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Acropolis Now — Storyline

Acropolis Now was an Australian sitcom set in a Greek cafe in Melbourne of the same name that ran for 63 episodes from 1989 to 1992 on the Seven Network. It was created by Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares, who also starred in the series. They were already quite well known for their comedy stage show, Wogs out of Work. The title is a play on the film Apocalypse Now. Each episode was 30 minutes in length and filmed in front of a live audience.

Jim's father asks him to run the family business, the Acropolis café, when he suddenly leaves Australia to return to his homeland Greece. The series centres around the activities of the cafe staff. Greek Jim Stephanidis, is the immature owner and his best friend, Spaniard Ricky Martinez is the sensible manager. Memo is the traditional Greek waiter, Liz is the liberated Australian waitress. Skip is the naïve new cook from the bush and Manolis is the stubborn cook from the old cafe. 'Hilarity' prevails from the clash of cultures and beliefs.

Jim's hairdresser cousin Effie, played by Mary Coustas, became a hugely popular and enduring character during the run of the show. Coustas later reprised the role for several TV specials and series including Effie, Just Quietly, an SBS comedy / interview show, and Greeks on the Roof, a short-lived Greek-Australian version of the British talk show The Kumars at No. 42.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: Simon Palomares, George Kapiniaris
• Starring: Nick Giannopoulos, George Kapiniaris, Mary Coustas, Simon Palomares

Acropolis Now — Series Details

Acropolis Now — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Old Bar, New Bar (1989-08-09) — Kostas leaves Cafe neo acropolis in his son Jim's hands and heads home to Greece after 23 years in Australia for a well deserved holiday.Kostas asks Jim's friend Rick to look after
• E2: The Proxy Blues (1989-08-16) — Manolis the chef doesn't like the new chef Gavin 'Skippy ' Farrell. Memo is still being rude to the customers,& Jim is spending all the profits. Jim gets a call from his Mum to t
• E3: The Martinez Inquiry (1989-09-27) — Rick puts a stop to Jim's 'freebies'. He's giving away too much free coffee and the business is suffering.
• E4: The Trouble With Mothers (1989-10-04) — It's the day of the prestigiuos Waiters' Race, the one day of the year Memo has been looking forward to. In the past he's come third, second, BUT never first, always losing out to
• E5: It's Academic (1989-09-20) — Jim tries to arrange a double date with Ricky, but he's not interested, Jim thinks Uni has ruined Ricky. A lady customer walks in & Jim & Memo try to chat her up. Ricky recognise
• E6: It's Not Unusual (1989-09-13) — Jim books famous Greek heart throb Con Jones to perform at the cafe.Memo recalls the time when there were 2 singing waiters at the cafe neo acropolis & he was one of them. He could
• E7: The Key to Her Heart (1989-09-06) — Liz is going to a Fabien society meeting & Jim wants to come because he's a big fan of Fabian. After embarasing Liz at the meeting,they return to the cafe to get something and Ji
• E8: Easter Greek Style (1989-08-23) — Easter is coming up & the time of fasting is upon them.That means no meat, cheese, alcohol,sex. Memo is finding it difficult to abstain from all these things. Manolis is betting
• E9: Three Skips and a Joey (1989-10-11) — Liz bets Jim $10 he can't 'pick up' a girl in the cafe. Jim tries the first girl he sees & starts to 'chat her up'. When she stands up though, she's heavily pregnant.! Liz wins the
• E10: Bucklovers (1989-08-30) — Jim has to organise a buck's night for his cousin but has never done it before. He doesn't recognise him when he & his fiance Gina arrive at the cafe.While he's organising the buck
• E11: Writers Block (1989-10-18) — Jim gets his picture in Vibrations Discos magazine & Liz wants to go there to see what it's like. Epsilon walks in to the cafe & Sophie & Effie swoon. Liz has a look & falls head

