Family and Friends

Back in 1990, before every Australian soap opera became an automatic runaway hit in the UK, there were a number of Aussie series’ that sucked big time and DIDN’T run for a decade. This is one of them. Dealing with love and loss between the young members of Italian-Australian and Anglo-Australian families, Family and Friends ran for a season and dropped off the radar, unwatched, unmissed, unremembered, and undeserving of tears. Longtime Australian sex sirenAbigail starred, which might have been enough to guarantee a viewing audience in 1975 but not in the 90’s. A more recent turn for the aging sex kitten as sex therapist Bambi Chute (I’m not kidding) in the saucy soap Chances proved about as successful.