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| - The Games may refer to:
* The Games (Filmation episode), an episode of the Filmation cartoon.
* The Games (DIC episode), an episode of the Jetlag cartoon.
- The Games was an Australian Mockumentary television series about the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) on the run-up to the Sydney Olympics in 2000. It had two seasons of thirteen episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. The main characters were:
* John (played by John Clarke), the "Olympic Supremo', and apparently a former Olympic champion (though he never said what he got his medal for)
* Bryan (played by Bryan Dawe), the head accountant
* Gina (played by Gina Riley), the head of marketing
* Nicholas (played by Nicholas Bell), the Secretary to the Minister for the Olympics In one episode John Howard played himself. That's John Howard the actor, who is not the same person as John Howard (then the prime minister of Australia). In that episode John Howard [the actor] gave an apology about the treatment of indigenous Australians that John Howard [the prime minister] had been notoriously refusing to give. (Since then Kevin Rudd, the succeeding prime minister, has given the apology). Season 1 of The Games was released on DVD in 2005, and Season 2 is now out in Australia. In 2011, Channel 9 was going to air The Games: London Calling, where the cast are hired to help with the London 2012 Olympics. Unfortunately, it got cancelled. There's a possibility that London Calling might get picked up by another network, though. Cross your fingers.
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