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Puberty Blues is an Australian classic which chronicles a special moment of our history. In the early 1970s, the middle baby boomers were coming into their adolescence and early adulthood. The sexual revolution was in full flow. In America "teenagerdom" had come into its own in the sixties. It happened here in the seventies, with the arrival of drugs and the anti-Vietnam fed youth rebellion. And the wild mood finds its apotheosis in surf culture. Puberty Blues is a picture of Australian suburban life in revolution as the wild kids get their rocks off, exploring the worlds of the parents in a context where money and loans are much cheaper, divorce is much easier, full employment and prosperity abound, conventional morality is shifting and everything is endlessly possible. Based on the novel by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.
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Episode 1
Summer 1979. Joined-at-the-hip teenagers Debbie and Sue are back. They're having the time of their lives, hanging out on Cronulla beach with the Greenhills gang, but there's been a power shift. Sue has taken up surfing and Gary has become something of a leader. While he and Debbie are still going strong, Sue is still in want of a boyfriend, and Cheryl is in want of an abortion. It's all change for the parents too. Pam and Roger's finances are in trouble when she accidentally maxes out their bankcard. Increasingly disenchanted with his new advertising job, Roger eventually disgraces himself and is fired. Meanwhile, things for Gary's mum Yvonne are looking up. Now that Ferris has gone, she has taken a lover and feels free for the first time in her life. But a misunderstanding threatens to change the fate of Debbie and Sue's friendship forever.