Over 1,000 episodes and 12 years, this soap opera taught a lot to the nine million Australians who tuned in each week to see what was happening in Wandin Valley
When you think of educational television, you think of Sesame Street and Playschool, maybe Degrassi Junior High if you had boomer parents and no access to What’s Happening to Me books.
Let me introduce you to A Country Practice, which you might have watched, but didn’t realise was brainwashing you with its kind-hearted, antiwar, pro-woman, lefty agenda. Over 1,088 episodes from 1981 to 1993, it sucked you into learning about all sorts of health and social problems in our society, through the eyes of characters you could be in love with no matter what age you were. You’re a 39-year-old stay-at-home mum? No worries, here’s Dr Terence Elliott.
“An unexpected and ironic fringe benefit” of being Murray was that Foley “found that I had reached a far bigger mainstream audience in Australia with my message about land rights and justice than I ever had in all of my previous political work. And the positive audience response was such that it was almost two years before I could get on public transport in Melbourne without being pestered for an autograph or a political chat.”7.
Actor Joyce Jacobs was an extra in the first season of ACP, but she was so delightful and funny that writers began asking if they could give her a line or two. Esme Watson was born. In her first few seasons, she’s the ancient cliche of nosy “spinsterhood” ; by the end, if Esme Watson is a spinster, sign us all up. She stands up against the women’s church group who’ve ousted a woman whose brother has Aids. She cares for a drug addict who most have turned their back on.
To grow up in the eighties and nineties was to be shit-scared of heroin. Personally, I can attest to not even trying marijuana until well into university because of Go Ask Alice and these episodes of A Country Practice. The daughter of beloved Dr Terence Elliott , Sophie is a beautiful and intelligent foreign correspondent, who became a heroin addict after experimenting with drugs overseas. No matter how hard she tries, nothing is more powerful than heroin.
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