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Hey You! (TV series)

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ48743346 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hey You! is an Australian television sitcom which first screened on the 0-10 Network in 1967 and ran for 16 episodes. It was created by Godfrey Philipp and John-Michael Howson; Howson was credited as 'John Howson' on the pilot episode.

The show was set in inner-city Melbourne and typically revolved around the alcohol-inspired escapades of roommates Ocker Ramsay and Hugh T. Worthington, and their landlady Mrs. McNugg (sometimes credited as 'McNug').

Cast

Episodes

See also

List of Australian television series

References

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Hey You!

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hey You! (TV series)” is television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through series and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, series and television is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “television series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48743346. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Hey You! (TV series) primary sources, Hey You! (TV series) archive and series research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hey You! (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.