TV Week

1977 – Andrew McFarlane

Since 2000, Andrew has been best known as a presenter on Play School. "Supermarket aisles are the place I get recognised most," he says. "Kids will call out, 'Hello, Andrew!' I love it."

After graduating from NIDA and starring in an episode of police drama Division 4, Andrew McFarlane shot to fame as eldest son John in WWII series The Sullivans.

"Initially the cast arrived in Melbourne thinking we'd be there for six weeks," Andrew recalls. "But it went to air as we were filming, and it was so popular that we weren't actually allowed to go home!"

He left the show after 18 months and still has copies of TV WEEK stored under his house from that time.

"The haircuts and the flares... ," he laughs, " ... the things that we thought were the cutting edge of 'groovydom'! We were the dags of the day."

Andrew went on to star in iconic shows Patrol Boat and The Flying Doctors, and also appeared as Tash's (Isabel Lucas) father in Home And Away.

More recently, Andrew played Bobby Hoyland in Neighbours, and will star in the play Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? in Brisbane in October.