Season 2

• E1: Cappuchino Catastrophe (1990-08-30) — Rick takes a week off for a quick holiday to the Whitsunday Islands. He comes back to find things are not as he left them. Jim had an accident with the cappuchino machine, the ca
• E2: Double Or Nothing (1990-10-11) — Effie bets Liz $10 she won't go out with Jim. Liz asks Jim if he wants to go out with her & he thinks his luck has changed! They go to see a movie at the Drive-In & Jim makes a
• E3: Black Ain't Black (1990-10-04) — Liz goes away for the weekend & Ula a Koori girl stands in for her. Memo thinks Koori is an island somewhere & tries to find it on a map of the world. Jim thinks Ula is African/
• E4: Olives Ain't Olives (1990-10-18) — Jim gets a chain-letter in the mail & rips it up when Liz & Rick tell him they are rubbish & should be ignored. Shortly after, Jim's father rings from Greece to tell Jim he has
• E5: St. Memo's Fire (1990-08-23) — Memo becomes a Greek Orthodox priest after attending a Greek religious festival. While on his Priest 'P plates' he has to abstain from sex, drink & losing his temper for 40 days &
• E6: Ms Acropolis (1990-09-06) — When good looking girls start coming into the cafe & asking for Jim, Memo wants to know what's going on. Jim's organising a beauty contest to bring customers into the cafe. When Ef
• E7: Carmen, I'm Too Bizet (1990-09-27) — Rick,Jim & Memo are going to a soccer game when Rick's friend Rosetta visits & asks Rick if he can do her a favour. She needs a babysitter for her daughter Carmen. Rick has to stay
• E8: Ring Of Confidence (1990-10-25) — Jim asks Rick for his opinion about a ring, it's his Grandmother's & he wants to sell it to buy a new muffler for the monaro. Rick tells him to ask Liz. Jim gives Liz the ring and
• E9: Jobs For The Girls (1990-08-16) — Effie & Sophie ask Jim for a job at the cafe, Rick tells them they can't afford to hire more staff just now. Liz & Rick suggest they try the employment agency. Jim tells Effie if
• E10: Shakespeare Was A Greek (1990-09-20) — Liz takes Jim to see a Shakespeare play. Jim liked it so much he wants to stage shakespeare in the cafe. Romeo & Juliet will never be the same again.! Jim pays a theatre critic
• E11: My Sister Aphroula (1990-09-13) — Memo's looking for a husband for his sister Aphroula,a lady customer writes Memo a note & he asks her for a date.(she doesn't speak much english though.) Jim phones his friend Ha
• E12: The Taxman Cometh (1990-11-01) — The Tax Office wants to audit the cafe's books & Rick has to check to see if everything is in order. The tax man is threatening big trouble & Jim gets a date with a good looking
• E13: Ricky Sings The Blues (1990-11-08) — Rick is faced with a dilemma to stay at the cafe or join a jazz band. An old friend of Rick's (Jack) arrives at the cafe and invites him to tour with his band to Europe, Rick says

Season 3

• E1: Harry Who Didn't (1991-02-21) — Jim's friendship with Harry, the bouncer from Vibrations, is under threat when Harry's new girlfriend prefers Jim. To fend off her persistant advances, Jim needs to find a girl who
• E2: The Goddess (1991-02-28) — Memo is in love with his hairdresser but can't seem to tell her. Like a love-struck idiot, he seeks advice from Jim.
• E3: A Fistful of Cabana (1991-03-07) — When Jim's father loses the café in a card game in Greece, the new Italian owner puts his nephew in charge.
• E4: On the Waiter Front (1991-03-14) — A strike is called when Effie challenges the system and Memo is torn between the Greek Waiters Association and the café.
• E5: Teenage Mutant Ninja Greeks (1991-03-21) — Memo, desperate to marry his sister off, organises a blind date with a soccer player.
• E6: The Kid (1991-03-28) — Jim's young cousin is wagging school and when his teacher arrives at the café, she runs into Memo — an old flame from a Greek holiday. To set a good example for his cousin, Jim ask
• E7: The Best of Enemies (1991-04-11) — Jim's long-time rival Vinnie has opened a new bistro and is hanging around the café trying to recruit Liz. Counting on the strength on his new cook, Jim challenges Vinnie to an arm
• E8: Throw Memo from a Plane (1991-04-18) — Memo's mother sends an uncle from Greece to encourage Memo to finally marry. In desperation, he agrees to have Effie to pose as his fiancée.
• E9: Snow Job, Part One (1991-04-25) — Jim is excited because he's off to the snow with Memo and Alfredo. To cover during his absense, Jim hires a replacement. Don Santo pledges his love for Liz while the boys discover
• E10: Snow Job, Part Two (1991-05-02) — At the snow, the accommodation leaves a little to be desired making Jim's organisation look pretty awful. With an escaped lunatic on the loose, the guys' suspicions run wild.
• E11: Midnight Expresso (1991-05-09) — The factory down the road is polluting the environment, and Liz organises a protest that puts Jim in jail.
• E12: Back in the USSR (1991-05-16) — Is Unkrainian exchange student Uri really just a student, or is he a KGB spy as Jim suspects? To out-spy the spy, Jim introduces Uri to Ef… Charlene, the "typical Australian woma
• E13: Acropolis Law (1991-05-23) — Effie and Sophie, in the eternal quest for perfect hair, experiment with a new product. When things go wrong Effie takes legal action against Sophie.

