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TV ratings: Mini-series all time

All-time top-rating Australian mini-series on television, 1978–2009

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Five-city metro average (rating over 6): 2001–2009
Sydney and Melbourne (rating 25 and over): 1978–2000

2001–2009

Rank	Title	Year	Network	Total people (‘000)	Rating¹
1	Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (Episode 1)	2009	9	2,582	17.7
2	Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities	2009	9	2,127	14.6
3	My Brother Jack (Part 1)	2001	10	1,745	13.3
4	Underbelly	2008	9	1,707	12.0
5	Jessica (Part 1)	2004	10	1,583	11.6
6	On the Beach (Part 1)	2001	7	1,526	11.6
7	Jessica (Part 2)	2004	10	1,570	11.5
8	Mary Bryant (Part 1)	2005	10	1,562	11.3
9	Sea Patrol	2007	9	1,523	10.8
10	Changi (Part 1)	2001	ABC	1,286	9.8
11	Sea Patrol II	2008	9	1,374	9.7
12	Mary Bryant (Part 2)	2005	10	1,328	9.6
13	After the Deluge (Part 1)	2003	10	1,298	9.6
14	Do or Die (Part 1) (Australia/UK)	2001	7	1,235	9.4
15	Sea Patrol	2009	9	1,332	9.1
16	Sea Patrol (Episode 1)	2009	9	1,284	8.8
17	The Farm (Part 1)	2001	ABC	1,157	8.8
18	Sea Patrol (Episode 2)	2009	9	1,244	8.5
19	The Shark Net (Part 1)	2003	ABC	1,051	7.8
20	After the Deluge (Part 2)	2003	10	1,024	7.6

Source: OzTAM; compiled by Screen Australia.

Notes:
All people, five-city metro average, 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2009.
Ranked by rating. Programs with the same rating are ranked by unrounded total number of people viewing, if known.
Although not identified as such, the screening listed may be a repeat screening of the program. Repeats are indicated when known.
Any comparison of ratings data should take into account that different methodology was used to compile top-program lists before January 2005 and that a different audience measurement system applied before January 2001. See About the data for more information, including definitions of terms.
ABC’s main channel was renamed ABC1 in February 2008.
1. Rating is equal to TARP (Target Audience Rating Point).

1978–2000

Sydney television | Melbourne television

Sydney television
		Date	Network	Rating¹
1	A Town Like Alice	13 Jul 81	7	48
2	Against the Wind	11 Sep 78	7	47
3	Return to Eden	27 Sep 83	10	41
4	The Dismissal	6 Mar 83	10	40
4=	The Shiralee	26 Jun 88	7	40
6	The Last Frontier	3 Nov 86	10	39
7	All the Rivers Run	10 Oct 83	7	38
7=	Anzacs	27 Oct 85	9	38
7=	Bangkok Hilton	5 Nov 89	10	38
7=	Bodyline	16 Jul 84	10	38
11	For the Term of His Natural Life	23 May 83	9	37
11=	Vietnam	23 Feb 87	10	37
13	Day of the Roses	19 Oct 98	10	32
14	The Challenge	14 Oct 86	9	31
14=	Cyclone Tracy	5 Nov 86	9	31
14=	Dirtwater Dynasty	10 Apr 88	10	31
14=	Fields of Fire 1	14 Jun 87	9	31
14=	A Fortunate Life	9 Mar 86	9	31
19	Shout! The Johnny O’Keefe Story	2 Apr 86	7	30
19=	Waterfront	20 Mar 84	10	30
21	Kangaroo Palace	25 May 97	7	29
22	The Cowra Breakout (1)	4 Mar 85	10	28
22=	The Flying Doctors (1)	29 Apr 85	9	28
22=	The Potato Factory	18 Jul 00	7	28
25	Alice to Nowhere	2 Jul 86	10	27
25=	Brides of Christ	4 Sep 91	2	27
25=	The Far Country	4 Mar 87	7	27
25=	Sara Dane	8 Jun 82	10	27
25=	Sword of Honour	20 Oct 86	7	27
30	Fields of Fire 2	22 May 88	9	26
30=	Fire	14 Feb 95	7	26
30=	The Harp in the South	11 May 87	10	26
30=	The Leaving of Liverpool	8 Jul 92	2	26
30=	My Brother Tom	22 Sep 86	10	26
30=	Nancy Wake	4 Nov 87	7	26
36	The Battlers	14 Jul 94	7	25
36=	The Dunera Boys	3 Oct 85	10	25
36=	Golden Fiddles	18 Aug 91	9	25
36=	Jackaroo	7 Oct 90	7	25
36=	The Last Bastion	8 Nov 84	10	25

