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Another soap opera from Grundy's, The Restless Years followed a group of teenagers from the end of school to early adulthood: the 'restless years' of the title.
According to Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series,
On paper, The Restless Years should not have worked because the central idea of a group of teenagers and adults variously involved with a kids' refuge was not a particularly strong one. Nevertheless, the series did click with audiences and the program built up a loyal band of viewers who tuned in each evening to watch this tale of lost, confused teenagers and adults. Chief among the latter was the essentially castrating mother played by June Salter.
Mimicking the title of Lesley Stern's article (below), Moran sums up The Restless Years as 'this most Freudian of serials'.
Adaptations
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Goede tijden, slechte tijden
Netherlands
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RTL Nederland
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1990-
21523404
1990
series - publisher
film/TV
This long-running soap opera was an adaptation of Australian soap opera The Restless Years, but diverged from the original's plotlines during its third season.
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form
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Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
Germany
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RTL
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1992-
21523324
1992
series - publisher
film/TV
Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten drew its inspiration from Australian soap opera The Restless Years, especially for its first year's worth of episodes (230 episodes): after this point, it diverged into original storylines.
Notes
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According to Moran, The Restless Years 'was the first local television soap opera to obtain a serious critical analysis'. The paper in question is Lesley Stern's 'Oedipul Opera: The Restless Years', Australian Journal of Screen Theory 4 (1978): 39-48. (Note: Moran, who doesn't provide the full bibliographical reference for Stern's article, mistakenly gives the publication as the Australian Journal of Cultural Studies.)
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Oedipul Opera: The Restless Years
1978
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Screen Theory , vol. 4 no. 1978; (p. 39-48) According to Albert Moran, this was the first serious critical examination of an Australian-made soap opera.
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Oedipul Opera: The Restless Years
1978
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Screen Theory , vol. 4 no. 1978; (p. 39-48) According to Albert Moran, this was the first serious critical examination of an Australian-made soap opera.
