Don Burke
Director
Backyard Blitz (2001)
Season 5
Backyard Blitz was an Logie Award winning Australian lifestyle and DIY television program that aired on the Nine Network between 2000 through to 2007 before its cancellation. It was hosted by Jamie Durie and was produced by Don Burke. The show featured a very similar premise to the show Ground Force, in which a team of gardeners employed by the show descend on a supposedly worthy individual's place and improve the garden for the cameras within a specified time limit. This similarity in fact led to legal action being taken by the rival Seven Network who at the time was set to debut an Australian version of Ground Force. The show like many of its other lifestyle brethren was mainly watched by older viewers and was widely derided by younger viewers and television critics. However it was a strong ratings performer. On 14 November 2006 Backyard Blitz was axed by the Nine Network after seven years on air. Don Burke, whose own show Burke's Backyard was broadcast by Nine for nearly 18 years before it was axed in 2004, said his production company was "quite shocked by this decision". In mid-2007 Nine aired the six remaining unaired episodes that were filmed before the show was cancelled. In 2008, it aired a spin-off show Domestic Blitz hosted by Shelley Craft and Scott Cam
Episode 60 min
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S5E1 - Doing it for the Kids
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Feb. 15, 2004, midnight
S5E2 - Jungle Fever
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Feb. 22, 2004, midnight
S5E3 - Lifesavers' Retreat
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Feb. 29, 2004, midnight
S5E4 - Valley Views
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March 7, 2004, midnight
S5E5 - Terrific Thorndale
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March 14, 2004, midnight
S5E6 - Blitz Goes Bowling
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March 21, 2004, midnight
S5E7 - Big Smoke Blitz
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March 28, 2004, midnight
S5E8 - It Could Be You
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Aug. 1, 2004, midnight
S5E9 - Our Little Hero
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Aug. 8, 2004, midnight
S5E10 - Peace Keeper
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Aug. 29, 2004, midnight
S5E11 - It Could Be You 2
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Sept. 5, 2004, midnight
S5E12 - Paralympian's Paradise
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Sept. 12, 2004, midnight
S5E13 - SES Hero
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Sept. 19, 2004, midnight
S5E15 - Chippie's Jubilee
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Oct. 10, 2004, midnight
S5E16 - Super Mum
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Oct. 17, 2004, midnight
S5E17 - Sibling Support
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Oct. 24, 2004, midnight
S5E18 - One Good Turn Deserves Another
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Oct. 31, 2004, midnight
S5E19 - Lest We Forget
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Nov. 7, 2004, midnight
S5E20 - Datsun Passion
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Nov. 14, 2004, midnight
S5E21 - Backyard Blitz 'Live'
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Nov. 21, 2004, midnight
Nine Network
60 min/ep
9120 min
Oct. 15, 2006, midnight
Ended
NR
Action
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