Young Ramsay
Starring	John Hargreaves Serge Lazareff Vic Gordon
Country of origin	Australia
No. of episodes	26
Original release
Network	Seven Network
Release	30 October 1977 (1977-10-30) – 8 November 1980 (1980-11-08)

Young Ramsay was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1977 to 1980 on the Seven Network. It was produced by Crawford Productions as two series of 13 episodes each.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Veterinarian Peter Ramsay (John Hargreaves) relocates from Sydney to the countryside to join the practice of semi-retired vet Jack Lambert (Vic Gordon).

Cast

Main cast[edit]

John Hargreaves as Peter Ramsay
Serge Lazareff as Ray Turner
Vic Gordon as Jack Lambert (season 1 only)
Barbara Llewellyn as Julie Lambert (season 1 only)
Louise Howitt as Cassie McCallum (season 2 only)
John Howard as Bob Scott (season 2 only)

Guest cast[edit]

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Alyson Best as Isobel Peach
Bettina Welch as Rhonda Thompson
Bill Hunter as Frank Adams
Brian Blain as Dunn
Brian Wenzel as Ken Cooper
Briony Behets as Chrissie Thompson
Colleen Hewett as Kathy Rand
Danny Adcock as Ben Salter
David Gulpilil as Aborigine
Diane Craig as Sara/Tess Cameron
Di Smith as Nurse
Ernie Bourne as Blowfly
Frank Gallacher as Dave Foster
Gerry Duggan as Hardluck Harris
Graeme Blundell as Bob O’Hara
Greg Rowe as Billy Foster
Harold Hopkins as Ken Murray
Ian Smith as Doctor
Jonathan Hardy as Colonel Flynn
Judith McGrath as Ethel Dean / Rosemary Billings
Julieanne Newbould as Georgie Garrett
Kirsty Child as Jocelyn Scott
Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Maurice Morpeth
Lois Ramsey as Maisie O’Brien
Max Cullen as Alec Thompson
Mercia Deane-Johns as Eleanor
Michele Fawdon as Toni Fields
Miles Buchanan as Nick Adams (1 episode)
Monica Maughan as Shirley Watt
Ned Manning as Joe Taylor
Penne Hackforth-Jones as Emma Carroll
Peter Gwynne as Roy McPherson
Peter Sumner as Bob Marshall
Queenie Ashton as Dolly Farrell
Rob Carlton
Rob Steele as Stan Baker
Rod Mullinar as George
Roger Ward as Phil Angel (1 episode)
Ron Graham as Bruce Watt
Ruth Cracknell as Hazel Barton
Sam Neill as Crossland
Sigrid Thornton as Annette Murray
Stefan Dennis as Sid Atkinson
Syd Heylen as Sid Kelly
Syd Conabere as Pat Muldoon
Terry Gill as Fred
Terry Norris as ‘Old Wombat’ Thompson
Tim Robertson as Russell Scott
Tommy Dysart as Paddy Rourke

Filming locations

The series was filmed at Tooradin on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, and in the Healesville surrounds - representing the area of ‘Jindarra’.

Awards

Year	Award	Title	Status
1980	Penguin Award (Television Society of Australia)	Best TV Play or TV Movie Direction (Kevin Dobson, Young Ramsay)	Won