Biography

Dave Worthington has been in the business of scriptwriting and editing television movies, series and serials for over thirty years. After several years writing comedy for theatre restaurant, he joined Grundy Television in 1979 to work on Prisoner (Cell Block H) in Melbourne. He moved to Sydney in 1983 to work on Drama Development for PBL Productions, the drama arm of the Nine Network and later, as a freelance writer and script editor, he worked on many major Australian series and serials, including Home & Away and Blue Heelers.

In 1991 he re-joined The Grundy Organization, co-producing Neighbours and working in Drama Development not only in Australia but also in New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and South Africa. He was script consultant in the development and early production stages of Shortland Street, a strip serial which became the most popular locally produced TV drama ever in New Zealand.

Following an interest in computer graphics and 3D animation, he helped develop an interactive drama series called Gravity Angels for distribution on the Internet. He has written and developed scripts for children's cartoon series, a novel for children and edited crossword puzzle magazines for Pacific Magazines.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dave Worthington