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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 98805" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>Last night I watched the final episodes of the Australian version of <em>Father, Dear Father, </em>completing my run.</p><p></p><p>The Aussie version was fairly consistent. It was never quite as good as the British version (a big reason for this was a lack of larger than life recurring characters, such as Mother, Barbara, Bill, Phillip and Georgie. And there were different writers working on it), but it was enjoyable and captured the spirit of the original as well as such a different concept could.</p><p></p><p>The two new girls grew on me. I retract my earlier comments about them as I did get to tell them apart, grew to find them quite endearing and after the first few episodes they were more interactive with Patrick and Nanny. Sigrid Thornton's sassy attitude felt like she would be a good fit for PCBH, and indeed IMDb tells me she did go on to <em>Prisoner</em> a year later (she also went on to appear in <em>Wentworth</em>). Maybe this is where I know her from. Sally Conabere reminded me of Maureen Teefy from<em> Fame, Grease 2 </em>and<em> Supergirl. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p>While many names and faces were vaguely familiar - as happens with Australian TV - I didn't recognise quite so many soap actors as expected. The ones I did included Ron Shand (<em>Number 96'</em>s Herb), Maggie Kirkpatrick (from <em>Prisoner </em>and<em> Richmond Hill</em>) playing a great blonde and brassy type and Frank Lloyd (<em>Home And Away's </em>Neville) giving good Milquetoast, which was used to good advantage here.</p><p></p><p>I rounded off the run with the 1973 film version. As expected with movie spin-offs from the era, it resurrected a number of threads, scenarios and gags from the UK series without ever being quite as funny as the series itself. Still, very enjoyable and unlike other sitcom films this one largely kept the same cast, locations and sets as well as the gags.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://media.hollywood.com/images/707x1000/7394538.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>My goodness: Cooke and Mortimer <em><u>really</u></em> like Richard O'Sullivan, don't they. Two roles in the series and a major role in the film version. And they also cast him in lead roles in their other series of the era (and just afterwards): <em>Alcock and Gander; Man About The House </em>and<em> Robin's Nest. </em>Throw in <em>Dick Turpin </em>and<em> Me & My Girl </em>and it's no wonder I remember him being a televisual omnipresence during my childhood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 98805, member: 23"] Last night I watched the final episodes of the Australian version of [I]Father, Dear Father, [/I]completing my run. The Aussie version was fairly consistent. It was never quite as good as the British version (a big reason for this was a lack of larger than life recurring characters, such as Mother, Barbara, Bill, Phillip and Georgie. And there were different writers working on it), but it was enjoyable and captured the spirit of the original as well as such a different concept could. The two new girls grew on me. I retract my earlier comments about them as I did get to tell them apart, grew to find them quite endearing and after the first few episodes they were more interactive with Patrick and Nanny. Sigrid Thornton's sassy attitude felt like she would be a good fit for PCBH, and indeed IMDb tells me she did go on to [I]Prisoner[/I] a year later (she also went on to appear in [I]Wentworth[/I]). Maybe this is where I know her from. Sally Conabere reminded me of Maureen Teefy from[I] Fame, Grease 2 [/I]and[I] Supergirl. [/I] While many names and faces were vaguely familiar - as happens with Australian TV - I didn't recognise quite so many soap actors as expected. The ones I did included Ron Shand ([I]Number 96'[/I]s Herb), Maggie Kirkpatrick (from [I]Prisoner [/I]and[I] Richmond Hill[/I]) playing a great blonde and brassy type and Frank Lloyd ([I]Home And Away's [/I]Neville) giving good Milquetoast, which was used to good advantage here. I rounded off the run with the 1973 film version. As expected with movie spin-offs from the era, it resurrected a number of threads, scenarios and gags from the UK series without ever being quite as funny as the series itself. Still, very enjoyable and unlike other sitcom films this one largely kept the same cast, locations and sets as well as the gags. [img]http://media.hollywood.com/images/707x1000/7394538.jpg[/img] My goodness: Cooke and Mortimer [I][U]really[/U][/I] like Richard O'Sullivan, don't they. Two roles in the series and a major role in the film version. And they also cast him in lead roles in their other series of the era (and just afterwards): [I]Alcock and Gander; Man About The House [/I]and[I] Robin's Nest. [/I]Throw in [I]Dick Turpin [/I]and[I] Me & My Girl [/I]and it's no wonder I remember him being a televisual omnipresence during my childhood. [/QUOTE]
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