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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 290164" data-attributes="member: 673"><p style="text-align: center"><strong>All The Way - 1988 to 1989</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>[MEDIA=youtube]53xVsE8iw9w[/MEDIA]</strong></p><p></p><p>Having already mined soapy drama from the 1920's (<em>Carson's Law</em>) and the 1940's (<em>The Sullivans</em>), Crawford's turned their attention to the 1960's for their next period soap. <em>All The Way</em> took it's title from a quote by Prime Minister Harold Holt, when discussing Australia's support for American troops in Vietnam. A 6 part miniseries would serve as the introduction to the show, followed by a 26 episode weekly soap. </p><p></p><p>The miniseries had a rather farfetched opening storyline involving journalist Alan Scott (Martin Sacks) returning from the UK in November 1963, having broken the story of the Profumo scandal. As he stepped off the plane, he heard that JFK had been shot, phoned the hospital in Dallas and was then the first to relay the news to Prime Minister Robert Menzies. After all of this political breaking news, Alan finally returned to his family including taxi driver dad Ray (Dennis Miller) and Beatles obsessed siblings Christine (Lisa Hensley) and Barry (Dominic McDonald). Alan's mother Lorna (Maggie Millar) was one of three sisters around which the ongoing drama would revolve. Her older sister was conservative widow Madelaine Vaughn (Diana Davidson) while another sister Elaine (Rowena Wallace) was an unhappily married politician's wife. She fell into an affair with his trade union opponent Mike (Grigor Taylor) and spent much of her time trying to hide the fling from husband Phillip (Peter Sumner), son Lindsay (Ben Mendelsohn) and daughter Diana (Jacqueline McKenzie). </p><p></p><p>The miniseries aired to lacklustre ratings, perhaps overshadowed in the Aussie saga stakes by the mega hit <em>The Dirtwater Dynasty</em>, which aired the week prior. Knowing they were on to a loser, Nine waited until the summer period to burn off the 26 episodes they'd already ordered. As the weekly series began, Elaine had a change of heart about running out on her husband and returned to the family home, not batting an eyelid when daughter Diana had been swapped out for daughter Penny (Dannii Minogue). A young Vince Colosimo was upped to regular status as Christine's fiancé while Noel Trevarthen showed up as Madelaine's missing presumed dead husband. Airing sporadically in two hour blocks whenever the cricket schedules allowed, the show's ratings actually improved but the will to make more episodes wasn't there. The final storyline saw Lindsay forced by his father to register for national service, only for him to go on the run.</p><p></p><p>There were many criticisms levelled at the show - the sets looked too kitsch, the 60's references in the script too laboured, the show felt unrealistically old fashioned. However Rowena Wallace reflects on the experience with humour "<em>Ironically, years ago I'd a reading with a clairvoyant who said 'You're going to marry a politician and have to wear gloves and hats and you'll hate it' And I did!"</em>. She also laughed at the fact that her wardrobe was based on Jackie Kennedy's, saying that their attempt at the famous pale pink outfit made her look like "<em>a crate of apricots on two sticks"</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 290164, member: 673"] [CENTER][B]All The Way - 1988 to 1989 [MEDIA=youtube]53xVsE8iw9w[/MEDIA][/B][/CENTER] Having already mined soapy drama from the 1920's ([I]Carson's Law[/I]) and the 1940's ([I]The Sullivans[/I]), Crawford's turned their attention to the 1960's for their next period soap. [I]All The Way[/I] took it's title from a quote by Prime Minister Harold Holt, when discussing Australia's support for American troops in Vietnam. A 6 part miniseries would serve as the introduction to the show, followed by a 26 episode weekly soap. The miniseries had a rather farfetched opening storyline involving journalist Alan Scott (Martin Sacks) returning from the UK in November 1963, having broken the story of the Profumo scandal. As he stepped off the plane, he heard that JFK had been shot, phoned the hospital in Dallas and was then the first to relay the news to Prime Minister Robert Menzies. After all of this political breaking news, Alan finally returned to his family including taxi driver dad Ray (Dennis Miller) and Beatles obsessed siblings Christine (Lisa Hensley) and Barry (Dominic McDonald). Alan's mother Lorna (Maggie Millar) was one of three sisters around which the ongoing drama would revolve. Her older sister was conservative widow Madelaine Vaughn (Diana Davidson) while another sister Elaine (Rowena Wallace) was an unhappily married politician's wife. She fell into an affair with his trade union opponent Mike (Grigor Taylor) and spent much of her time trying to hide the fling from husband Phillip (Peter Sumner), son Lindsay (Ben Mendelsohn) and daughter Diana (Jacqueline McKenzie). The miniseries aired to lacklustre ratings, perhaps overshadowed in the Aussie saga stakes by the mega hit [I]The Dirtwater Dynasty[/I], which aired the week prior. Knowing they were on to a loser, Nine waited until the summer period to burn off the 26 episodes they'd already ordered. As the weekly series began, Elaine had a change of heart about running out on her husband and returned to the family home, not batting an eyelid when daughter Diana had been swapped out for daughter Penny (Dannii Minogue). A young Vince Colosimo was upped to regular status as Christine's fiancé while Noel Trevarthen showed up as Madelaine's missing presumed dead husband. Airing sporadically in two hour blocks whenever the cricket schedules allowed, the show's ratings actually improved but the will to make more episodes wasn't there. The final storyline saw Lindsay forced by his father to register for national service, only for him to go on the run. There were many criticisms levelled at the show - the sets looked too kitsch, the 60's references in the script too laboured, the show felt unrealistically old fashioned. However Rowena Wallace reflects on the experience with humour "[I]Ironically, years ago I'd a reading with a clairvoyant who said 'You're going to marry a politician and have to wear gloves and hats and you'll hate it' And I did!"[/I]. She also laughed at the fact that her wardrobe was based on Jackie Kennedy's, saying that their attempt at the famous pale pink outfit made her look like "[I]a crate of apricots on two sticks"[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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