| Genre: | Soap opera Serial |
| Creator: | James Workman |
| Starring: | Tony Bazell Jill Forster Noel Trevarthen Enid Lorimer |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Num Episodes: | 135 |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes (4 times weekly) |
| Network: | ATN-7 |
Motel is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Seven Network's ATN-7 studios from 1968 to 1969. Motel, like British serial Crossroads dealt with a family who ran a motel. In this case the Gillian family running the fictional Greenfields Motel.
The series had a cast of thirteen regulars and required three days in the studio each week. Each episode was thirty minutes and the program screened at midday four days a week, with the episode repeated late at night. The show was shot in black-and-white. It had a run of 135 episodes. Writers included Creswick Jenkinson.[1]
According to Richard Lane, who worked on the series as a writer, the series was very successful as a day time program, which was how it was conceived. But when Channel Seven management "became over enthusiastic and repeated it at nighttime it was a disaster."[2]