One of the most favourite show of Australian TV, a record-holder and long-liver, had a great success on the TV-screens of Europe, Canada and Hon Kong.
For the whole 13 years a small town Wandin Valley became a home for each Australian, who love a genre of soap opera. And the characters of the soap, doctors of the local hospital and members of their families became national idols.
The series was a good mixture of drama and comedy, attracted the broad audience with characters of different age and well thought-out love suspense and, besides, with an impressive spectrum of vital issues: its episodes for the first time touched upon a subjects of unemployment, suicide, AIDS, rights of aboriginals and etc.
Truth to tell, it was aggravated with all excesses of the typical soap opera, was stretched out so long and in that way to the end there was almost nobody from first characters, the most part of them was perished, as for ladies, they permanently had accidents, which shocked a mass Australian audience.
David, whose screen career began from such experiences, often with a touch of irony recalled his early project. It's no wonder, when we know, that he had occasion to participate in it three times during the years in different guises. (How it is typically for the series of such scale!)
"I made a couple of visits to the Valley", - David will say later with a smile. Let's visit it too.
♦ It's my Part
Season 12, Episodes 59-60
1992
Four years later after the episode with Scott Galbraith, David has made his third and last raid upon the Valley.
To that time Jo Loveday and Michael Langley have been married for a long time and went as far as possible from the town, where there is such an awful accident statistics.
In their absence nobody noticed that the boy, who was once a newly arrived and very funny policeman, now became a local auto mechanic, a very nice boy with a sad story.
This time David's name was Е David.
What could happen to him in the TV-series about the doctors? Naturally, he is ill, incurable ill.
He has a renal failure, which, for any of several reasons can not be remove with an operation.
David keeps an astonishing self-control and philosophic point of view regarding the life. But the life grew dark for him.
A young man is limited in his opportunities and has to be chained for a long time to a medical machine, making a dismal ritual of dialysis.
His desperate attempts to revolt only make the situation worse.
All hospital workers, from doctors to kind nurses (not to mention the audience!) really feel for the boy.
But there are no miracles, sometimes even in the TV-series...
A very touching role.
Cast:
Shane Porteous Dr. ...Terence Elliott
Joyce Jacobs ...Watson
Brian Wenzel ...Sergeant Frank Gilroy
Michelle Pettigrove Sister Kate Bryant
Gavin Harrison ...Hugo Strzelecki
David Wenham ...David Cornish
Anne Looby ... Anna Lacey
and the others
TV- series