Australian Television: Heartbreak High

Executive Producers: Ben Gannon and Michael Jenkins

Aired: 1994-1996 (Ten) and 1997-1999 (ABC)

Heartbreak High is a hip and realistic series about the lives of teenage students, their families and teachers at a high school. Heartbreak High is set in an inner city school, Hartley High, within a multi-racial area. Heartbreak High was originally a stage play which producer, Ben Gannon, turned into a successful film The Heartbreak Kid in 1993. The show captured more than 70 per cent of the youth audience in its first five weeks of broadcast in Australia.

Starring	as	appeared
Alex Dimitriades	Nick Poulos	episodes 1 - 38
Sarah Lambert	Christina Milano	episodes 1 - 26
Katherine Halliday	Rosette Malouf	episodes 1 - 49
Salvatore Coco	Con Bordino	episodes 1 - 71
Emma Roche	Danielle Miller	episodes 1 - 91
Corey Page	Steve Wiley	episodes 1 - 65
Doris Younane	Yola Fatoush	episodes 1 - 52
Scott Major	Peter Rivers	episodes 1 - 65
Abi Tucker	Jodie Cooper	episodes 1 - 65
Isabella Gutierrez	Chaka Cardenes	episodes 1 - 14
Tai Nguyen	Jack Tran	episodes 1 - 22
Tony Martin	Bill Southgate	episodes 1 - 52
Hugh Baldwin	Graham Brown	episodes 1 - 26
Stephen O'Rourke	Jim Deloraine	episodes 1 - 69
Jan Adele	Ruby	episodes 1 - 26
Elly Varrenti	Irini Poulos	episodes 1 - 8
Nico Lathouris	George Poulos	episodes 1 - 30
Despina Caldis	Effie Poulos	episodes 1 - 65

Series One Additions
Peta Toppano	Stella Ioannou	episodes 9 - 28
Ada Nicodemou	Katerina Ioannou	episodes 16 - 28
Ivar Kants	Roberto Bordino	episodes 29 - 96
Barbara Gouskos	Helen Bordino	episodes 29 - 96
Kym Wilson	Sam Robinson	episodes 29 - 36
Alexandra Brunning	Lucy Weston	episodes 30 - 51

Series Two Additions
Vince Poletto	Matt Logan	episodes 39 - 97

Series Three Additions
Kym Wilson	Sam Robinson	episodes 53 - 65
Ada Nicodemou	Katerina Ioannou	episodes 54 - 130
Inge Hornstra	Allie Matts	episodes 55 - 87
Ian Bliss	Andrew Bell	episodes 56 - 78

Series Four Additions
Jon Pollard	Alan Bolton	episodes 66 - 95
Deni Gordon	Rhonda Brooks	episodes 67 - 130
Diane Craig	June Dyson	episodes 69 - 92
Rupert Reid	Declan Costello	episodes 72 - 104
Tara Jakszewicz	Anatasia Sumich	episodes 73 - 96
Simon Baker-Denny	Tom Summers	episodes 80 - 87
Sebastian Goldspink	Charlie Byrd	episodes 81 - 130

Series Five Additions
Rebecca Smart	Melanie Black	episodes 95 - 117, 122 - 136
Lara Cox	Anita Scheppers	episodes 98 - 210
Rel Hunt	Ryan Scheppers	episodes 98 - 186
Tina Bursill	Hilary Scheppers	episodes 98 - 133
Callan Mulvey	Bogdan Drazic	episodes 99 - 210
Peter Sumner	Les Bailey	episodes 99 - 134
Nina Liu	Mai Hem	episodes 104 - 150

Series Six Additions
Fleur Beaupert	Nikki Ruark	episodes 131 - 169
Jeremy Lidsay Tayler	Kurt Peterson	episodes 131 - 186
Nathalie Roy	Sarah Livingston	episodes 131 - 210
Marcel Bracks	Lee Delaine	episodes 131 - 210
John Walton	Nat Delaine	episodes 133 - 150
Morna Seres	Jill Delaine	episodes 153 - 200
Putu Winchester	Dennis Klinnsman	episodes 139 - 150, 154 - 186
Frederick Miragliotta	Gerrard Albers	episodes 153 - 185
Andrea Moar	Di Barnett	episodes 155 - 200

Series Seven Additions
Mario Gamma	Peter D'esposito	episodes 151 - 210
Tasneem Roc	Thania Saya	episodes 175 - 210
Bianca Nacson	Gem Whitley	episodes 187 - 209
Luke Jacobz	Zac Croft	episodes 187 - 210
John Gregg	Alan Carson	episodes 187 - 210
Elena Carapetis	Jackie Kassis	episodes 187 - 210
Danny Raco	Marco Vialli	episodes 191 - 210
Katherine Hicks	Tess Mason	episodes 201 - 210
Mark Owen-Taylor	Tim Mason	episodes 201 - 210

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