All Together Now (1991 Australian TV series)

"All Together Now (Australian TV series)" redirects here. For another series, see All Together Now (2018 Australian TV series).

All Together Now
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 by	Pino 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 composer	Jon English
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	101
Production
Executive producer	Kris Noble
Producer	Alan Hardy
Production locations	Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Editor	Philip Reid
Running time	25 minutes
Original release
Network	Nine Network
Release	22 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]

Cast

Main

• Jon English as Bobby Rivers^[3]
• Rebecca Gibney as Tracy Lawson (Eps 1–86)^[3]
• Steven Jacobs as Thomas Sumner^[3]
• Jane Hall as Anna Sumner^[3]
• Garry Who as Doug Stevens (Eps 1–76)^[3]
• Bruno Lucia as Wayne Lovett^[3]
• Kerry Armstrong as Beth Sumner (Eps 85–101)^[4]

Recurring

• Radha Mitchell as Jodie (6 episodes)

Guests

• Georgie Parker as Brenda Beanley (1 episode)
• Ian McFadyen as Simon Carpenter
• Kym Gyngell as Louie Little (1 episode)
• Mary-Anne Fahey as Rivka Carpenter (1 episode)
• Nadine Garner as Karen Moyer (1 episode)
• Tracy Mann as Jackie Hammond (1 episode)

Awards

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

• The show (Light Entertainment/Comedy Program)^[5]
• Rebecca Gibney (Most Popular Actress, and Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Female Performer)^[5]
• Jon English (Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Male Performer)^[5]

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]}

Title	Format	Ep #	Discs	Region 4 (Australia)	Special Features	Distributors
All Together Now (Season 01)	DVD	21	4	6 November 2013	Goof Reel	Umbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Season 02)	DVD	23	4	5 March 2014	Goof Reel	Umbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Season 03)	DVD	26	4	6 July 2016	N/A	Umbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Season 04)	DVD	31	5	6 July 2016	N/A	Umbrella Entertainment
All Together Now (Complete Series)	DVD	101	17	4 July 2018	N/A	Umbrella Entertainment

See also

• List of Nine Network programs
• List of Australian television series

References

1. Squires, Tony (21 January 1991). "The Noble art of comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 48. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
2. Cockington, James (31 August 1992). "Sitcom gets its laughs together". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 52. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
3. Sadler, Kevin (20 January 1991). "Who's in a name". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 159. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
4. Lawrence, Mark (13 May 1993). "Armstrong finds". The Age. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
5. "1992: March 8-14 - TV Week Logie Award nominations". Television.AU. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
6. "1993: March 21-27 - TV Week Logie Award nominations". Television.AU. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2023.

External links

• All Together Now at IMDb