I don't know what possed me, but the other day something reminded me of the show A Country Practice (ACP). This was the kind of show that if you weren't watching it, your tv must've been broken! According to Wikipedia ACP had "8-10 million viewers weekly". At the time the Australian population was 15 million. It aired from 1981-1993 on channel seven and 1994-1994 on channel 10.
ACP launched the careers of many Australian actors, some who are still acting today. I found a few episodes online and just had to watch them, oh my god! You don't realise how much society both changes and stands still as time passes!
One episode I watched featured Brendan the male nurse, he was referred to as a p00ft@ by a patient who also then continued to refer to him as girly for the remainder of the episode. Could you imagine if this kind of dialogue was aired today?!?
The other episode I watched featured a woman who was ill, she stated that she knew that there was no more that modern medicine could do to make her comfortable and when the pain became too much, she would take an overdose of her pain medication. She went on to say that it was her body, her choice and that animals aren't allowed to suffer at the end the way she will. Thirty years on and we're still having this same conversation!
Between all the drama happening in the hospital and out on the farm, some snippets that had me either in awe or laughing like a lunatic were that every time Shirley was at home - usually under her pyramid, she was downing glasses of wine like water and lighting up cigarettes at every given opportunity LOL! One episode had a number of the actors performing CPR on a patient, lol they all looked like they were convulsing!!! Then there was Frank, the police officer, he attended a car accident. There was an open can of beer in the car of which he tipped out. The"beer" was so clearly water lol They could've added some food colouring lol
I might go and see if I can find some more retro tv shows to watch LOL!
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