The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.
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Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Press Conference | 1998-08-17 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Athletics Schedule | 1998-08-20 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Funding | 1998-08-27 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Robbo and the 100 Metres | 1998-09-03 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Past Sports Stars and Gender | 1998-09-10 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Millennium Bug | 1998-09-17 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Dead Man | 1998-09-24 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Rural and Environment | 1998-10-01 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | J'Accuse | 1998-10-08 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | A Management Course | 1998-10-15 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | A Conflict of Interest | 1998-10-22 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Horse and Dream Team | 1998-10-29 | 30 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | Transport! | 1998-11-05 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | In the Public Interest | 2000-06-19 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Talking to the Troops | 2000-06-26 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Reconciliation | 2000-07-03 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | IOC Man | 2000-07-10 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Inquiry | 2000-07-17 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | Pommy Visitor | 2000-07-24 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Immigration | 2000-07-31 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Job Search | 2000-08-07 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Strike | 2000-08-14 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Solar | 2000-08-21 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 11 | Sponsorship and Media Discontent | 2000-08-28 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 12 | Four Corners | 2000-09-04 | 30 min |
Season 2 | Episode 13 | The End | 2000-09-11 | 30 min |