Melbourne television
		Date	Network	Rating¹
1	All the Rivers Run	4 Oct 83	7	50
2	Return to Eden	27 Sep 83	10	48
3	For the Term of His Natural Life	23 May 83	9	45
4	A Town Like Alice	13 Jul 81	7	43
5	Anzacs	27 Oct 85	9	41
6	Bangkok Hilton	5 Nov 89	10	40
6=	Fields of Fire 1	14 Jun 87	9	40
6=	The Last Frontier	3 Nov 86	10	40
9	The Cowra Breakout (1)	4 Mar 85	10	39
10	Kangaroo Palace	28 May 97	7	38
11	Snowy	8 Sep 93	9	36
12	The Far Country	4 Mar 87	7	35
12=	The Shiralee	26 Jun 88	7	35
12=	Whose Baby?	30 Sep 86	7	35
15	The Last Outlaw	21 Oct 80	7	33
15=	The Potato Factory	17 Jul 00	7	33
17	The Challenge	14 Oct 86	9	32
17=	Cyclone Tracy	5 Nov 86	9	32
17=	Day of the Roses	18 Oct 98	10	32
17=	The Dismissal	6 Mar 83	10	32
17=	A Fortunate Life	9 Mar 86	9	32
22	Blue Heelers	21 Nov 95	7	31
22=	Fields of Fire 2	22 May 88	9	31
22=	Fire	25 Apr 95	7	31
22=	Golden Fiddles	18 Aug 91	9	31
22=	The Great Bookie Robbery	15 Sep 86	9	31
27	Brides of Christ	4 Sep 91	2	30
27=	The Flying Doctors (1)	29 Apr 85	9	30
27=	My Brother Tom	22 Sep 86	10	30
27=	Waterfront	20 Mar 84	10	30
31	Eureka Stockade	27 Mar 84	7	29
31=	Jackaroo	7 Oct 90	7	29
31=	Nancy Wake	4 Nov 87	7	29
31=	Vietnam	23 Feb 87	10	29
35	The Harp in the South	11 May 87	10	28
36	The Battlers	14 Jul 94	7	27
36=	Naked Under Capricorn	17 Sep 89	9	27
36=	Shout! The Johnny O’Keefe Story	2 Apr 86	7	27
39	Alice to Nowhere	2 Jul 86	10	26
39=	Sword of Honour	20 Oct 86	7	26
41	Banjo Paterson’s The Man from Snowy River (1)	6 Aug 95	9	25
41=	The Last Bastion	8 Nov 84	10	25
41=	Sara Dane	8 Jun 82	10	25

Source: AGB McNair ratings 1978–1990; ACNielsen ratings 1991–2000.

Notes:
Household viewing, 1 January to 31 December 1991–2000, survey periods only,1978–1990.
Includes only the highest-rating screening per title.
All programs screened at 8.30 pm except where indicated:
(1) 6.30 pm
Ratings figures have been rounded; titles have been ranked based on this rounded figure, with those of equal ranking listed alphabetically.
Any comparison of ratings data should take into account that different methodology was used to compile top-program lists before January 2005 and that a different audience measurement system applied before January 2001. See About the data for more information, including definitions of terms.
1. Rating is equal to TARP (Target Audience Rating Point).