Post by Woombai-Yarr My Lord! on Jan 2, 2010 11:39:04 GMT -1
G’day there everybody! 
I’ve been really enjoying checking out this forum as a guest for quite a while now, it seems ever such a nice friendly place and I thought seeing as it’s a shiny new year it was about time I signed up properly and said hello!
Sons and Daughters is one of my all-time favourite shows! I was aware of it when it was screened on ITV in the UK back in the 80s and used to dip in and out of it, and casually watched it when it was repeated on Channel Five a few years later, but then joy of joys I managed to get hold of a copy of the whole series on DVD a couple of years ago and was able to watch it all the way through from episode one for the first time ever! Yay! ;D
I was thrilled when they brought out the two ‘Best of’ compilations and was really excited when it looked like a full Prisoner-style official release was in the pipeline. It was such a shame that never came to fruition, but I guess you never know, with the success of the Prisoner and The Flying Doctors releases in the UK there’s always hope that one day it might happen!
My favourite characters are 'tart with a heart' Fiona and Pat the Rat! I love Fiona’s style knocking back the champers at every available opportunity in her spangly batwing tops and I reckon Pat McDonald was such good value for money as an actress and really threw herself into the role with bells on! I adore her power acting scenes when her emoting cylinders are in overdrive!
And what to say about Patricia?! What a fabulous character too! I love all her scheming and conniving and the twists and turns of her mind bogglesome story arc and her “Boring Beryl” drunken rant has to be one of my absolute favourite TV scenes ever! IMO, Belinda Giblin did such a superb job of making the unbelievable believable when she took on such a hard act to follow and I reckon Rowena Wallace is such a joy to watch!
She’s one of my very favourite actresses. I’ve seen her in a few different things now playing such a range of totally different characters and she always rocks my socks! The versatility of the lady is just stunning! Another of my favourite characters she played was Anne “as mad as a bag of spanners!” Griffin in Prisoner (where’s Meeeeeeeegan?!
) and she’s also worth checking out in an epic mini series from the 1970s called Power Without Glory which features a whole host of familiar faces and is almost like a televisual Who’s Who of anybody who was anybody in the Aussie acting fraternity of the time!
Plus, from Tom Richards’ wonderful Sons and Daughters Interviews DVD that I never tire of watching, she seems like such a fascinating, incredible lady in real life too and I really hope her much anticipated autobiography is eventually published because I bet it would make for an electrifying read! Go Rowena!
In terms of some of the others, Dee Morrell dee-lights me (again Mary Ward – what an actress! Who’d have thought lovely old Mum from Prisoner could be so evil and conniving?!) and I love the comedy turns by Spider Webb (I think Willie Fennell was adorable as an actor!) and May Walters.
Boring Beryl I could slap and shake for being such a drudge – unchain yourself from that kitchen sink, girl! – but I thought the Ruby storyline was absolutely hilarious! I’m laughing like a maniac to myself just now thinking about it! I still can’t believe she ended up with Gordon at the end though! 
Surely a contender for soap’s most beige coupling! Against all those tweedy hues of the old Palmer pad, they were almost like a pair of disembodied heads!
Oh and the genius of the theme tune! “Tears and sadness and happiness!” all in the same breath!
I’m just about to start my second ever complete run through of the show beginning on Monday and I’m so looking forward to it I could almost burst! Just to whet my appetite I’m going to have a little Sons and Daughters evening tonight with all the breathless drama of the Woombai siege...my favourite cliffhanger from any TV show ever! Woombai-Yarr! And Danny Adcock...what another brilliant actor! I loved his turn as Geoff Carlson in Prisoner too! Fancy him taking a fancy to old Po-face though, the dirty dog!
Oh well, that’s me and my love of the show then! I’ll pop in as and when anything comes into my addled head during the course of my watchings! It’s really great to meet you all at last!
I’ve been really enjoying checking out this forum as a guest for quite a while now, it seems ever such a nice friendly place and I thought seeing as it’s a shiny new year it was about time I signed up properly and said hello!
Sons and Daughters is one of my all-time favourite shows! I was aware of it when it was screened on ITV in the UK back in the 80s and used to dip in and out of it, and casually watched it when it was repeated on Channel Five a few years later, but then joy of joys I managed to get hold of a copy of the whole series on DVD a couple of years ago and was able to watch it all the way through from episode one for the first time ever! Yay! ;D
I was thrilled when they brought out the two ‘Best of’ compilations and was really excited when it looked like a full Prisoner-style official release was in the pipeline. It was such a shame that never came to fruition, but I guess you never know, with the success of the Prisoner and The Flying Doctors releases in the UK there’s always hope that one day it might happen!
My favourite characters are 'tart with a heart' Fiona and Pat the Rat! I love Fiona’s style knocking back the champers at every available opportunity in her spangly batwing tops and I reckon Pat McDonald was such good value for money as an actress and really threw herself into the role with bells on! I adore her power acting scenes when her emoting cylinders are in overdrive!
And what to say about Patricia?! What a fabulous character too! I love all her scheming and conniving and the twists and turns of her mind bogglesome story arc and her “Boring Beryl” drunken rant has to be one of my absolute favourite TV scenes ever! IMO, Belinda Giblin did such a superb job of making the unbelievable believable when she took on such a hard act to follow and I reckon Rowena Wallace is such a joy to watch!
She’s one of my very favourite actresses. I’ve seen her in a few different things now playing such a range of totally different characters and she always rocks my socks! The versatility of the lady is just stunning! Another of my favourite characters she played was Anne “as mad as a bag of spanners!” Griffin in Prisoner (where’s Meeeeeeeegan?!
) and she’s also worth checking out in an epic mini series from the 1970s called Power Without Glory which features a whole host of familiar faces and is almost like a televisual Who’s Who of anybody who was anybody in the Aussie acting fraternity of the time! Plus, from Tom Richards’ wonderful Sons and Daughters Interviews DVD that I never tire of watching, she seems like such a fascinating, incredible lady in real life too and I really hope her much anticipated autobiography is eventually published because I bet it would make for an electrifying read! Go Rowena!
In terms of some of the others, Dee Morrell dee-lights me (again Mary Ward – what an actress! Who’d have thought lovely old Mum from Prisoner could be so evil and conniving?!) and I love the comedy turns by Spider Webb (I think Willie Fennell was adorable as an actor!) and May Walters.
Boring Beryl I could slap and shake for being such a drudge – unchain yourself from that kitchen sink, girl! – but I thought the Ruby storyline was absolutely hilarious! I’m laughing like a maniac to myself just now thinking about it!
I still can’t believe she ended up with Gordon at the end though! 
Surely a contender for soap’s most beige coupling! Against all those tweedy hues of the old Palmer pad, they were almost like a pair of disembodied heads! Oh and the genius of the theme tune! “Tears and sadness and happiness!” all in the same breath!
I’m just about to start my second ever complete run through of the show beginning on Monday and I’m so looking forward to it I could almost burst! Just to whet my appetite I’m going to have a little Sons and Daughters evening tonight with all the breathless drama of the Woombai siege...my favourite cliffhanger from any TV show ever! Woombai-Yarr! And Danny Adcock...what another brilliant actor! I loved his turn as Geoff Carlson in Prisoner too! Fancy him taking a fancy to old Po-face though, the dirty dog!
Oh well, that’s me and my love of the show then! I’ll pop in as and when anything comes into my addled head during the course of my watchings! It’s really great to meet you all at last!
