On Wednesday 19 June 2024, Olivia will go on stage in a production again after 17 years.

She'll appear as Nurse (also known as "A Strange Woman") in the Free-Rain Theatre Company production of A Streetcare Named Desire in Kingston, ACT, Australia.

The show runs for 11 days, from the 19th until the 29th with shows ...

Today is the official 9th anniversary of C/o the Bartons!

Huh, what? Didn't it turn 35 just last year!?

Well yes... and no. Since the very first episode was broadcast in Australia on a leap day, 29 February 1988, you could consider today to be only its ninth anniversary :)

But for everybody else, today marks the 36th ...

Just a quick content update:

I've added two new clippings to the Clippings page:

• Hard work and little pay for most child actors looks into the unfair pay that child actors received when compared to adults in the 80s, with Bartons ...

Oh that Filming Locations page! I'm telling you: it haunts me in my dreams. There's just so much information to share, that I've been struggling on how to present it in a user friendly way ever since the page launched.

The previous iteration of the page ...

Page updates are a bit further apart nowadays because all the source material is pretty much on the site.

But I just found two pictures in my collection that I had not previously uploaded to the site (for unknown reasons). I added them for your enjoyment!

Olivia ...

On 29 February 1988 at 5.00 PM sharp, the ABC in Australia broadcast the very first episode of our beloved series. And guess what? That means today is the show's official anniversary!

So, yes, technically, it would have been 35 years old ...

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the conclusion of the production of Bartons. By this day in 1987, everything was shot, edited and transferred on to broadcast tapes. Only one thing remained left to do...

So, on 22 August 1987, a big Going Away-party was held in Studio 31. It was the very last time cast ...

With full credits to fellow Bartons fan Richard, a new filming location has been confirmed! It's the fire station seen in the episode Position Vacant, completing all filming locations used in that episode!

And what's really cool is that Richard reached out to Fire Rescue Victoria, ...

After being gone for well over a year, clippings have returned!

Not everything is back yet though, but still there's a nice selection with some great stories on Bartons, the actors and the 1987/1988 Australian television landscape (and Bartons' role in it).

At the moment, all of these clippings come ...

I've added a few photos to the Photos page for you to enjoy.

A few come from Rosemary's personal collection, two are from fellow Bartons fan Paul and a few are from my own collection.

Here's three of them:

Liv in 1987	Clipping from the Radio Times	Rosemary Smith

It's been a full year, but bartonsontheweb.nl finally has a few clips again! Sorry it took so long!

You can find the clips in the episode guide. There's fourteen clips in total: one for each episode, the opening credits and one extra clip from Half-time (for long time visitors: no points ...

Thanks to The Henderson Kids II cast member Damian MacAlpine, I now have confirmation that "our" Michael O'Reilly was on that show. Not only that, Damian provided me with a set of screen captures with Michael on them. Thanks Damian!

Of course Michael's profile on the Cast ...

Happy New Year!
Here's hoping that this year is better than the last two were (although, strictly from a Bartons on the Web point of view, they weren't too bad, but you get what I mean, right?).

New content!
We start the year with a nice content update! If you scoot over to ...