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Bellbird (1967)

Bellbird poster
Genre
soap opera
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 1 episode
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Australian soap opera series follows the lives of people living in a small fictional rural town. The show aired in primetime and ran for many seasons.

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What happens

Bellbird is an Australian soap opera serial broadcast in primetime by the ABC created and co-written by Barbara Vernon, it screened for 10 seasons between 1967 and 1977, and spanned 1,697 episodes. The series centered on the residents of the small fictional Victorian rural township of the series title. Bellbird has the distinction of being the longest-running soap opera/serial ever produced by the ABC. It ended the same year as commercial broadcast series Number 96 and The Box, which had run for six and four years respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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