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9 unusual facts about McLeod's Daughters


Basia A'Hern

She has also appeared as Rose Hall-Smith, Stevie Hall's daughter, on the popular Australian drama McLeod's Daughters.

Brett Tucker

For his role as Dave Brewer on the drama McLeod's Daughters, he apprenticed with a real country veterinarian to research his role.

Gawler railway station

The station building has appeared in a number of television shows and movies including The Shiralee and McLeod's Daughters.

Gawler, South Australia

The hit Australian television program about the McLeod sisters, McLeod's Daughters, was shot at "Kingsford", a working property outside Gawler's northeastern fringe.

Leon Ford

He has also appeared in many other television series including All Saints, East West 101 and McLeod's Daughters, the 2005 movie The Great Raid and voiced a character in the 2008 stop motion animated movie $9.99.

Louise Crane-Bowes

She has also worked as a writer and script editor on such shows as Murder Call, Water Rats, and McLeod's Daughters.

McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 1

McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 1 is the first album of songs from the Australian Drama McLeod's Daughters released on 26 August 2002.

McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 2

McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 2 is the second album of songs from the soundtrack of Australian television drama McLeod's Daughters released on 25 April 2004 and made the top 40 of the Australian album charts as at 3 May 2004.

McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 3

McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 3 is the third installment from the popular Australian Series McLeod's Daughters.


1946 Pilbara strike

According to McLeod in his book, How the West was Lost self-published in 1984, the strike was planned at an Aboriginal law meeting in 1942 at Skull Springs (east of Nullagine), where a massacre had previously occurred.

A Downland Suite

The suite is a pictorial depiction enshrining the composer's love for the Sussex downs and has been described by Donald McLeod as "sunnily bucolic".

Adelle Lutz

Lutz co-directed with Sandy McLeod the music video "Too Darn Hot" performed by Erasure.

Alan Arnett McLeod

On 27 March 1918 over Albert, France, Second Lieutenant McLeod, with his observer Lt. Arthur Hammond, in an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 destroyed an enemy triplane and were immediately attacked by eight more, three of which they brought down, but the petrol tank of the bomber was hit.

Alex McLeod

After leaving "Trading Spaces" in 2002 McLeod performed in back to back reality TV projects making the move into major network television with a hosting role on Fox's controversial first season of Joe Millionaire shot on location in France's Loire Valley.

Alexander McLeod

British ambassador Henry Stephen Fox initially informed the Americans that the legal precedent established in handing over a man named "Christie" three years earlier after his arrest for the Caroline burning would also be applied to McLeod.

Andrew Evans case

While Evans relayed his story, Elsworth took detailed notes of the case, then passed them on to John McLeod and Allister Craddock, two producers at Carlton Television.

Archibald Norman McLeod

Born at Kilfinichen, he was the fifth son of Rev. Neil McLeod (1729-1780) M.A., a native of St Kilda, and Margaret MacLean (1737-1789), daughter of Rev. Archibald MacLean (b.1683) M.A., of the MacLeans of Boreray, North Uist.

Atlanta elections, 2009

There were three candidates for Council President: Ceasar C. Mitchell, Clair McLeod Muller, and Dave Gregory Walker.

Autobody

All hail from (or subsequently joined) other arty post-rock/freeform acts like Caroliner, Dymaxion, Fly Ashtray, Job's Daughters, Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Flaming Fire, The Aerosols, Bare Flames, and Drumhead.

Bruce McLeod

In the 1981 provincial election, McLeod was the Ontario Liberal Party's candidate in the Toronto riding of St. George finishing second behind Susan Fish.

Edgy Women

Past performers include actress Marie Brassard, Jess Dobkin (performance artist), Céline Bonnier (actress), Dayna Mcleod (performance artist), Sylvette Babin (performance artist), Coral Short (performance artist), WWKA (Women With Kitchen Appliances), Les Fermières Obsédées (Quebec City), Lazlo Pearlman (UK), and Jen Miller (USA).

Ekaterina Starshova

In 2007, the then 6-year old Starshova was given the role of Polina "Pugovka" Vasnetsova in the Russian TV series, Daddy's Daughters (Papiny docki), alongside Andrei Leonov, Nonna Grishaeva, Miroslava Karpovich, Anastasia Sinavaeva, Darya Melnikova, and Elizaveta Arzamasova.

Eric Schermerhorn

Sheryl Crow covered a song he co-wrote with Brian Mcleod and Bill Botrell called "Shine over Babylon", for her Detours album.

Farmer's Daughters

The film starts as Fred ridicules the three daughters for peeping on their parents having sex.

The convicts (with their leader, George, played by Spalding Gray who would later become famous for his mainstream acting and monologue work) continue on to the parents' house and stop them in mid-intercourse.

Fred McLeod

McLeod's mother was from Bolton in East Lothian and his father was from the Isle of Skye.

