Lane End (1972)

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Australia

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How it feels

This series follows a group of characters in 1970s Paddington, Sydney. It shows the daily lives and relationships of people like a Greek-Australian couple running a corner store, their university student daughter, a used-car salesman, and a nurse.

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What happens

Lane End is a 1972 Australian TV series. It is a follow-up to Bellbird, made by many of the same creative team. It is set in Paddington, New South Wales and told the continuing story of a group of characters who worked and lived there. Regular characters included a Greek-Australian and his wife (Mr and Mrs Pappas) who ran the corner store; their daughter, Angela, who was a first year Arts student at University and battled with problems of conflict with her traditional parents; a man who owned a used-car lot (Ray Dunlop, played by John Meillon); a young man who was an accountant by day and a jazz pianist at night; and a nursing sister. Set in Paddington, Sydney, but with a structure that facilitated movement around Sydney: Vernon said in an interview that 'The used-car man, Ray (played by John Meillon, and his wife (played by Carole Skinner) live in Woollahra, and his mother-in-law lives at Lindfield, which moves the characters around to different suburbs. The nurse was made a nurse so she could move around Paddington during the daytime, when office workers are at their desks. Among the other characters are city workers and young couples who earn their living in modern offices and escape at 5 p.m. to their Paddington terrace houses and Edwardiana.' The Pappas family story of conflicting interests when the children reject their Greek way of life. (Canberra Times, 10 April 1972, p. 17) The serial did not continue beyond the originally commissioned batch of seven half-hour episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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