Barrier Reef
Barrier Reef was an Australian television series that was first screened in 1971. Barrier Reef centred around a group of marine biologists on board a ship called the New Endeavour, researching around the Great Barrier Reef, off Queensland, Australia. "It was the first series in the world to feature extensive colour underwater filming on location". It was also a unique location for a TV show. The Great Barrier Reef is "The only living organic collective visible from Earth's orbit."
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Barrier Reef is about the adventures of a scientific search and recovery team working for General Trust Corporation, a large Australian industrial and pastoral group.
- Ep 1
1.Rendezvous
12-02-197130mA high ranking Government official makes a secret visit to the Endeavour to determine whether General Trust Corporation may use it's Minus Five equipment to commercial advantage wi...
- Ep 2
2.Galleon
19-02-197130mA Spaniard tricks the Minus Five team into using their equipment to locate a sunken galleon which, he says, carried a fortune in gold. His real reason is to prove a Spaniard discov...
- Ep 3
3.Something Beginning with M
26-02-197130mAn industrial spy gets aboard the Endeavour to photograph the top secret equipment, but he turns out to be not such a bad bloke when he realises his methods endanger Captain King's...
- Ep 4
4.Strange Cargo
05-03-197130mThe Minus Five team discover a murdered man in Barrier Reef waters, and he is buried on a small, lonely island. He is to be exhumed by the police, but when Sgt. Davies goes to the...
- Ep 5
5.The Pewter Chalice
12-03-197130mTwo nuns ask the Minus Five team to help them recover a sacred chalice lost in a wreck off the Great Barrier Reef, but Captain Ted King reluctantly declines assistance as the Endea...
- Ep 6
6.The Cannon Of Nemora
19-03-197130mThe Minus Five team has salvage rights to a vessel sunk off the Barrier Reef in the 1800's, but when they arrive they find divers down below. The gold disappears and it seems it ha...
- Ep 7
7.The Pirates
26-03-197130mTense moments mix with comedy when three students capture the Endeavour and, thinking the crew are spies, plan to hand them over to the police.
- Ep 8
8.Old Gold
02-04-197130mOld Harry tells Steve Gabo about two million dollars of gold coin carried on a plane lost during World War 2, which he has been trying to locate for years. The Minus Five team begi...
- Ep 9
9.Slipway
09-04-197130mThe Endeavour puts into a slipway in Townsville for inspection and maintenance, and the crew welcomes Diana Parker, the charming new operator for the Minus Five equipment. But ther...
- Ep 10
10.When Big Fish Die
16-04-197130mExploring an underwater oil field near the Great Barrier Reef, the mini-submarine crew strikes new danger - an ear-splitting, high-frequency sound that kills fish, and even disable...
- Ep 11
11.Russians Are Red
23-04-197130mThe Minus Five team become involved in political intrigue when a defector from a Russian ship asks them for political asylum in Australia. Steve Gabo takes his side, until he learn...
- Ep 12
12.Cyclone
30-04-197130mThe Endeavour runs before Cyclone Ada, which devastates tourist resorts on the Great Barrier Reef and towns on the North Queensland coast. After the disaster, the Minus Five team r...
- Ep 13
13.Assignment in Shute
07-05-197130mThe Endeavour crew are assigned to search for a fishing launch sunk during the cyclone. They plunge into a murder mystery when in the cabin they find a body with a knife in his bac...
- Ep 14
14.Thursday Girl
14-05-197130mA beautiful young girl from Thursday Island stows away on the Endeavour, claiming Jack Meurauki has promised to marry her. Hiding the girl from the Captain proves a major problem.
- Ep 15
15.Nothing But The Truth
21-05-197130mMinus Five picks up uranium readings which appear and disappear. A trawler hauls in a catch of fish which could be radioactive, but a more important 'catch' is contested with spear...
- Ep 16
16.White Death
28-05-197130mThe Endeavour is assigned by the government to chart unknown channels in the Barrier Reef. A man once badly mauled by a white pointer shark seeks revenge in the shark's breeding gr...
- Ep 17
17.Echoes From The Past
04-06-197130mThe Minus Five team is commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy to locate and chart a mine field off the Barrier Reef. During the trip, Captain Ted King risks his life to rescue o...
- Ep 18
18.A Matter of Money
11-06-197130mThe Endeavour's attractive new scientist learns a bitter lesson in security when she innocently arranges passage to Townsville for a colleague. Customs officer Morgan and the Minus...
