Reg Watson

Reg Watson is an Australian television producer, best known for creating soap operas like Prisoner and Neighbours.

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Australian - Television - Soap opera - Prisoner - Neighbours

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Before starting a number of soaps in his native Australia, he worked for over a decade with Hazel Adair and Peter Ling on the British soap Crossroads. He returned to Australia in the early 1970s and took up the post of head of drama at Reg Grundy Productions. During this time he created the soaps The Young Doctors, Glenview High, The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters, which also aired in the UK. The fame that he earned from Sons and Daughters allowed his idea for Neighbours to be picked up by the Seven Network. Currently, the show still airs on Network Ten after twenty years in production, and is the longest-running of Watson's creations. At the 47th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held on 1 May 2005, Neighbours became the 22nd inductee into the TV Week Hall of Fame.

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Hazel Adair - Peter Ling - British - Crossroads - 1970s - Reg Grundy Productions - The Young Doctors - Glenview High - The Restless Years - Sons and Daughters - Seven Network - Network Ten - TV Week - Logie Awards - 1 May - 2005 - Hall of Fame

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Watson also dabbled in television production in America, producing Dangerous Women, a short-lived soap opera based on the Australian Prisoner series.

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America - Dangerous Women

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