rebecca Gibney
Steven Jacobs
Jane Hall
Garry Who
Bruno Lucia
Kerry Armstrong
Theme music composerJon English
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes101
Production
Executive producer Kris Noble
ProducerAlan Hardy
Production locations Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
EditorPhilip Reid
Running time25 minutes
Original release
Network Nine Network
Release22 January 1991 (1991-01-22) 
14 September 1993 (1993-09-14)

All Together Now was an Australian sitcom that was broadcast on Nine Network between 1991 and 1993. [1] [2] The premise involved an ageing rocker, played by Jon English trying to maintain his music career while living with his son and daughter. [1] [2] For an undetermined number of initial episodes filmed prior to public broadcast, the show title was "Rhythm and Blues" and had a different theme song. [1] [2]

Contents

Cast

Main

Recurring

Guests

Awards

At the 1992 Logie Awards, the show and its actors were nominated for four awards:

The show was also nominated at the 1993 Logie Awards, for Most Popular Comedy Program, as was Jon English for Most Popular Comedy Personality. [6]

Home Media

Series 2 is still currently available on DVD and The Complete Series is available on Umbrella Streaming Service and Amazon Prime Video.[ citation needed ]

TitleFormatEp #DiscsRegion 4 (Australia)Special FeaturesDistributors
All Together Now (Season 01)DVD2146 November 2013Goof ReelUmbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Season 02)DVD2345 March 2014Goof ReelUmbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Season 03)DVD2646 July 2016N/AUmbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Season 04)DVD3156 July 2016N/AUmbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Complete Series)DVD101174 July 2018N/AUmbrella Entertainment

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