- Ep 19
19.Scotch on The Rocks
18-06-197130mA wreck with a cargo of whisky hangs precariously on a ledge on the Reef. A puritan Scotsman plans to destroy the cargo, and a drunken beachcomber warns the Minus Five team, who ar...
- Ep 20
20.God Bless Her
25-06-197130mA mad scientist, intent on preserving the Barrier Reef from exploitation, plants explosives aboard the Endeavour as the crew wait to welcome the Royal Britannia during the Royal Vi...
- Ep 21
21.Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
02-07-197130mA Japanese submarine sunk during World War 2; a Shinto burial service; and the unusual interest displayed by a Member of Parliament plunge the Minus Five team into a new mystery on...
- Ep 22
22.Sea Fever
09-07-197130mA strange illness threatens the life of three people on the Great Barrier Reef when an old scientist loses control of dangerous research into the effects of radiation on the cycle...
- Ep 23
23.Shark Bait
16-07-197130mA wealthy fisherman hunts for a world record size shark, and baits an area with bloody meat. One of the Minus Five divers becomes trapped by a thrashing shark pack attracted by the...
- Ep 24
24.The Tripod
23-07-197130mThe owner of an illegal fishing fleet is desperate when the Minus Five team find a strange tripod on the sea bed which is his early warning system. He sends out a bogus distress si...
- Ep 25
25.Coconut Ice
30-07-197130mThe idea of icebergs in the tropical waters of the Barrier Reef at first amuses the Minus Five team, but the situation becomes grim when the icebergs prove to be real and a threat...
- Ep 26
26.Moon Shot
06-08-197130mA deadly, radioactive 16½ inch cylinder, released into the sea near the Great Barrier Reef from the crippled spacecraft Apollo 13, must be recovered and contained before the whole...
- Ep 27
27.The Speckled Stone Fish
13-08-197130mA bizarre attempted murder by the Mafia can only be prevented by a marine biologist and the Minus Five team working together. They must catch a deadly stone fish alive so that an a...
- Ep 28
28.The Old Skipper
20-08-197130mAn ageing sea captain who was the original skipper of the Endeavour determines to scuttle the ship so they can die together. Alone with him on the ship, Tracey Deane tries to chang...
- Ep 29
29.Sell Out
27-08-197130mOne of the Minus Five team acts as bait to catch a company official selling classified information about a newly discovered nickel field on the Barrier Reef.
- Ep 30
30.Black Diamond
03-09-197130mThe Minus Five team find an unconscious diver in the water and another on the sea bed. Attempting a rescue, one of the team gets nitrogen narcosis and tries to give a shark boxing...
- Ep 31
31.The Tunnel
10-09-197130mWhen the roof of a cave below the Great Barrier Reef collapses and traps one of the Minus Five divers, the others have to work against time to rescue him.
- Ep 32
32.Sanctuary Cay
17-09-197130mThe Minus Five team clash with big business wanting to exploit a tropical island, even though it would mean the extinction of millions of protected seabirds.
- Ep 33
33.The Missile
24-09-197130mA live missile embedded in the coral reef makes a dangerous proving ground for a celebrated Royal Australian Navy diver who has lost his nerve.
- Ep 34
34.His Majesty Regrets
01-10-197130mA monster turtle and a blonde diver girl form a strange alliance to frustrate the Minus Five team's latest assignment.
- Ep 35
35.Voices In The Deep
08-10-197130mForeign voices are heard by Kip over the radio as he searches below the Endeavour for one of his tools. The Minus Five team are challenged by strange divers who accuse them of spyi...
- Ep 36
36.Pilgrims Progress
15-10-197130mA desk-type security agent involves the Minus Five team in a dangerous duel with jet-boats when two men are discovered tapping an undersea cable and selling information to a foreig...
- Ep 37
37.Oysters Never Tell
22-10-197130mThe Minus Five team play cops and robbers with a pearl smuggler, and one of the team becomes trapped in an underwater cave.
- Ep 38
38.Bird Cage
29-10-197130mThe Minus Five team become involved in a lover's quarrel, which quickly turns very serious when the girl involved is trapped in a cage on the sea bed, and all evidence points to at...
- Ep 39
39.The Fence
05-11-197130mThe Minus Five team need all their skill to locate and rescue Kip Young, who has been overcome by the energy force of a sonic fence which was laid to warn submarines approaching th...
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