It Spans Generations


Hanna Barbera distributed this in the US. So, when I was a kid, I'd be blithely watching "Huckleberry Hound" or "Yogi Bear" — and then, suddenly, it'd be RETURN TO EDEN time. And I'd get thrust into a lusty Australian world of high fashion, plastic surgery, adultery, murder, beer drinking, and crocodile attacks. Not to mention James Reyne's greasy shirtless portrayal of a man fond of going down on his alcoholic married girlfriend.

I absolutely love this miniseries, and I'm watching it right now on YouTube (what, like, 36 years later?). Things I didn't notice as a kid:

Wait, she makes $3K off those opals and somehow manages to pay to extensive, in-house plastic surgery? Even IF some of it were funded by Medicare, Stephanie is awfully vague about who she is, and where she comes from. I'm 38 years old now — if I quit smoking, do some stretch exercises, and get a Pat Benetar haircut, can I be a supermodel too?

Jilly seemed like a crazy drunk to me as a kid, but now that I'm a tad bit older, I see myself in her ... about three times a week?

Where the hell did Stephanie get that pre-Tara wig she sports toward the end? Did the aborigines supply her with that?

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Lol very true.

I watched it as a 10 yo kid too. Now I am 40 and although I still can say it is a "cult" series I can see much more flaws (I guess 30 years ago it was pretty flawless to me, same as every episode of Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound) :)


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