Best Australian action series

Territory (2024)

When the world's largest cattle station is left without a clear heir, rival factions descend as a fierce generational struggle upends the land's future.

Duncan's Thai Kitchen (2015)

Duncan is simultaneously a moderately good chef and in his personal delusion, believes he is the twin brother of Ethan Hunt living in modern day Thailand ridden with crime. However, this is mostly fantasy and Duncan spends most of his time trying to add Thai women to his harem luring them with an increasing amount of tattoos that he gets during the shows. A native of two island continents (Antarctica and Australia), Duncan has come to believe he was raised by a family of curry and Pad Thai. He sets up rogue kitchens throughout the country side taking over local food stalls and promoting his love of fish sauce, palm sugar, tamarind, and synthetic cocaine.

Black Panther (2010)

Deep in the heart of Africa lies Wakanda, an advanced and unconquerable civilization. A family of warrior kings possessing superior speed, strength and agility has governed this mysterious nation as long as time itself. The latest in this famed line is young King T’Challa, the great hero known worldwide as the Black Panther. Now, outsiders once again threaten to invade and plunder Wakanda.

Farscape (1999)

A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.

Faraway Downs (2023)

The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover to protect her ranch.

Ultraman Great (1990)

Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Gudis. Suddenly a giant warrior, Ultraman Great, arrives and fights Goudes, but when Ultraman is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth where it mutates other creatures into monsters and awakens existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins UMA in order to help them battle the monsters.

Mako: Island of Secrets (2013)

Real-life mermaids, Sirena, Nixie and Lyla are part of a mermaid pod, which lives in the waters of Mako Island. As young members of the pod, it is their job to protect the Moon Pool and guard it from trespassers. But on the night of a full moon, the mischievous mermaid girls neglect their duties. Sixteen-year-old land-dweller Zac enters the Moon Pool and forms a special connection with Mako. Zac is given a fish-like tail and amazing powers. The mermaid pod is forced to leave Mako, leaving behind the three mermaid girls, cast out of the pod. They know there's only one way they will be allowed to rejoin the pod: They must get legs, venture onto land and take back Zac's powers – or risk being outcasts forever.

The New Legends of Monkey (2018)

Follow a teenage girl and a trio of fallen gods on a perilous journey as they attempt to bring an end to a demonic reign of chaos and restore balance to their world. Inspired by the 16th Century Chinese fable “Journey to the West.”

Nowhere Boys (2013)

Four teenage boys get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.

The Artful Dodger (2023)

It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.

The Crocodile Hunter (1997)

The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series that was hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife Terri. The show became a popular franchise due to its unconventional approach and Irwin's approach to wildlife. It spawned a number of separate projects, including the feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and two television spinoffs: The Crocodile Hunter Diaries and Croc Files. The series has been presented on Animal Planet and has been in international syndication on networks worldwide.

The Deep (2015)

The adventures of the Nekton family, a family of daring underwater explorers who live aboard a state-of-the-art submarine, The Aronnax, and explore uncharted areas of the earth's oceans to unravel the mysteries of the deep.

Murder Drones (2021)

A heart warming story of "destroy all humans." Uzi, a sardonic teen worker robot gone rogue befriends N, an excitable optimistic disassembly drone sent to destroy her, creating what we can assume is a very bad relationship for mankind.

Murder Drones (2021)

On a post-apocalyptic exoplanet, worker drones struggle to survive by hiding from rogue robots called Murder Drones.

The Big Lez Show (2012)

Big Lez is a humanoid alien who lives in Brown Town, Australia, with his adopted son Quinton. Lez spends most of his time hanging out with his next-door neighbours Sassy and Donny, two mysterious and occasionally omniscient sasquatches, and Mike "Nolesy" Nolan, a self-employed jack of all trades. The group's activities range from casual smoke sessions to grand misadventures, eventually landing them in a bloody war against Lez's father and his army of monstrous Choomahs.

MaveriX (2022)

Six young motocross riders come together to form a team, to make the national titles, or crash out trying. But the biggest win of all might be the friends they make for life.

Bloom (0)

Bloom is a mystery drama about the scarcity of time and the choices we make. Beyond the impulses of youth and the regrets of age lies a secret.One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth. It’s a gift powerful beyond wildest imaginings. A phenomenon so formidable that attempting to harness its potency means re-evaluating everything that’s important.It’s a miracle some will kill to keep secret.

Ocean Girl (1994)

Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the friendships she develops with the inhabitants of an underwater research facility called ORCA. The show is an example of deep ecology science fiction.

Danger 5 (2012)

Set in a bizarre, 1960's inspired version of World War II, the action comedy series follows the finest group of spies the Allies have to offer on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler.

BeastMaster (1999)

BeastMaster chronicles the adventures of Dar, the last surviving male of the storied Sula tribe, who is blessed with the ability to communicate telepathically with the animals of his ancient world. Also endowed with the strength, courage and fighting skills of a great warrior, he uses his gifts to defend all living creatures oppressed by the forces of evil.

Escape from Scorpion Island (2007)

Tomorrow When the War Began (2016)

This dramatic adventure series tells the story of a group of teenagers who are separated from their families following an invasion of their country, a conflict they never saw coming.

Foreign Exchange (2004)

Foreign Exchange is an Australian fantastic's television programme broadcast by Southern Star during 2004. It starred Lynn Styles as Hannah O'Flaherty, a feisty Irish girl, and Zachary Garred as Brett Miller, a sun-drenched Australian boy. The pair are brought together from opposite sides of the world, due to a transfer portal. The series of 26 episodes was created by the Australian John Rapsey and directed by Annie Murtagh-Monks and Gillian Reynolos.

Sassy the Sasquatch (2022)

From the creator of The Big Lez Show, Sassy the Sasquatch follows the adventures of Lez’s former neighbor Sassy as he travels across space and time, making old and new friends in a spiritual quest of self-discovery.

The Girl from Tomorrow (1992)

Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.

Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988)

Based on the life of Emma Eliza Coe, known as the "Queen of the South Seas", whose strength and cunning staved off the colonial struggle involving the United States, Great Britain, and Germany while she built her own empire. Emma’s father, the first consul in Samoa, taught his daughter at an early age the bitter truth about the fickleness of men.

The Haunted School (0)

Moby Dick (1998)

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Crazy Fun Park (2022)

A shy teen wants desperately to fit in and enjoy his high school years if only his dead best friend and a posse of rotting ghouls would stop sabotaging him at every turn.

NCIS: Sydney (2023)

The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.