Number 96 (TV series)

Number 96
Title card from a 1975 episode of Number 96 while airing on TV1
GenreSoap opera
Created byDavid Sale
Written by
Ending theme"Paper Boy"
ComposerSteve Gray
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes1,218
Production
Executive producerDon Cash & Bill Harmon
Production locationsNetwork 0–10 Lane Cove and Woollahra
Running time30 minutes per episode (five nights a week)/2x 1 hour episodes per week
Production companyCash Harmon Television
Original release
NetworkThe 0–10 Network
Release13 March 1972 (1972-03-13) 
11 August 1977 (1977-08-11)

Number 96 is an Australian primetime soap opera that aired on 0-10 Network (the forerunner of what is now Network Ten) and was produced by Cash Harmon Television from 13 March 1972 to 11 August 1977, originally broadcast in the primetime slot of 8:30 pm for 5 x half-hour episodes every weeknight, then later 2 x one hour episodes screened per week.

The series follows the lives of the residents and visitors of a fictional four story inner Sydney apartment block located at 96 Lindsay Street, Paddington (hence the title "96")

Originally broadcast in black and white monochrome until halfway through its run. From March 1975, it was seen in colour, after networks switched over to colour television broadcasting in Australia