E Street (TV series)

E Street
Genre	Soap opera crime drama
Created by	Forrest Redlich
Developed by	Forrest Redlich
Written by	David Allen John Banas David Boutland Tony Cavanaugh Tony Cole Michael Cove C M Covington Louise Crane Mary Dagmar Davies Wayne Doyle Grant Fraser Malcolm Frawley Tom Galbraith Tom Hegarty Lisa Hoppe Graeme Koetsveld Nicholas Langton Serge Lazareff Rick Maier Chris McCourt Greg Millin Margaret Morgan Sean Nash Peter Neale Rhett O'Hara Matthew O'Sullivan David Phillips Tim Pye Forrest Redlich Chris Roache Leon Saunders Andrew Saw C V Schofield Sheila Sibley Steve J. Spears Caroline Stanton Hugh Stuckey John Upton Sally Webb Debra Wilcock Craig Wilkins Linden Wilkinson Carol Williams Alexa Wyatt
Directed by	Michael Ailwood John Banas Bruce Best Grant Brown Geoff Cawthorn Philip East Robin Hardy Rod Hardy Robert Meillon Steve Mann David Morgan Sean Nash Tony Osicka Richard Riddiford Viktors Ritelis Graham Rouse Alister Smart Leigh Spence Karl Zwicky
Starring	(see list of credited cast below)
Theme music composer	Ashley Irwin / Twilight Productions
Composer	Neil Sutherland
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4.5
No. of episodes	404 x 60-minute episodes
Production
Executive producer	Forrest Redlich
Producers	Bruce Best Denis Phelan Andrew Saw Forrest Redlich
Production locations	Rozelle, Balmain, Australia
Running time	60 minutes/30 minutes
Production company	Westside Television Productions
Original release
Network	Network Ten
Release	24 January 1989 (1989-01-24) – 20 May 1993 (1993-05-20)
Related
Richmond Hill A Country Practice (Network Ten series, 1994) Wittekerke (Belgium) Westerdeich (Germany)
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E Street is an Australian television soap opera created by Forrest Redlich^[1] and produced by his production company, Westside Television Productions, for Network Ten. It was broadcast twice weekly, from Wednesday, 24 January 1989 to Thursday, 20 May 1993. The series won several Logie awards.^[2]

E Street is short for Eden Street, which is based in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The action of the soap opera revolves around the local community.^[3]

The soap opera, Richmond Hill, which was produced by the Grundy Organization, was cancelled by Network Ten to make way for E Street.^[4] E Street initially rated poorly in Australia, but early audience research indicated that it had attracted both a significant proportion of the 14–35 audience demographic and a large male viewership. After a radical overhaul of the show, revised storylines and updated characters targeting the niche demographics, the ratings steadily climbed.

E Street ran for 404 episodes, each one hour long. Like many Australian soap operas before it, E Street was broadcast as two one-hour episodes each week and until the premiere of HeadLand in November 2005, it had been the last Australian soap opera to screen its episodes in this format. Notably, in the U.K., E Street aired as edited half-hour episodes, stripped 5 days a week.