My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?

The situation involved a young couple, Wally and Rita Stiller (John Meillon and Judi Farr), living in Balmain with Rita's father Dominic McGooley (Gordon Chater). Also in the regular cast was Stewart Ginn, and later Noeline Brown joined. The comedy of the series came from the clash of two generations living under one roof, a situation possibly suggested by UK comedies Steptoe and Son and Till Death Us Do Part.[1] Many episodes were written by Ralph Peterson.

When Chater left the series in 1968 the remaining cast was spun off into a new series titled Rita and Wally but it was found that the character of Dominic was integral to the comedy of the situation and the series ended a few months later.

The series had a three-season run of 88 episodes under the McGooley title.[1] Rita and Wally ran for a single season of 23 episodes.[2]

The program was made on videotape but, as was common at the time, the videotape masters were wiped and re-used. 16mm film copies of the complete series, created for affiliates that couldn't broadcast it alongside the rest of the network, as well as for sale to foreign countries, were donated to the National Film and Sound Archive.

• Gordon Chater as Dominic McGooley
• John Meillon as Wally
• Judi Farr as Rita
• Noeline Brown as Rosemary "Possum" Urkens
• Stewart Ginn as Peregrine Nancarrow
• Frank Taylor as Vile

The program was rated number 24 in 2005 television special 50 Years 50 Shows which counted-down Australia's greatest television programs.

• List of Australian television series

• Moran, Albert. Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, Allen & Unwin, 1993. ISBN 0-642-18462-3 OCLC 30381946

• My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? at IMDb
• My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? - Classic Australian Television
• Rita and Wally at IMDb