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* 1923 – Reg Grundy, Australian television producer
A more recent Australian invention is the term " reginalds " to describe underpants ( referred to as " undies " in Australian slang ), from " Reg Grundies " after Reg Grundy, the Australian media tycoon.
The popularity of game shows in the United States was closely paralleled around the world ; Reg Grundy Organisation, for instance, would buy the international rights for American game shows and create detailed reproductions in other countries, especially in his native Australia.
Meanwhile in 1974 the Reg Grundy Organisation created its first soap opera, and significantly Australia's first teen soap opera, Class of ' 74.
Late that year they were replaced by such successful new shows as the Crawfords Produced Cop Shop ( 1977 – 1984 ) on Channel Seven, which was a meld of soap opera and police drama, and The Restless Years ( 1977 – 1981 ) on Channel Ten, which was another teen soap produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.
The Reg Grundy Organisation subsequently reached even higher levels of success with women's-prison drama Prisoner ( 1979 – 1986 ) on Network Ten, and melodramatic family saga Sons and Daughters ( 1981 – 1987 ) on the Seven Network.
Thereafter Channel Nine attempted many new soap operas, several produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, including Taurus Rising, Waterloo Station, Starting Out and Possession, along with Prime Time produced by Crawford's.
Both The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters were created and produced in Australia by the Reg Grundy Organisation.
Like many Australian game shows during the 1970s – 1990s ( mostly those done by Reg Grundy ) this version was remarkably similar to the American show right down to the set, " spinning box " opening, and " Get ready to match the stars!
All 758 episodes exist and were purchased by FremantleMedia, who also owns the Goodson-Todman and Reg Grundy libraries.
Class of ' 74 ( and later Class of ' 75 ) was a secondary school-based, daily soap opera produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and screened on the Seven Network in Australia starting March 1974.
It was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for Network Ten.
The series was created and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and started a week earlier than The Sullivans.
The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation in Australia, and aired on Network Ten, running 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986, after originally only devised as a 16 part mini-series.
As well as showing five back-to-back episodes ( 81 – 85, covering the failed jailbreak of terrorist Janet Dominquez ), it also featured a special edition of the quiz show 100 % ( incidentally, also a Reg Grundy production ), which featured three contestants who battled for the top prize and all 100 questions were about the Australian prison soap.
The original Australian sponsorship was also removed from the end credits – the picture would blank for a brief moment, before resuming at the Reg Grundy page, leading into the copyright page ; the song continued uninterrupted.
They were produced by Reg Grundy.
In addition to British programming UKTV has repeated Australian soap operas Sons and Daughters and Prisoner which were both produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation ( now owned by RTL ).
Many Goodson-Todman games were produced internationally, some under different titles, and were distributed by Reg Grundy Productions – Family Feud was known in the United Kingdom as Family Fortunes, and Card Sharks went under the title Play Your Cards Right.
* Reg Grundy ( 1923 –), Australian TV Producer
* Reg Grundy Organisation, an Australian television production company
The show was co-produced by Exposure Unlimited and Reg Grundy Productions.
Category: Television series by Reg Grundy Productions

Reg and Organisation
It was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.
In 1978, she joined the cast of the television series Prisoner ( known outside of Australia as Prisoner: Cell Block H ), which was produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation.
Sons and Daughters was a Logie Award winning Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation between 1981 and 1987.
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The Reg Grundy Organisation ( later the Grundy Organisation or just Grundys, then Grundy Television ) was an Australian television production company founded in 1959 by businessman Reg Grundy ( born Reginald Roy Grundy ).
Crawfords generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation, which specialized in quiz and game shows.
Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.

Reg and also
There is also a famous scene in which Reg gives a revolutionary speech asking, " What have the Romans ever done for us?
Blank Reg was played by W. Morgan Sheppard, one of only three cast members to also appear in the American-made series that followed.
The ghost later tries to influence Richard MacDuff, a former student of Reg and current employee of Gordon Way, who was also at the Coleridge reading.
Reg also discovers his time machine no longer functions, after having the telephone company repair the phone line to his quarters.
It was on his recommendation that Parnes went to see singer Tommy Hicks, whom he signed and renamed Tommy Steele, and Bart also suggested that Parnes see singer Reg Smith, who was then performing at the Condor Club.
Read tried using Cooper, who was also being employed as a source by one of Read's superior officers, as a trap for Ron and Reg, but they stayed away from him.
A letter to his mother Violet, sent from prison in 1968, also gives references to Monica ; " if they let me see Monica and put me with Reg, I could not ask for more.
In the mid-1950s he also worked for a time as an assistant to professional golfer Reg Knight at Wanstead Golf Club in East London.
Reg also supplied the iconic lead guitar in GANGgajang's 1985 hit The Sounds Of Then.
Post war players include Albert ( Shirt ) Hambelton, Reg Cook, Graham Farrar, Roger Tait, Ted Baker, Paul Ravalich Tawera Nikau ( Rangiriri ) and as of late Wairangi Koopu ( Taniwharau ) and also Lance Hohaia ( Taniwharau ).
There was also a series of Open Scandal and VTR models ( mostly of X Reg ) that were created in a bright yellow called Zest Yellow.
The end of the reign came in a year which marked the retirement of one of their greatest stars in Reg Gasnier but which also marked the first season played under the limited tackle rule, replacing the previous era ( since the code's 1908 inception ) of unlimited tackles.
The band was also host to a number of notable collaborations, including Leslie Feist, Sufjan Stevens, Final Fantasy, Gentleman Reg and Bob Wiseman.
A $ 50, 000 was also spent on a new 600-seat temporary stand between the Reg Hickey and Doug Wade stands.
He also ran for Mayor of Brandon in a by-election two years later, and finished third against Reg Atkinson in a close three-way contest.
He also finished second in the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1953, partnered by Reg Parnell.
On 28 June 1997, Channel 5 aired a special edition of the show during a special night of the cult Australian soap opera Prisoner: Cell Block H ( which incidentally is also a Reg Grundy Production ).
Ringo Starr's bass drum was used ; also featured were Jack Bruce from Cream, Graham Nash from The Hollies and Reg Dwight, later renaming himself Elton John.
Heather also talks about her relationship to Reg, who is undergoing fundamental changes due to the loss of both of his children.
A number of cast members, as well as crew members, also appeared in the preceding HBO miniseries The Corner including Clarke Peters, Reg E. Cathey, Lance Reddick, Corey Parker Robinson, Robert F. Chew and Delaney Williams.

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