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Number 96
- Director: Brian Phillis; Peter Benardos
- Writer: David Sale
- Producer: Johnny Whyte
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The first episode was quite enough...
No more.
There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.
The(ir) Blurb...
Drama examining the lives of residents of a Sydney apartment block. Initial storylines focused on adultery, drug use, frigidity, rape, gossip, homosexuality, marriage problems, racism. The building's ground floor delicatessen run by Hungarian Jew Aldo Godolfus and the nearby laundrette provided central meeting places for characters.
Original residents included busty blonde virgin Bev Houghton who fell in love with her neighbour, homosexual lawyer Don Finlayson. Don's flatmate lover was Bruce Taylor, a photographer who was secretly being kept financially by his employer, the bitchy and sardonic Maggie Cameron. Friendly Vera Collins read tarot cards for a living; her husband had deserted her and she would be perpetually unlucky in love. The first openly gay character on Australian TV. Don comes out as gay to Bev (Abigail), who is in love with him.
Cast & Characters
Bunny Brooke as Flo Patterson;
Mike Dorsey as Reg McDonald;
Wendy Blacklock as Edie McDonald;
Pat McDonald as Dorrie Evans;
Chard Hayward as Dudley Butterfield;
Elaine Lee as Vera Collins;
Sheila Kennelly as Norma Whittaker;
Ron Shand as Herbert Evans;
Jeff Kevin as Arnold Feather;
James Elliott as Alf Sutcliffe;
Elisabeth Kirkby as Lucy Sutcliffe;
Frances Hargreaves as Marilyn MacDonald;
Pamela Gibbons as Grace 'Prim' Primrose;
Gordon McDougall as Les Whittaker;
Kit Taylor as Warwick Thompson