Rush (1974 TV series)

[2] The story revolves mainly round Edmond Fitzalan (played by Brendon Lunney), a young and inexperienced Gold Commissioner who is stationed at Crocker's Gully.

[2] The main cast the first year featured Waters, Olivia Hamnett, Brendon Lunney, Alwyn Kurts, Peter Flett, Max Meldrum.

John Waters, playing the part of Sgt Mackellar, co-starred with French actor Alain Doutey as Constable Emile Bizard.

Screenwriter Colin Free won the 1977 Logie Award for Best Drama Script, and the 1977 Australian Writer's Guild (AWGIE) for Best TV series episode.

The opening sequence of the theme has some concurrence with British folk song Ten Thousand Miles Away The original television series has not been commercially released, because the talent was contracted for broadcast rights only.

[citation needed] A recurring segment in the first season of the ABC comedy program The Late Show (1992) was a parody-overdub of Rush titled The Olden Days.