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Head Start (2001)

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A large banking corporation runs an ongoing competition to foster innovation, creativity and achievement for young Australians. Applicant's aged 18 to 21 submit projects in the arts, sports, science, business and community fields. Each winner receives a #20,000 grant to make the dream project a reality. They also get full board in a freshly renovated inner city warehouse with six other high achievers to keep them company. Living together in this hothouse environment opens the doors to hysteria, tears, innovative brainstorms and the odd flirtation with success. The successful seven are advised and directed by Garrett Quinn, a 40 year old former corporate high flyer who lost everything in the crash of '87. He now sees this job as a way of redeeming himself. Among this years' successful applicants are Loc Minh Vu, a Vietnamese internet programmer determined to set up a website to help refugees, Clare and Patrick Gormley a brother and sister combination from the country who are attempting to establish and market their own line of yabbies for the fresh food market. Basia Lem is a documentary maker striving to complete a film on the life of one of the country's pioneer female aviators. Seth Wallis and Kyle Richter, designer and promoter of a new automatic gear change prototype for bicycles, and Katherine Ingram, a classical piano prodigy who is putting together a recording of her own compositions. The series follows the trials and triumphs of this disparate group. We will see their personal lives collide as they try to make their mark on the world in their chosen fields. Along the way there will be casualties and successes, romance and heartache but nothing will dampen their spirit.

Adventure, Drama, Comedy · Starring Ryan Johnson, Freya Stafford, Garth Holcombe, Blair Venn

Season 1 episodes

  1. Episode 1: Make or Break
  2. Episode 2: Dischord
  3. Episode 3: Changing Views
  4. Episode 4: Winner Takes All
  5. Episode 5: Making Music
  6. Episode 6: He Ain't Heavy
  7. Episode 7: Business or Pleasure
  8. Episode 8: Crash and Burn
  9. Episode 9: Uppers & Downers
  10. Episode 10: The Ties That Bind
  11. Episode 11: Family and Friends
  12. Episode 12: Interference
  13. Episode 13: To Market, to Market
  14. Episode 14: Rat in the Ranks
  15. Episode 15: Disconnected
  16. Episode 16: Tune In
  17. Episode 17: The Cold Hard Facts
  18. Episode 18: Seeing Is Believing
  19. Episode 19: Comings & Goings
  20. Episode 20: Uncharted Territory
  21. Episode 21: Out of the Blue
  22. Episode 22: Conviction & Eviction
  23. Episode 23: Fighting Back
  24. Episode 24: The Straight and Narrow
  25. Episode 25: Wheels and Deals
  26. Episode 26: Crackerjack
  27. Episode 27: Show & Tell
  28. Episode 28: Double Trouble
  29. Episode 29: To Be or Not to Be
  30. Episode 30: Hanging Out to Dry
  31. Episode 31: Get the Picture
  32. Episode 32: Breaking Out
  33. Episode 33: The Final Cut
  34. Episode 34: Street Cred
  35. Episode 35: Subterfuge
  36. Episode 36: First Impressions
  37. Episode 37: Nothing Is What It Seems
  38. Episode 38: Get Your Own Way
  39. Episode 39: Bars & Tenders
  40. Episode 40: New Beginnings

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