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'Mac (played by Bill Kerr) is a retired seahand, but cannot adjust to life on land. He talks his lifelong seafaring friend Tunny (Deryck Barnes) into sharing in the purchase of the vessel 'Afrodite'. Together they take on an aboriginal [sic] deck-hand to help them.

'Through the Afrodite, Mac rediscovers a purpose in life. He fears giving in to old age and see the boat as a way of stalling the inevitable.

'At a time when he needs them the most, Mac turns away from his wwife [sic], his best friend and, ironically, it is Lance, the aboriginal [sic] deck-hand, who understands his plight.'

Source:

'Top-line cast for series', The Canberra Times, 23 July 1984, p.6

Professor Dorton Serry, an esteemed philosopher and lover of all women, is the type of man who likes to have complete control over his world and those in it. So how does he react when the women in his life step out of their allotted roles and challenge his prejudices and philosophies?

'A young dancer witnesses a mass drowning tragedy at a beach and has to watch one young man die on the sand despite intense efforts to save him.

'Her distress turns to abject fear and confusion, however, when she learns these events actually took place some 45 years before.

'A clever, offbeat mystery, Kindred Spirits links two actual catastrophes in this fictional story about a young woman caught between reality and a strange tie with the past.'

Source: ABC (http://www.abc.net.au/abccontentsales/s1169477.htm). Sighted: 1/6/2012).

'Steve is the leader of a group of teenagers who have too much idle time and few prospects until he meets Elly. She offer shim love and hope. She also proposes a possible future–escape. But the death of a friend forces Steve and Elly to confront their oppressors, with devastating consequences.'

Source:

[Television guide], The Canberra Times, 19 August 1984, p.14.

'When shy young Alison Berger reluctantly agrees to date one of her co-workers, she little dreams that his interest in her will become a frightening obsession.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 24/1/2014)

'Kevin Saunders is a builder in a small NSW country town.

'He has chosen to remain single but recently has been writing to a number of Filipina pen-pals and has asked one of them to marry him.

'[...] 'Mail Order Bride' tells the story of the struggle Kevin (played by Ray Meagher) and his wife Ampy (Chariot Ortez) have to maintain their marriage.

'The people of the town are racist and sexist, and Ampy soon finds herself caught between two cultures, having sympathy for the Aboriginals but wanting to be accepted as white.

'She suffers severe culture shock and chronic isolation and when violence erupts in the town, her aboriginal [sic] friend Iris (Justine Saunders) tells Ampy that the time has come for her to decide which side she is on.

'But for Ampy, the choice has already been made.'

Source:

'Final move of series', The Canberra Times, 27 August 1984, p.1.