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80's Aussie mini-series/soap ???

SkarpoSkarpo
edited June 2007 in Chit chat
Anyone remember this one?

Don't remember if this was an ongoing soap or just two seasons/series.

Early on in the show this lady, who owns/runs a beauty-empire of some sorts, gets eaten by a crocodile and her rival illegally takes over her "empire" thinking that the "heroine" had died.

But ... she didn't die ... what she did do was she had plastic surgery and came back and kicked butt.

Yes?No?

Skarpo
:-)
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  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2007
    That could be any Aussie soap. It's certainly an outlandish enough plotline. :)

    Necros.
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited June 2007
    I think it had something to do with a big mansion also ... and I think the rivals were related somehow. And her hitting the croc's tastebud's wasn't an accident ... I think.
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited June 2007
    Skarpo wrote: »
    Anyone remember this one?

    Don't remember if this was an ongoing soap or just two seasons/series.

    Early on in the show this lady, who owns/runs a beauty-empire of some sorts, gets eaten by a crocodile and her rival illegally takes over her "empire" thinking that the "heroine" had died.

    But ... she didn't die ... what she did do was she had plastic surgery and came back and kicked butt.

    Yes?No?

    Skarpo
    :-)


    Sounds like Aussie mini series Return to Eden

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085079/usercomments
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited June 2007
    Started as a mini-series then became a soap....

    Return to Eden.

    OMG - I shouldn't know that!
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  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited June 2007
    Ah yes! The name of the mansionplacethingy was Eden I think.

    Thanks!
  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited June 2007
    That sounds really crap. I hope Level 9 sued the producers of that series for all they had. :p

    Necros.
  • VanTammenVanTammen
    edited June 2007
    actually since we are talking about old tv series... I believe this one was also aussie, if not, it did take place in Australia, they aired it in Portugal after they aired ANZACS (I loved ANZACS, probably my all time favorite series!) so I must be talking about...88 ou 89... (and since we bought series with some delay, the series might have been done in the early 80's)

    I remember the series was about this poor guy who lived in england (the main actor was blonde...and sort of looked like hugo weaving/sam neil type of guy)...and then one day he saw some picture of a tree in australia and decided to try his luck in there.

    the series cover his entire life, he struglled and eventually became a milionair, but all his kids and grandsons died, and in the last episode he found her granddauther, but she was a nun, so he had no heirs for his fortune... it was a real "epic story" type of thing...

    I've searched IMDB all over for that series, but I can't remember names or actors... does any one have a clue of what this might be?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2007
    Nah! When it comes to Aussie soaps/TV progs you can't beat good ol' Prisoner. Full of butch dykes, bashings, laggers, screws (some with dodgy scottish and yorkshire accents), fe-mullets, girls wearing Boy George make up, bangs, and walls that wobble when the doors and gates get closed, and last but not least Bea Smith, Vinegar tits, and the "THE FREAK!!!".

    Classic Aussie crap at it's very, very best :D
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  • milemile
    edited June 2007
    VanTammen wrote: »
    actually since we are talking about old tv series... I believe this one was also aussie, if not, it did take place in Australia, they aired it in Portugal after they aired ANZACS (I loved ANZACS, probably my all time favorite series!) so I must be talking about...88 ou 89... (and since we bought series with some delay, the series might have been done in the early 80's)

    I remember the series was about this poor guy who lived in england (the main actor was blonde...and sort of looked like hugo weaving/sam neil type of guy)...and then one day he saw some picture of a tree in australia and decided to try his luck in there.

    the series cover his entire life, he struglled and eventually became a milionair, but all his kids and grandsons died, and in the last episode he found her granddauther, but she was a nun, so he had no heirs for his fortune... it was a real "epic story" type of thing...

    I've searched IMDB all over for that series, but I can't remember names or actors... does any one have a clue of what this might be?


    was it 'the dirtwater dynasty'?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095020/
  • ToxitalkToxitalk
    edited June 2007
    A few years a go I saw something I think called The odyssey.

    It takes place when a child falls from a tree, bangs his head and going into his own world. (Children rulling everything etc...)

    I just remember it was a lot of fun and for children well acted.

    Anyone else remember?
  • VanTammenVanTammen
    edited June 2007
    mile wrote: »
    was it 'the dirtwater dynasty'?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095020/


    wow, you found it! I had an idea it was with hugo weaving...but I wasnt exactly sure! it was a really good series!
  • milemile
    edited June 2007
    VanTammen wrote: »
    wow, you found it! I had an idea it was with hugo weaving...but I wasnt exactly sure! it was a really good series!

    yeah it was one of my faves back then. :)
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