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5 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
Lovers turned to friends who can't bear to say goodbye, Stephen and Angela are caught in a web of familiarity and affection spun out of words. The threads come loose during the couple's brief sojourn in a Surfers Paradise high-rise.
Episode 2
Larry, Warren and Tony are three friends living the industrialised western suburbs of Sydney, bored by their lives and the kind of work available to them via their car-wrecking yard boss Boyle. So instead of working, they strip stolen cars. but when things go wrong, the trio decide to hit the road.
Episode 3
An elderly woman who is treated as a simple-minded invalid by her family, periodically escapes to sit by the river and listen to the races on her radio. There she befriends Charlie, a young woman from the city who has come with her husband to seek a new life in the country. The two women talk about their lives, and it becomes clear to them both that their experiences are parallel: both are abused by unfaithful and boorish husbands, and yet both are totally dependent on their men for any form of social fulfilment.
Episode 4
A student teacher doesn't accept the teaching methods to be found in a traditional school situation, or the way the principal runs the show. He decides to explore alternative strategies in his drama classes, and along the way gets entangled with other members of the teaching staff, including a brief fling with his supervising English teacher Anne.
Episode 5
Tells of the conflicts facing Al 'The Bomb' Dawson, a rising Aboriginal boxer preparing to make a challenge for the championship. Despite his trainer's efforts to keep him free from distractions, Al finds a girlfriend among a group of activist University students who use him for an Aboriginal rights campaign. At the same time, his own people criticise him for turning his back on his kin for the sake of a shot at the world welterweight title.