Season 4

• E1: Oh Suzanna (1992-02-13) — Jim's hormone driven employment policy leads him to trouble again when he causes his ex-flame Suzanna – a high powered marketing executive – to lose her job. That's when Jim takes
• E2: Phantom of the Acropolis (1992-02-20) — Jim's rival Vinnie has agreed to buy the Acropolis Now from Jim's father but the final word rests with Jim. Memo is convinced the café is haunted by his cousin Spiro Kruegernidis.
• E3: Crimes of Fashion (1992-02-27) — Effie and Sophie hold their hair and fashion show at the café but when Suzanna steals the show, Effie tries to poison her with haircare products. Jim and Memo sabotage Suzanna's se
• E4: Twenty One Today (1992-03-05) — Effie is determined to make Sophie's 21st a birthday she'll never forget… if only they could get past the bouncer at Vibrations.
• E5: The Letter (1992-03-12) — The guys are convinced Suzanna is behind a letter printed in a magazine from a woman seeking dating advice in regards to her three co-workers. Effie is in search of advice on buyin
• E6: Wheel of Shame (1992-03-19) — To pay for his sister's return to Greece, Memo appears on the game show Wheel of Language. Suzanna forces Jim to get rid of his magazine collection but while going throught them on
• E7: Full Metal Jerks (1992-03-26) — Jim puts Memo through training after he is drafted into the Greek army. Suzanna raids the annual party of the marketing company that fired her.
• E8: Four Eyes (1992-04-02) — Jim has to wear glasses or give up driving his Monaro but when the jokes get to be too much, Suzanna takes it upon herself to transform a bespectacled Jim from dag to snag (sensiti
• E9: Devil in Disguise (1992-04-09) — When Suzanna's abrasive former colleague has car trouble outside the café she sees an opportunity to get her old job back. Suzanna pretends to be engaged to Alfredo
• E10: The King and I (1992-04-16) — Memo's discovery of Elvis' reincarnated frozen head in the kitchen freezer coincides with a visit from the health inspector. Inspired by Elvis' appearance, the pair make plans to t
• E11: Desperately Seeking Effie (1992-05-07) — Effie ends up in hospital after she falls victim to a practical joke Memo intended for Jim. Left with no memory of her previous life, Jim sees an opportunity to create a new Effie,
• E12: Deaf Jammed (1992-05-14) — Jim takes advantage of his friends' generosity by pretending to have lost his hearing. When they discover the truth, Memo, Alfredo and Suzanna trick Jim into believing they are pla
• E13: The Last Temptation (1992-05-21) — After a near-death experience, Alfredo decides it is time he embraced his faith. Meanwhile, Jim and Suzanna divert their sexual energies as they continue to deny their feelings for

Season 5

• E1: Dream Baby (1992-08-12) — Jim has a horrible dream — he is married to Suzanna. They have one screaming baby, another on the way, and he has traded in his Monaro… for a station wagon! Perhaps it's not the
• E2: Love (1992-08-19) — Jim panics when Suzanna's parents want to meet their future son-in-law. Her parents are less than impressed by Jim and set out to show just how incompatible he and their daughter a
• E3: Hair Razors (1992-08-26) — A Swedish car expert and photographer, Lars Larson, falls in love with Effie while helping Jim rebuild his Monaro. Despina sends Memo a series of provocative photos from her travel
• E4: The Other Man (1992-09-02) — Memo has had enough of Despina's flirting with sports stars and decides to show her who's boss. Suzanna asks Jim to throw away his "little black book". Despina tries to make Memo j
• E5: The Lars Supper (1992-09-09) — Wrestlemania 17 fever grips Jim and Memo and nothing is going to stop them watching the show on TV. Lars gives Effie an ultimatum: admit she loves him or he'll leave. Suzanna and D
• E6: Mum's the Word (1992-09-16) — Jim hides his relationship with Suzanna when his mother returns unexpectedly from Greece. As Suzanna threatens to walk out, Effie needs to find a way for her salon customers to wal
• E7: Coward's End (1992-09-23) — There's a new girl in Jim's life, maybe even a wife! AFter watching Jim propose to another woman, Suzanna leaves for a once-in-a-lifetime job managing a resort in Cairo. Memo almos
• E8: The Battle of the Sexists (1992-09-30) — Memo refuses to accompany Despina to Greece and his reputation as a notorious Greek stud is ruined. To make matters worse, Despina declines his marriage proposal.
• E9: Torn Between Two Lovers (1992-10-07) — Jim panics when both Suzanna and Julia accept Jim's marriage proposal. Despina agrees to accompany Memo to the Greek Waiters Picnic.
• E10: Stupidstition (1992-10-14) — Memo asks Despina to quit her job when a fortune teller reveals a looming tragedy in her life. Jim searches for a best man for his wedding — both of them.
• E11: Confessions of a Hair Gel Goddess (1992-10-21) — After helping Jim keep Julia and Suzanna from meeting one another, Effie finally confesses her love for Lars. Memo receives his first fax from Despina and Lars reveals a secret abo
• E12: Here Come The Brides (Part 1) (1992-10-28) — Jim is kept busy planning two weddings but eventually must admit to Memo that he doesn't actually love Suzanna or Julia. Memo throws a disastrous buck's party.
• E13: Here Come The Brides (Part 2) (1992-11-04) — Jim fails to show up for his weddings. Lars returns and Despina announces her love for Memo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Acropolis Now have? 5 season(s) with 63 episodes.

Who created Acropolis Now? Simon Palomares, George Kapiniaris.

Where can I watch Acropolis Now? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.