Filmography: Welcher and Welcher

"I don't need to practice law, I speak it fluently!"

Click here to go to the official Welcher and Welcher website

Creator: Shaun Micallef
Producers: Nick Murray and Shaun Micallef
Executive Producer: Geoff Portmann
Writers: Shaun Micallef, Gary McCaffrie and Michael Ward
Director: Ted Emery

Welcher & Welcher was on ABC TV Thursdays at 8.30 pm. A comedy about the law firm presided over by Quentin Welcher (our lovely Shaun). A solicitor with a massive ego, he is a pompous, accident-prone fool and a terrible lawyer to boot.

Click here to download and listen to a 23 minute interview about Shaun.

The episodes were as follows:

Episode One - Prejudice
ABC TV Thursday 6 February, 8.30pm
Quentin defends a controversial painting and the son of the most horrible man alive, Claude Buzzo. The articled clerk has locked herself in her office and the painters still have finished their three-week office makeover.
GUEST STARS - Tom Budge, Jim Daly

Episode Two - Adam's Rib
ABC TV Thursday 13 February, 8.30pm
Quentin wants to sack the new solicitor, Peter/Paul for being too nice, but instead ends up accepting an invitation to dinner. Kate and Quentin team up to help two of their friends divorce. As a result, Kate decides to spice up their own marriage with some fantasy role-play.
GUEST STARS - Colin Lane, Andrew Curry, Anne Phelan

Episode Three - Favours ABC TV Thursday 20 February, 8.30pm Kate has a win in the industrial court defending a group of textile workers, who then offer to make her a dress for the Women-In-The-Law Dinner. Quentin does a favour for an old client of his father and learns once and for all that charity doesn't pay.
GUEST STARS - Tony Martin, Roz Hammond

Episode Four - The Winslow Boy
ABC TV Thursday 27 February, 8.30pm
Kate and Quentin's son, Winslow, has been expelled from boarding school and Quentin decides to take his son's case to the school board. But returning to Broadshadows brings back the horrors of his own school experience.
GUEST STARS - Max Gilles, John Stanton, John Flaus

Episode Five - Hypothetically Speaking
ABC TV Thursday 6 March, 8.30pm
Kate and Quentin take a proposal for a televised 'Hypothetical' to the ABC. At the meeting, Quentin is asked to be the legal advisor on the ABC's new drama series.
GUEST STARS - Sigrid Thornton, William McInnes, Rod Mullinar, John Clarke,
CAMEOS BY Ian Henderson and Paul Higgins

Episode Six - White Man's Burden
ABC TV Thursday 13 March, 8.30pm
The drive team from a top-rating radio station meet with Peter/Paul for advice on defamation. The painters bring a worker's compensation claim against the Welchers and Quentin decides to conduct his own covert investigation.
GUEST STARS - Wayne Hope, Scott Brennan, Lawrence Mooney

Episode Seven - Heat
ABC TV Thursday 20 March, 8.30pm
During a power blackout, Quentin locks the entire staff in a stairwell on the hottest day of the year, while Kate has trouble on the way to pick up a Japanese investor from the airport.
GUEST STARS - Alan Cassell, Marty Sheargold

Episode 8 - Siblings-In-Law
ABC TV Thursday 27 March, 8.30pm
Mr Buzzo is charged with armed robbery and attempted murder and the Wignall and Carrick case is finally going to trial. Peter/Paul's wife goes into labour but it's Quentin who is left holding the baby, with the two cases being heard simultaneously and no other barrister to assist. And the painters conceive a diabolical plan to extract their revenge on Welcher & Welcher.
GUEST STARS - Frank Wilson, Deborah Kennedy, Rod Mullinar, Roz Hammond

The following bio of Shaun's character is completly taken from the official website...

The adopted son of itinerant carnival workers Albert and Prudence Welcher, Quentin's childhood was spent surrounded by sawdust, boiled hot-dogs and the incessant caterwaul of Bach blaring from amusement rides like the Cha Cha and the Angry-Go-Round.

Carny life was an exciting life for a young gypsy boy - travelling from one shit-hole to the next with his parents, scrubbing vomit from the seats of the Regurgitator every Thursday, getting paid in fairy floss. There was little time for any formal education, for Quentin was expected to help out in any way he could. Some days he was Ghoul #2 or Dangling Thing #3 in the Ghost Train; other days he would tattoo his father. His favourite job was assisting his mother on the Knock Em' Down concession. Quentin would hand out darts to customers, who would then try and knock down a pile of bricks. If anyone successfully knocked down all nine bricks (in a single throw) then they won a dart.

Mondays was Quentin's day off. He liked nothing better than to spend the morning in the circus freaks' caravan, laughing at their freakishness and listening to their incredible stories. Of all the carnival freaks, Quentin most enjoyed spending time with 'The Bearded Lawyer', who would spin fantastical tales of trials and acquittal, plea bargains, sentences and gavels. Later, of course, it turned out that this 'man' was in fact Quentin's own father, and that his son was destined to follow in his footsteps (as a lawyer, not as a carnival freak or indeed, a cultivator of facial hair).

Did You Know: Quentin has never forgotten those carnival days (except for a brief period in March, 1986). Last year he established the Carnival Freak Foundation, a funding body dedicated to preserving the well being of carnival freaks everywhere (except pinheads, of course).

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