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Title |
Original airdate |
Production code |
# |
Overall Total |
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"One Big Family" |
July 24, 1995 |
FR201 |
1 |
14 |
| Brian is in a meeting with Caville, and is fired from Frontline due to poor performance, and the executive producer of Sunday Forum, Ed, is installed temporarily. Emma works hard, hoping to be promoted to executive producer, but is hardly considered, The Frontline team finds two stories about a murder and a kidnapping, with no likely connection, and decides to merge the two together claiming that there is a serial killer. This is a deliberate ploy to scare the audience, as Brian says that people watch Sam introducing himself at the end of the show. Also, Jan is organising the new network promotion for the new year. |
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"Workin' Class Man" |
July 31, 1995 |
FR202 |
2 |
15 |
| Facing a decline in lower income audiences, Mike changes his image so that he's a more down-to-earth guy. |
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"Heroes and Villains" |
August 7, 1995 |
FR203 |
3 |
16 |
| The Frontline team goes after a humble professor, who publishes a statistical analysis book which the media claims is racist (This is a direct parallel to a contemporary book The Bell Curve). The professor comes into the studio hoping to clear the matter, but Mike directly abuses him, inflaming the issue. The subplots however, show the Frontline team deliberately dividing people on racial grounds. |
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"Office Mole" |
August 14, 1995 |
FR204 |
4 |
17 |
| A Current Affair is creating stories which are nearly identical to Frontline's, Mike searches for the 'office mole' |
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"Basic Instincts" |
August 21, 1995 |
FR205 |
5 |
18 |
| Stu is driving home in a Frontline van, and records a man being brutally beaten up, but does not attempt to help. To avoid the question of whether or not he should have helped, Frontline broadcasts the story claiming it to have been handed in anonymously, but Stu is still left pondering the ethics of recording over not helping. When discovered, the Frontline team backs down, disciplining Stu by giving him 6 weeks paid leave; a way of not firing Stu and thus allowing him to sell his story elsewhere, but making it look like he had a harsh sentence. When he returns, he gladly resumes filming an event, not worrying about the ethics. |
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"Let the Children Play" |
August 28, 1995 |
FR206 |
6 |
19 |
| Frontline sets up a community service project, building a playground for disadvantaged inner-city youth. |
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"Keeping Up Appearances" |
September 4, 1995 |
FR207 |
7 |
20 |
| Mike appears on the front cover of a new gay magazine, and the publicity team make sure that Mike does not appear to have any homosexual links. After a series of stumbles, the issue is settled by faking a relationship between Mike and his friend Kimberly Davies. |
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"Divide the Community: Multiply The Ratings" |
September 11, 1995 |
FR208 |
8 |
21 |
| A distant Croatian relative of Domenica's calls the office, telling them about an attack they have planned on the Serbian Embassy. Marty, Stu and Jase go there and film the graphic scenes of the attack, but nobody in the office notified the police. Owning sole rights to the footage, they keep showing the footage on successive nights, hoping for a fight between the Croatians and the Serbs. They eventually run a forum entitled "Ethnic Warfare", where they publicly claim that they wish to resolve the issue, but indeed want the fight. The forum almost fails entirely, until Marty publicly blames the Serbs for the conflict, and a fight ensues. |
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"All Work and No Fame" |
September 18, 1995 |
FR209 |
9 |
22 |
| Please feel free to add a caption for this episode. |
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"Changing the Face of Current Affairs" |
September 25, 1995 |
FR210 |
10 |
23 |
| Due to poor performance, the show receives a consultant named Larry (Harry Shearer) who implements a series of changes to the way that Frontline works, attempting to make it look better, and make the office function more as a unit. Despite the ridiculousness of many of his changes, Sam lets them all go to air, including a commentary during an interview, which claims that a manager is "doing the rooting" for his female employee. (In America, this would mean that he's supporting her, but in Australia, "rooting" is a euphemism for sex.) The network is sued, Larry is fired, and Sam changes everything back as soon as possible. |
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"A Man of His Convictions" |
October 2, 1995 |
FR211 |
11 |
24 |
| Please feel free to add a caption for this episode. |
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"The Great Pretenders" |
October 9, 1995 |
FR212 |
12 |
25 |
| Please feel free to add a caption for this episode. |
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"Give 'em Enough Rope" |
October 16, 1995 |
FR213 |
13 |
26 |
| The network's financial backer is suspected of breaking the cross-media ownership laws, and wants to appear on Frontline to save his reputation, and in the interview at the end of the show, Mike tricks him into saying that he talked about the future of the company, thus breaking the law. It is not stated, but Sam was probably dismissed over this. |
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