The Games - Season 2

The Games - Season 2

Season 2

Network
Episodes13
DatesJun 19, 2000 - Sep 11, 2000
Previous Season

Episodes

In the Public Interest
Season 2Episode 130 min

In the Public Interest

John becomes the target of a TV documentary. He becomes a prisoner in his own house, after accusations of corruption are made by a former college.
Jun 19, 2000
Talking to the Troops
Season 2Episode 230 min

Talking to the Troops

The organisers address the troops to bolster morale. However the team find themselves facing a hostile and unhappy group of workers. As John, Bryan and Gina try to duck and weave the curve balls thrown their way, John reveals his ten-point plan that will ensure a smooth Olympic Games for everyone.
Jun 26, 2000
Reconciliation
Season 2Episode 330 min

Reconciliation

The team have to deal with a aboriginal land claim and a demand by a US senator for a formal apology by the P.M.
Jul 3, 2000
IOC Man
Season 2Episode 430 min

IOC Man

The team look after an IOC man from the States. Many hundreds of thousands of internationals guests will be here with us as we celebrate the games of the (whatever) Olympiad of the Modern Era. This is the story of just one of them, and perhaps one or two others.
Jul 10, 2000
Inquiry
Season 2Episode 530 min

Inquiry

Each member of the Games team must face an inquiry into their practices. The system of cheques and balances which operates in an organisation of this kind ensures that the public gets the very best service, open access to decision making and full recourse to the best legal system available anywhere in the world.
Jul 17, 2000
Pommy Visitor
Season 2Episode 630 min

Pommy Visitor

Consistent with our duties as host nation for the Games, we welcome a visitor from the English bid for the 2012 Olympics, here on secondment. As in many other aspects of our relationship with Britain, it is sometimes difficult to tell whether we are helping, being helped or have simply landed on the wrong beach. Tonight The Games team must look after a member of the English Olympic Bid while dealing with Nicholas, who wants them to sell the furniture.
Jul 24, 2000
Immigration
Season 2Episode 730 min

Immigration

Any potential "Aussie Gold Rush" at these Olympics can be expected to profit, as gold rushes in Australia have done in earlier days, from immigration. Freedom-loving peoples everywhere who yearn to start a new life in this beautiful country, should apply directly to the Minister for Sport, stating their name, event and shirt-size. The Games team must deal with the lies coming out of the Minister's office regarding immigration.
Jul 31, 2000
Job Search
Season 2Episode 830 min

Job Search

In the uncertain world of international logistics and sports management, prospects for the future must be considered carefully. Meanwhile, at sea, the piranha play happily in the afternoon sun. The Games team consider what the future holds after The Games.
Aug 7, 2000
Strike
Season 2Episode 930 min

Strike

The Olympics offer Australia an opportunity not just to showcase our wonderful country and a range of endangered marsupials. The event will also bring to this country an international Cultural Festival featuring the very best in the visual arts, music and dance. There will also be some sport. The Games team must try to avoid major industrial action which could ruin the impending Olympics.
Aug 14, 2000
Solar
Season 2Episode 1030 min

Solar

Head of Administration and Logistics, John Clarke, and his colleagues, Bryan Dawe, Head of Accounts, Budgeting and Finance, and Gina Riley, Marketing and Liaison Manager, are sizzling in the heat of the final countdown to the Opening Ceremony. As the Games draw closer, the Games team try to devise ways of supplementing their dwindling revenue.
Aug 21, 2000
Sponsorship and Media Discontent
Season 2Episode 1130 min

Sponsorship and Media Discontent

Would the person who borrowed the synopsis for this episode, please return it to the office immediately. To have this sort of thing happening at this stage is just an embarrassment. The whole world is watching and this is precisely the sort of problem we were trying to avoid. Grow up.
Aug 28, 2000
Four Corners
Season 2Episode 1230 min

Four Corners

The ABC's Four Corners is planning an expos on the games. John and Bryan have been secretly recorded advocating that the rich pay more taxes. A much bigger story overtakes the expos and leaves Nicholas with egg on his face.
Sep 4, 2000
The End
Season 2Episode 1330 min

The End

The games team cope with the hype as the Opening Ceremony draws near.
Sep 11, 2000

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