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.
♦ Mozart Rules
Season 7, Episode 62, Part 2
1987
A first David's visit to Valley was fleeting and very tragic, because coincided with the saddest series episodes.
According to the plot in the first part of two-series block occurs the next awful accident, and another leading lady, Donna, perishes.
She was a brilliant and outstanding girl. She worked as a nurse in a well-known hospital, liked to listen to rock'n'roll and drive a sport car.
She had a love affair with Doctor Ben Green.
Just in this episode the girl decides to make for her beloved man a party on the occasion of Mozart birthday, whom her boy-friend just adores. She goes to buy a festive cake, but on her way home has an accident. Her car collided with two other cars.
The second part of the episode begins with the scene, when the ambulance service, arrived to the place of crash, put the survived into the car. Just in this scene for the first time David was noticed among the shocked Valley residents.
The role is named "Ambulance man #1"
Number One? Not bad anyway!
Cast:
Shane Porteous ...Dr. Terence Elliott
Lorrae Desmond ...Shirley Dean Gilroy
Brian Wenzel ...Sergeant Frank Gilroy
Diane Smith ...Dr. Alex 'Fraser' Elliott
Caroline Johansson ...Donna Manning
Kate Raison ...Cathy Hayden
Nicholas Bufalo ...Dr. Ben Green
Josephine Mitchell ...Jo 'Loveday' Langley
David Wenham ... Ambulanceman #1
and the others...
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