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Dinner with the Family (1959)

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Australia
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How it feels

An English actress makes her Australian TV debut in a play about a family dinner. The story was filmed in Melbourne in the late 1950s.

datedlow-keytheatricalnostalgicmodestlightearnestmildly dramatic

What happens

Dinner with the Family is a 1959 Australian TV play. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. It featured English star Jessie Matthews in her first Australian TV appearance – she was touring the country at the time – and was shot in Melbourne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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