Story and Characters
Rush was a historical drama set during the Victorian Gold Rush during the 1850s. The first series was set at Crocker's Creek and filmed in Melbourne. The main cast the first year featured Waters, Olivia Hamnett, Brendon Lunney, Alwyn Kurts, Peter Flett, Max Meldrum. In 1976 the action was relocated to Turon Springs and shot in Sydney utilising sets left over from a previous historical drama about Ben Hall. Waters, Jane Harders, Delore Whitman, Alain Doutey and Vincent Ball were the stars. Hugh Keays-Byrne won a Logie Award for his performance in one episode of the second series.
The bulk of the scripts for the series were written by Colin Free and Ted Roberts.
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