Gillian Alexy

She gained notability for her role as Tayler Geddes on Logie Award-winning television series McLeod's Daughters; she first appeared at the end of season 6, in which her character came to Drovers Run to get revenge on Regan McLeod, whom she held responsible for the death of her father.

HMS A5

The town virtually closed down for the funeral as a mark of respect, and bands and pipers from HMS Emerald, the Gordon Highlanders and that of Rear Admiral McLeod, the commanding officer of Haulbowline Naval Base.

Horn car

Horn cars were an initiative taken by Max McLeod, who owned a Ford dealership in Rockdale, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.

Judi McLeod

McLeod worked as a city-hall reporter in the Greater Toronto Area for the Brampton Times in 1981, where her husband was the managing editor.

Kevin McLeod

In 2007 Special Duties and Koopa re-recorded the "Up the U's!" with a song entitled "Stand Up For Col U" featuring the vocal talents of McLeod and his Colchester United teammates Jamie Cureton, Chris Iwelumo, Wayne Brown, Karl Duguid, Kevin Watson, Pat Baldwin and Dean Gerken.

Matt Passmore

Following the end of their marriage in 2006, Matt met girlfriend Rachael Carpani on the set of McLeod's Daughters when he returned to play Marcus, Alex's brother.

Matthew Butcher

One of the men involved, Robert McLeod (55) was shot by Constable Butcher with a Taser stun gun.

McLeod's Daughters awards

The APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards are issued by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) at an annual ceremony.

Music from McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters have had many different songs for their closing credits which are written by Posie Graeme-Evans & Chris Harriot and performed by singer Rebecca Lavelle who also had a guest role in series 6 as Bindi Martin

New York Dance Festival

In the early years, Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Sean McLeod forged a partnership with Cayuga Community College, Director of Student Services Joy Shortell, and past college President Dr. Larry Poole, along with Purchase Conservatory of Dance alum to create this artistic platform.

Nine News Melbourne

Fill-in presenters for the 6pm bulletin include news presenters Tony Jones, Jo Hall and Brett McLeod, sports presenters Clint Stanaway and Corey Norris, and weather presenters Rebecca Judd, Chloe Bugelly and Justine Mackenzie.

Norman Bethune Sanson

Finding employment as a bookkeeper at the Mount Brett sanitorium he became acquainted with a Mr. McLeod who was curator of the museum and the park meteorologist.

Norman Z. McLeod

Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes It's a Gift (1934) with W. C. Fields, and the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Paleface starring Bob Hope (1948).

Pandora's Daughters

The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 1987 book by Eva Cantarella

Peter McLeod

Like all Commodore runners, McLeod upgraded to the newly homologated Holden VK Commodore SS Group A for 1986.

McLeod began his racing career in 1980 at the relatively old age of 32, progressing immediately into touring car racing where in just three seasons to become one of Australia's fastest privately entered touring car racers, and usually had the fastest Mazda RX-7's behind Allan Moffat's factory supported team (though with reportedly more horsepower than Moffat's cars).

Philalethes Society

Fellows elected since that time have included Masonic notables such as Carl H. Claudy (1936), Arthur Edward Waite (1937), Ray Denslow (1945), Allen E. Roberts (1963), S. Brent Morris (1980), John Mauk Hilliard (1981), Wallace McLeod (1986), Thomas W. Jackson (1991), Norman Vincent Peale (1991), Robert G. Davis (1993), Leon Zeldis (1994) and Jay Kinney (2010).

Pilbara

Family clans in the Pilbara who were supported by mining prospector, Don McLeod, developed skills for mining and the concentration of rare metals.

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba candidates, 2007 Manitoba provincial election

McLeod is a manager with CanadInns, and has studied political science at the University of Winnipeg.

Rebecca Riots

In 1948 Dylan Thomas wrote the screenplay for a film, Rebecca's Daughters, which was published as a novel of the same name in 1965.

The First Night

It was written by Tamara Savage and Jermaine Dupri for her second studio album, The Boy Is Mine (1998), featuring production by the latter, and was built around a sample of Diana Ross's 1976 recording "Love Hangover," penned by Marilyn McLeod and Pam Sawyer, who share co-writing credits on the song.

Tuncer Őren

Tuncer Őren (born ca. 1935 in İstanbul) is Turkish/Canadian systems engineer, professor emeritus of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Director, The McLeod Modeling and Simulation Network (M&SNet) of the SCS.

Turnin' On

#"You Can't Turn Me Off (In the Middle of Turning Me On)" (Pam Sawyer/Marilyn McLeod)

Typhoon Saturday

Formed in 1981 from the ashes of Worksop band Veiled Threat, singer Elaine McLeod, Bassist Derek Taylor and drummer Nigel Fitzpatrick recruited Nick Robinson on guitar to form Red Zoo.

Wyndham College

Kain O'Keeffe – Actor, Home & Away, Blue Water High, Packed to the Rafters, Underbelly, McLeod's Daughters


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