Reginald Roy GrundyAC, OBE (4 August 1923 – 6 May 2016) was an Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, best known for his numerous television productions. He was the producer of various Australian game shows, such as Blankety Blanks (based on a Mark Goodson–Bill Todman production, Match Game) and Wheel of Fortune (based on the US Merv Griffin production of the same name) before later diversifying into soap operas and serials including Prisoner, The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours, the last of which was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2005.
Australia, "RegGrundies", "Grundies" or "Reggies", is rhyming slang for "undies" (underpants). The Wildlife of RegGrundy (2005, Grundy Foundation) ISBN 9781894916363...
RegGrundy Organisation (founded as RegGrundy Enterprises, later known as both RegGrundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's)...
television tycoon RegGrundy, she wrote, worked as a production assistant and appeared in his productions and served on the board of Grundys Worldwide, subsequently...
entity RegGrundy Enterprises and Grundy International Distribution set the normal operating system for many production houses worldwide. Grundy grew to...
and that year The Box occupied the number two spot. Also in 1974, the RegGrundy Organisation created its first soap opera, and significantly Australia's...
holiday or a weekend break to a location in Europe. In the Central and RegGrundy Productions era of the show, each square in the first two rounds was worth...
Grundy's Shoes, a shoe retailer in Adelaide, South Australia RegGrundy Organisation, an Australian television production company, later the Grundy Organisation...
Productions and Grundy Television Supermarket Sweep 1993–2001 2007 2019–2020 ITV/ITV2 continued from Fremantle UK Productions, Grundy Television and Talkback...
in 1973. Upon his return home, he took up the post of head of drama at RegGrundy Productions. Thanks to his popular British soap, he was able to create...
Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed 'Reg' due to his namesake RegGrundy, he was elevated from the Sydney Swans rookie list in 2005...
occasionally been licensed to international networks by the original producers RegGrundy Organisation/Fremantle. Based on the Neighbours story and character outlines...
purchased in 1980 by Australian TV mogul RegGrundy, who produced a similar show called Great Temptation in the 1970s. Grundy subsequently launched an Australian...
Playhouse, while the Rodney Seaborn Library forms part of its library and the RegGrundy Studio is a training and production facility for film and television....
other production companies owned by Fremantle, including the UK arm of RegGrundy Productions; comedy specialists Alomo Productions and William G. Stewart's...
Germany, originally airing on Sat.1 from 1992 until 1995 produced by RegGrundy and hosted by Peer Augustinski. The show was loosely in the format of...
until 1979.[citation needed] In 1980, the Grundy Organization, on the advice of its founder and producer, RegGrundy, decided to revive the $25,000 Great Temptation...
Caged Women) is an Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson, and was produced by the RegGrundy Organisation for Network Ten. The series was set primarily...
Productions show The Amateur's Guide to Love. In 1983, he hosted a pilot for RegGrundy Productions titled Party Line, which later became Bruce Forsyth's Hot...
and Sky One, (also Challenge TV). It licensed many of its shows to the RegGrundy Organisation to be adapted in Australia and Europe. Goodson and Todman's...
soap opera originally broadcast on the Nine Network and produced by the RegGrundy Organisation, it aired from Monday 8 November 1976 until Wednesday 30...
in guest roles. He was often associated with Crawford Productions and RegGrundy Organisation. Born in England, Gill never knew his father. He immigrated...
the Australian soap opera Neighbours from the same original producers RegGrundy Organisation/Fremantle. American comedian Conan O'Brien appeared in a...
1960s and 1970s. Other shows for which he announced regularly include the RegGrundy productions Scrabble and Sale of the Century, as well as the Jack Barry–Dan...